Sunday Stealing~~Books

Good morning!! today I am  linking up with Bev and the other thieves for Sunday Stealing.  

                  THis week Bev says  

"This is a set of book questions I found a long time ago on A Striped Armchair, which had not posted since 2015. " 

1. Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?  I saw this answer on another's  list of answers and I have to agree... It would be something on Oprah's  Book Club List.. I am not a fan of her  mainly because of her  stance on many topics..  but to  honestly be fair. I do not follow any book club lists  for that matter...  

2. If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be?   I would love to host a tea  and invite Margaret Hale,  Elizabeth Bennett, and Jo March   for  a Valentine Tea.  I would love to hear their  discussions about their  significant others!!!

3. You are told you can't die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for awhile, eventually you realize it's past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave?  Great Expectations , for me  was  not that great!!

4. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you've read, when in fact you've been nowhere near it?  I tried to read the Return of the Native, but ended up having to do Cliff notes!  Unbearable!!!

5. As an addition to the last question, has there been a book that you really thought you had read, only to realize when you read a review about it/go to 'reread' it that you haven't? Which book?  I found a hard cover  copy of  AJ Cronin's book, Shannon's Way  on my grandmothers  book shelf and I  read it one summer and fell in love with it..  as a teen...  and I remembered it being a favorite book for  many years...  until a few years ago I ran across the book again and  I tried to  reread it and I was surprised  by it.. I wouldnt have thought in a million years that I would have loved it so much...  I   couldnt get into it and    just put it  away.  Rather disappointing!

6. You've been appointed Book Advisor to a VIP (who's not a big reader). What's the first book you'd recommend and why? If my job depended on it  not knowing the  person very well, I would  probably  recommend  William Bennett's,  The Book of Virtues, or Eric Metaxas's, book 7 Men.. Both are great character building books!

7. A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with? I saw this answer on another's post and I also must agree  to know the Hebrew or Greek Lexicon to  more fully understand the Bible texts!.

8. A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread once a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick?  Any one of Lynn Kurland's books..  I  have actually done that  as it is, because I just love her time travel books and have  read  many of them several times..  

9. What's one bookish thing you 'discovered' from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)? At the risk of sounding fairly ignorant here, I haven't a clue what to write... I  don't do book blogging  or  reviews   as my time these days is spent mainly doing   Bible study and reading  spiritual books .. At this time I have

about a dozen new books  screaming at me to be read, and I just  haven't had the time to get into them!

10. That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she's granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leatherbound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favourite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free. May I borrow a vision from the  Beast's Library that he gave to Belle...   

Everything would be  ordered by topic, genre, and author's name... the reference  section would include  ancient books that shed  light  on  Old and New Testament history. In my  fairy tale library  all of my  favorite  paper back books,  especially  Kurland's and  Gabaldon's,  would be first edition  hard cover...  I particularly love to hold a hard bound book in my hands. None of my books would be shelved lower than my waist..  I get a headache searching low shelves for books!