Ruler of Books Tag

This tag was created by Ariel Bissett!

If you were the Ruler of Books…

1. What book would you make everyone read?

As much as I would love to make everyone read a few of my favourite books I have found from school that forcing people to read books causes resentment, prevents book enjoyment and leads to people skimming out on the book.  Plus with more people that might not typically read my favourite book reading my favourite book there would be too many people dissing it and/or the author and that is not something I can handle.

However, while writing that paragraph I just realised there is one book that I might actually want everyone to read: The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker, or something similar to that in the hope that it would make people more aware of their instincts and hopefully save a few lives.

2. What would you abolish in book construction?

Maps on the inside covers.  When it’s your own book it’s a handy place to put it, but in library books it always gets covered by the fancy laminating process the dust jacket goes through so you can never see the dang map!  Instead I would make all books that have maps to have a fold out page so you can look at it while reading if you so choose, while also making the mag page easy to find, if you don’t want to do it that way.

3. What author would you commission to write you any book?

See, the authors I want to write more books are currently doing it, and those that are not currently writing books I wouldn’t want to force it.  Though I would like to see what else Kristin Cashore would write.  

4. What book would you demote to the library basement to make room for new books?

Only demote to the basement?  I’m the ruler of books and thus will go even further and destroy the book: 50 shades & Co by E.L. James.

5. What cover artist would you commission to make a mural?

Uhhh…maybe Keith Parkinson?  Though he has passed on, so perhaps the man who took over from him in illustrating the Green Rider series, Donato Giancola. 

6. What characters face would you put on a coin?

I feel like putting the Trickster’s face on the coinage of the Ruler of Books land would be an interesting experiment (from the Trickster’s series by Tamora Pierce) 

7. What book would you award the “Ruler of Books” 2016 Prize to?

I can’t pick just one so I won’t.  But if it’s the best book read in 2016 so far that would be Epic by Conor Kostick. 

 

 

Epic Reads book Tag

I saw this so I decided to do it.  As I do with almost all tags. 

1. If you could invite one author and one of their fictional characters for tea who would you invite and what would you serve?

So I’m one that would never actually want to have dinner/tea with my favourite author because I wouldn’t really know what to say to them.  I also want to just be mean and have say E.L. James in the same room as Christian Grey and watch what happens.  For this epic even I would serve potato salad because its the best.

2. What would you love a prequel for and what would be the main storyline?

I would love to hear more about how Kel’s parents (from the Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce) became ambassadors to the Yamani Islands.  Make it a series to, please!

3. Which two characters not from the same book would make a great book couple?

It is literally impossible for me to ship non-text supported couples or relationships as I am on the asexual scale of things. 

4. If you ran into your favourite author on the subway and could only say one sentence to them, what would you say?

Thank you. 

5. What book made you a reader and why?

First Test, book 1 of the Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce.  This is the first book I remember reading outside of the classroom even though I know I was a reader before this series.  This book made me more so.  It was perfect for me: it had a lead character that was so much like me facing bullying, medieval times stuff (still don’t know if this book sparked my love of knights and swords and castles or if I was interested in it beforehand), fantasy, unique creatures, a sort of boarding school vibe and much more good stuff. 

6. If your bookshelf was caught on fire which book would you save?

Sadly, my Master’s thesis should likely be my first thing because that monster was expeeeeeensive to have bound, but there are a number of hard to get and nostalgia books on there that I would want to grab as well. 

7. Which dystopian world would you want to live in?

Hmmm toughy.  I think even though I didn’t like the book, the future world of Ready Player One by Ernst Cline because the virtual reality part is really interesting.  Though the 80’s references would kill me.  Thought lets be real, I can think of like 4 dystopian settings off the top of my head atm so the list to pick from is small. 

8. What is your most epic read of all time?

I can’t pick just one book and no one is going to make me!