Book Blogger Hop/Follow Friday/TGIF

Another Friday means fun book blogger networking and visiting and following and etc. so let's get to it!





This week's hop question:


Let’s talk crazy book titles! Highlight one or two (or as many as you like!) titles in your personal collection that have the most interesting titles! If you can’t find any, feel free to find one on the internet!

I have to say that Haruki Murakami has some great crazy book titles, such as:

A Wild Sheep Chase
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

And of course sci-fi type books often have interesting/crazy titles, such as:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

That's it for my personal collection, I know there are more out there!







This week's question:

How have your reading habits changed since you were a teen? or if you are still a teen what new genres are you in love with currently?

I am not still a teen (and haven't been one for a while, yikes!), but my reading habits have changed quite a bit over the years. When I was a teen I was more into fantasy and sci-fi books, and loved any kind of story with dragons, and now for some reason I can't handle books with dragons and I'm not much drawn to fantasy or sci-fi, although I guess that Jasper Fforde and sometimes Haruki Murakami, among other authors I like, fit into the fantasy category. I was also more forgiving of clunky writing - or maybe there was much less of it in years past?

So I guess in reality my tastes have gotten more "literary" and  I have lost patience with what I think is poor writing. I'm not a book snob or anything, and I will always read anything that seems interesting to me, but I just prefer good writing in general and try to stick with books that fit that description regardless of genre.

Here's a new blog follow I've been meaning to try - I can't find the code for the follow button but here is the blog button so you can find it. It's the TGIF Book Follow Friday at GReads.

This week's question: 

Author Block Party: If you could gather a handful of authors to hang out with, who would you choose? 

I love these questions! There are so many authors I'd love to hang out with. I'm going to go for it and also include authors who are dead, since this is a fantasy anyhow:

Christopher Buehlman

Haruki Murakami

Jasper Fforde

Kazuo Ishiguro

Graham Greene

William Shakespeare

M.T. Anderson

Bill Bryson

James Thurber

Mark Twain

Anne Frank

Nat M. Wills

Who's on your guest list?