Hi, YouTube, it's Kathy, and I'm here to do
the 52 Nifty Bookish Questions Tag.
I was recently tagged to do this by Shawn
the Book Maniac, so I'll link his video down below.
Yes, this tag has 52 questions,
and some of these questions have, like,
either/ors that I don't know either of
them, so I can't answer them, and then
some of them I only know one of the two
authors or whatever it is that's mentioned,
so that will be a default
answer. What I'm gonna try to go through
these as quickly as possible. I haven't
done any prep whatsoever besides
watching Shawn's video, and Shawn did this
as the Tipsy Edition. It is a little too
early in the day for me to be having
booze - I haven't even eaten yet - so
instead, I suppose, this is the Tea
Edition.
Number one is: what book are you reading right now? Currently I'm listening to the audiobook The Untold
Story of Talking Books. This is an audio
book about audio books because I'm that type of nerd.
Two is: what is the last
thing you highlighted? And I probably
haven't highlighted anything since
University, and I probably wouldn't have
highlighted directly in a book. You know
how it - sometimes in classes they, like,
print out the short stories you're
supposed to read, instead of making you
buy the whole collection? I probably
would have highlighted something like
that, but I don't highlight in books.
Number three is: what do you plan to read next?
And I have this TBR for
Contemporaryathon, which by the time this
tag goes up, I will have already
completed, but I'm clearly filming this ahead of time.
Number four is: one fiction writer living or dead with which you would like to grab a drink?
Let's go with Jen Campbell.
Jen Campbell seems like a lovely lass.
I'm not entirely sure if she drinks but
we can have a coffee. We could have a tea. That's fine. You don't have to drink alcohol to grab a drink.
Number five is: one nonfiction writer living or dead you would love to grab a drink with?
And that I believe would have to be Mary Roach.
Mary Roach writes hilarious nonfiction
and I would love to drink with her.
Number six is: one poet living or dead
with which you'd like to grab a drink?
I don't read a lot of poetry, and I already
mentioned Jen. This is terrible.
Let's go with Amanda Lovelace.
Number seven is:
one BookTuber with which you'd like to grab a drink?
And I can't. I can't do one. No.
There's so many people I would love to
grab a drink with. I mean, it's just a given that
I would love to grab a drink with
everyone I met at BookNet Fest because,
well, we already drank it together.
I'd love to grab a drink with Adriana
from Oerpetual Pages, Cece from Problems of
a Book Nerd, Jean from Bookish Thoughts.
Like, there are just so many people that, given the chance, we should have a drink and talk about books.
Here's the section
where it's either/or, so some of these
I'm gonna have to skip. But let's see
what we do.
Eight is: Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allan Poe? 
Edgar Allan Poe.
Nine is Hemingway or Fitzgerald?
Haven't read either of them.
Ten is Jane Austen and Dickens?
I tried to read Dickens - didn't get past
the first page. Also don't really like
Jane Austen, so I abstained from this one.
Number 11 is Harris or Hitchens? 
I don't know who these people are.
Twelve this Stephen King or Michael Crichton?
 Stephen King.
[Thirteen] is Bret Easton Ellis or Chuck Palahniuk? Palin... him. Fight Club.
Fourteen is Kurt Vonnegut or John Green?
John Green.
Fifteen is Shakespeare's poems or plays? 
Plays.
Sixteen is Adrian Fort or Dalton Gentry? 
Don't know who these people are.
Seventeen is Cormac McCarthy or JK Rowling?
I guess Rowling.
Eighteen is Hannibal Lecter or Voldemort? 
Hannibal Lecter.
Nineteen is TC Boyles or George Saunders?
 I DNF'd the only George Saunders I tried to
read and I don't know who TC Boyle is, so
abstain.
[Twenty] is good writing or good story?
Ah, both. I have enjoyed books that don't
really go anywhere plot wise as long as
I love the characters. Take from that way
you will.
Twenty-one is YA or children's?
YA.
Irony or humour?
Irony.
Sci-fi or horror?
Horror.
Fantasy or non fiction?
Fantasy.
Twenty-five is rather find a new favourite
contemporary writer or a new favourite
old-time great? Contemporary, for sure. We
all know by this point that I don't like classics.
Sonnet or haiku?
Haiku.
Sistina or villanelle? 
I don't know what either of those things mean.
Spend an evening at a library or a bookstore?
Library.
Magazine or Wikipedia article?
Wikipedia.
Dictionary or encyclopedia?
Dictionary.
The writer I would want to write my biography?
Mary Roach doesn't write biographies,
otherwise I said say her.
Ooh let's go with Erik Larson.
Thirty-two is I do or do not
highlight my books.
As previously discussed ,I don't highlight my books.
Thirty-three: I also don't write in my books.
Thirty-four: earliest memory of a library? I spent a
lot of my time in libraries but the
weird thing about me is I didn't really
remember anything before like age 10 so
age 10 I definitely visited my local
library a lot.
