Literary Junkies Link Party

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Hello Fellow Book Lovers! It’s the 3rd Tuesday of the month…Literary Junkies Link Party Day!! And Literary Junkies Book Club Twitter party (tonight at 7pm CST). A time where all our fellow book lovers get together and share our love and joy of books!

Grab our button, grab the questions below, write your post and link up with us!!

The Literary Junkies Hosts:

December’s Co-Host: Cassie from Live.Laugh.L0ve

This month’s questions:
1. If you could write a book, what would it be about?
2. If you had to read one book or trilogy for the rest of your life, what would it be?
3. Who is your current favorite book character and why?
4. Is there a book you read every year during the holiday season? If so, what is it and why?
5. Do you have any books on your Christmas list? Name a few.
6. What is a book you read and loved that you didn’t expect to?

Here are my answers….

First up…what I’m reading:

I started on our January Literary Junkies book club read. So far so good. You should join us!

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarity

Goodreads.com Synopsis:
The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.

Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.

For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.

Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s,’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.

1. If you could write a book, what would it be about?
I think I would write something similar to the style of Mary Kay Andrews. Chick lit with a little bit of mystery.

2. If you had to read one book or trilogy for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Hands down, Diana Gabaldon. Each book is over 1500 pages long with super fine print. It would keep me busy for a long, long time. 🙂

3. Who is your current favorite book character and why?
Kinsey Milhone from Sue Grafton’s Alphabet Murder Mystery series.

4. Is there a book you read every year during the holiday season? If so, what is it and why?
No. I have too many books on my to read shelves to re-read a book each year. 😉 There are plenty that I would love to re-read if my list wasn’t exponentially growing. lol

5. Do you have any books on your Christmas list? Name a few.
None on my Christmas list. If you could see my to-read list you’d understand why I don’t have any on my Christmas list. lol

6. What is a book you read and loved that you didn’t expect to?
Ohh this is hard!!! I definitely judge a book by it’s cover so most of the time I expect to like a book. Being in 2 book clubs has definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone. Someone Else’s Love Story
by Joshilyn Jackson was a pleasant surprise.The Girl You Left Behind
by Jojo Moyes was also a pleasant surprise.

Now it’s your turn! Link up your Literary Junkies post below (make sure it’s your actual post and not a link to your blog home page). I want to see how you answer the above questions! 🙂