#mayhaps you'll recognise that cover because it also happens to be my icon

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D, I, J, X

Thank you!!

Edit: It has been brought to my attention that this says “X” and not “K”. Well, five questions for the price of four.

Ask me book related questions from A-Z!

D: What book do you hate that most others love?

I wouldn’t say most others love it because I know quite a few people who don’t but I really didn’t like SJM’s A Throne of Glass. It’s one of the first books I stopped reading because of the terrible writing style.

I: Do you have a favorite poet?

For now, it’s Emily Dickinson! My favourite Dickinson poem is “If I can stop one heart from breaking” because I’d love to look at life that way.

I say “for now” because I am a fickle person as I read more poetry, this is pretty much bound to change.

J: Favorite woman writer?

Jean Rhys! I’m actually writing my bachelor thesis on women in her books (or loneliness - haven’t quite decided yet)

K: Favorite male writer?

If you expected me to say Oscar Wilde you’re out of luck because I gotta say Rick Riordan. For a long time, I refused to read Percy Jackson (mostly because a first person narrator can be incredibly jarring in German) but once I did, I devoured the original Percy Jackson books, Heroes of Olympus, and Magnus Chase within a few weeks. He’s doing a lot of good with his books and I wish my English had been good enough to read them in middle school.

X: What book has your favourite cover art?

I spent almost an hour writing a long-winded answer to this question but tumblr fucking ate it so now you’ll have to make do with a list of links.

Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tennant of Wildfell Hall

Jane Eyre, Pride and Predjudice, Sense and Sensibility (in German, I don’t own these but they were to pretty not to be included)

The Bronte Sisters - Three Novels (I also don’t own this but when I first saw this I almost cried)

The Picture of Dorian Gray 

The Picture of Dorian Gray (which I don’t own)

The Song of Achilles

I’d be amiss not to include Wie schreibe ich meine Briefe? (How do I write my letters?) which is not only one of the prettiest books I own but also one of the oldest: It’s from the 1890s!