Thirty-five is last time you were in a library? Yesterday, because I work there.
Have you ever stolen or accidentally
stolen books from the library? No!
Thirty-seven: ballpark - how many books do you own? 
I think it's around 300.
Thirty-eight is how many books you think would make for a reasonable personal library?
As many as you got damn well want.
Thirty-nine is: so there's Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -
how do you feel those phenomenon?
Zombies didn't make Pride and Prejudice any more appealing to me. I tried to read it. Also DNF'd it.
I liked the idea of adding these
fantastical things into classics but I
still don't like reading the classics.
Number 40 is: horror trope you would like
to see getting more love? I'm always a
fan of the twists that happen in horror.
You think it's gonna be this one person,
and then there's a twist, and then if
there's a further twist, that's what I prefer. I don't know what to call that trope but we'll go with that.
Forty-one is something you think it's underutilized in 
sci-fi?
I think actually explaining
the science or what the science kind of
looks like gets underutilized now, but it
depends. You have to walk a really fine
line with that because if you get too too
science-y, the people like me, who are not
exactly science literate, will get
confused or skip parts and then they
might miss things that are important,
because obviously with science fiction
it's oftentimes things that we don't
actually have and we won't actually have
because science actually doesn't back it
up, but putting more hypothesis,
I supposed, into the science fiction, maybe?
Number 42 is: flash fiction - form of and format of literature or it's just a short story, dummy?
I don't know what flash fiction is.
Forty-three: if you could own one
book from all of history, what would it be?
Let's go with the bibliophile cop-out
answer of something from Alexandria.
For forty-four, audiobooks - same as reading? 
Yes.
Actually, interestingly enough I'm listening to
that book right now all about audio books,
and I was already pro audio book - it's
obviously
same thing as reading. It can be done in
a passive way, depending on how you read
your audio books, and there has been this
whole debate since audio books started
about whether or not the person
consuming them is doing the reading,
because I can read a classic and get
nothing out of it when I read it with my
eyeballs, because I don't understand
what's going on, and I could read a
classic as an audio book and get more out
of it because the inflection of the
narrator or whatfor helps my brain figure
out what the crap this author is trying
to say. So just like how I could run my
eyeballs over the text of a page and not really read it closely, I could do the same
thing with audio books. But on the flip side, I can read a page closely and get a lot of it and I can listen to
something closely and get a lot out of it. So yes,
audio books are reading.
Forty-five is the most literary songwriter of your time?
I don't listen to a lot of music so instead of
actually answering this question, I'm
going to tell you to go check out Joey Clarkson,
who writes some very great
music. I'll link her down below.
And also a local band, West My Friend, because
they're fantastic. I'll also link them down below.
Number 46 is what writer embarrasses you the most because you haven't read them?
I am NOT embarrassed by my reading choices.
How about this? For this one, list some
popular authors down below and I'll let
you know whether or not I've read them.
Number 47 is what writer embarrasses you the most because you've read too much of them?
Again, not embarrassed by any of my reading choices.
Number 48 is what is a
biography you're looking forward to reading?
Huh. Who's had a super interesting life that should have a biography that I should read?
I mean I've heard really good things about Michelle Obama's autobiography,
so let's just go with that. I don't know when I'll get to it, but probably eventually.
Forty-nine is:
do you have a dream reading cubby?
Basically anywhere that I'm surrounded
by books and there's cozy things.
I don't have, like, a Pinterest board of all of
the aspects I need for that. I'm pretty
easy to be content as long as I have a
book and I'm cozy.
Fifty is last literary phenomenon that really got your gears grinding?
[weird noise] I honestly don't really know what to say about this one.
Does Soapdickgate count as a phenomenon?
Because there was, you know, the fact that
they were sending phallic soap to
teenagers, but also the fact that they
were basically selling fanfiction which
I understand is illegal, so let's go with that.
Fifty-one is what is the last piece of literature that changed the way you read?
And I don't understand how to quantify this question so I'm gonna skip it.
And 52 is what BookTuber have you been watching most recently?
I watch a variety of people. Basically, I just go through my feed and if I see somebody's video that
I really want to watch, I watch it immediately.
Obviously because Contemporaryathon either, in my timeline right now is just about to happen,
or as you're watching this has just finished, I've probably watched a lot of Meltotheany, Chelsea Dolling Reads,
My Reading is Odd, and Pages and Pens, so
let's just go with that before I just
start listing all of the BookTubers,
because I follow a lot of them.
And that's it! I made it through 52 questions,
and I had answers for I want to say at
least half of them. Thanks again to Shawn
for tagging me. If you've watched this
tag and haven't done this tag, consider
yourself tagged. Yes I'm lazy like that.
What is the answer that surprised you the most? 
Let me know down in the comments below.
On the way down with the
comments, if you hit that Subscribe
button that would be very nice of you.
You can like and share this as you see
fit and I will see you very soon.
Bye!
[outro music]
