Interview with Parenthetical
I got a lovely chance to interview Sam @ Parenthetical. I will be returning the favor soon and doing an interview for her but she was very thoughtful enough to answer these questions with some very interesting answers.
I hope that you like the interview and please check out her amazing blog some time.
Thank you Sam for taking the time to answer these questions.
These didn’t all come out this year, I don’t think, but that’s when I read them:
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor
All These Things I’ve Done, by Gabrielle Zevin The Shattering, by Karen Healey Teenie, by Christopher Grant Five Flavors of Dumb, by Antony John
I don’t! I grew up with cats and dogs, but at this point I’m too allergic to the former and not home enough for the latter. I’m looking for the magical pet that basically takes care of itself, cuddles with me, and doesn’t make me sneeze. I’m pretty sure “stuffed animal” is the answer.
Ooh. It used to be cheese and crackers, because I love how the cheese half-melts in the heat. But I can’t eat cheese anymore. So this summer it was corn chips and guacamole, which is also delicious.
I would choose any way of communicating with the outside world. Even if it doesn’t help me get off the island, I’d want my laptop and a satellite hookup. And a battery crank. If I were stranded on the island with a group of people I liked, then I would chill a little about the communication and ask for: sunscreen, really good cookies, a copy of Rise Up Singing for entertaining ourselves around the campfire, notebooks, and pens.
I’ve been fortunate enough to get to meet most of my favorite authors! Being a YA blogger and librarian in a major city is a pretty great gig, author-meeting-wise. So I’ll have to pick H. M. Hoover, with whose children’s sci-fi novels I was obsessed when I was a kid. I read her books over and over and used to dream about meeting her. Wikipedia says she’s still alive, at 76, so it could still happen!
Most of my favorite books are not at all places I’d want to live. I mean, who wants to live in Panem? But Green Gables sounds nice, as does Mary Russell‘s turn-of-the-century England.
Heavenly Creatures
Office Space I Capture the Castle all 7 seasons of Buffy (does that count as a movie?) all 5 seasons of Friday Night Lights (ditto)I am much more a TV person than a movie person.
Fun question! My friend, who is an editor, posts her favorites on Facebook regularly, but I’m drawing a blank. I’ll admit to being a sucker for Ally Carter’s punny Gallagher Girls titles: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover, etc. Louise Rennison also wins at titles: Startled by His Furry Shorts, Love Is a Many Trousered Thing, etc.
Reindeer. Or alligator. Both were made into sausage (in Alaska and New Orleans, respectively), so they pretty much just tasted like sausage. I’m also pretty sure I’ve eaten all kinds of odd things at dim sum, but I didn’t know what I was eating, so who knows?
A house in my (urban, very pricey) hometown of Somerville, MA — a couple of bedrooms, a nice big kitchen, walking distance to the subway, but with enough sunny yard space for a mini-farm. That’s so expensive it probably eats up my other 4 expensive things, but while we’re dreaming I’d like: to endow a college scholarship for students at the GED school where I tutor, a New Zealand vacation, a nice big gift certificate to one of my favorite fancy restaurants, and… it’s boring, but I’d want to finish paying for the expensive thing I already did: grad school.
The mansion. I’m all set with just spending a few days a year at the beach, really. And in the mansion I could probably cook my own food, which would make me a lot happier!
Lots of episodes of This American Life that I need to catch up on.
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