55 Question Book-Related Survey - Paper

I miss bookish surveys.. So I decided to revive old @ImzadiRose swap.

Answer 55 questions (no one word answers please) and send your partner through snail-mail. I think it would be better to type and print the answers; of course you can write them down too, but please keep it readable for your partner

55 Book Related Questions.

(I changed some questions from the original swap)

1. Favorite childhood book? (Why is that one your favorite?)

2. What are you reading right now? (What are your thoughts on it so fa?)

3. Do you go to a library? If so, what do you currently have checked out there? (If you don't use library, what are the 5 books you purchased lately?)

4. Do you collect any authors/series or certain types of books? What are they?

5. Do you have a yearly goal on amount of books you want to finish? What is it? Are you ahead of, or behind in your progress?

6. "Real" books, audio books or e-books? Explain your preference.

7. Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once? Why?

8. Do you have a blog or GoodReads where you post reviews? If so, give your URL ~ if not a one word answer IS ok here.

9. What sites, if any, do you go to for getting recommendations of books? If you don't use any sites, how do you get recommendations for new books?

10. Favorite book you’ve read this year (so far in 2017)? Why?

11. Least favorite book you read this year (so far in 2017)? Why?

12. Book due to be released this year (2017) that you are most looking forward to and why?

13. What is your reading comfort zone? Favorite place to read?

14. Bad book habit?

15. What are your thoughts on book lending?

16. What are your thoughts on pirated books?

17. What are barriers you have to reading more? (work, family, ect)

18. What makes you love a book?

19. What will inspire you to recommend a book?

20. 5 of your top read genres & one recommended book for each genre.

21. 5 authors you read a lot & one book you recommend for each.

22. Do you read non-fiction? Biographies? What is one of your favorites? If you don't read them, what keeps you from them?

23. How many times do you read a week? How many hours a day?

24. Do you feel you read better with or without noise? What kind of noise can't you read through?

25. What influences your book choices?

26. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience?

27. Do you eat/drink while reading, or do you put the book down for snacks? If you do mix books and food: favorite reading snack? Favorite reading drink?

28. Do you literally judge a book by its cover, title, or author?

29. What is the longest book you have ever read? The shortest?

30. How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews?

31. Do you make up stories, or ever think about an alternate ending for a book because you want to?

32. How often do you agree with critics about a book?

33. What book do you try to steer people away from?

34. What book do you recommend most to others?

35. Do you ever re-read books? How many times have you re-read a favorite? If you don't re-read books, why not?

36. Favorite fictional character and why?

37. Favorite fictional villain and why?

38. Favorite fictional love story?

39. Books I’m most likely to bring on vacation?

40. The longest you’ve gone without reading?

41. Name a book that you could/would not finish and why you couldn't?

42. What distracts you easily when you’re reading?

43. Favorite film/TV adaptation of a novel?

44. Most disappointing film/TV adaptation?

45. The most money you’ve ever spent in the bookstore/app at one time?

46. How often do you skim a book before reading it? Do you check out the ending?

47. What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?

48. Do you like to keep your books organized?

49. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them?

50. Name a book that made you angry. Why did it?

51. A book you didn’t expect to like but did?

52. A book that you expected to like but didn’t?

53. Favorite guilt-free, pleasure reading?

54. Have your reading habits changed in last years? How? What influenced the change?

55. Favorite tropes? Tropes you avoid at all costs?

Have fun!