Sunday Stealing: By the Book

Welcome to the first Sunday Stealing of December!  Is it just me or has this year flown by. I'm feeling like I just might go to bed tonight and wake up to tomorrow being Christmas.  Time...slow down already!  Ah, well, it is, as my husband says, what it is. We may as well strap in, hold on and enjoy the ride and I am surely enjoying the Christmas season this year. After a few years of not exactly loving Christmas as I learned to adjust to all the changes of children growing up and doing there own things and older family members leaving us, I seem to have my mojo back and am LOVING all things Christmas. So...let's get on with the questions.

Of this week's questions, Bev says:

This was stolen from designindigo, a site which no longer seems to be live.  But we all seem to be readers, so I thought this was fun to do.

1. Do you prefer hardcover, paperback, or Kindle...and why?  They all have their purposes and moments...I keep books I want to read, but not keep on my Nook so they aren't stacked up around the house...paperbacks are smaller and lighter for taking to work or on vacation and it's not such a big deal if they get messed up...and hardcover books are great for collecting. If I had to choose only one form, though, it would be hardcover. There is just something about holding a book in my hands...the weight of it, the smell of the pages (be they freshly printed or old and musty), the soft whisper of a turning page, it's an experience of the senses.

2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it ...Buy the Book or Bookaholic.

3. My favorite quote from a book (mention the title) is ... “Success is doing well when everyone thought that you would not. I am a success.” ― Patricia Wood, Lottery.

4. The author (alive or dead) I would love to have lunch with would be ... James Rollins or Janet Evanovich. He is brilliant and would be very interesting to discuss things with and I think she would be hilarious.

5. If I was going to a deserted island and could only bring one book, except for the SAS survival guide, it would be ... the Holy Bible. There is so much in there and I see something new every time I read it. And as a book it has everything...drama, comedy, deception, betrayal, adventure, love, wars, and more.

6. I would love someone to invent a bookish gadget that ... automatically restores and repairs old or damaged books.

7. The smell of an old book reminds me of .... history and times past.

8. If I could be the lead character in a book (mention the title), it would be.... I think it would be fun to be Stephanie Plum in Janet Evanovich's By the Numbers series. At least for a little while. I don't know that I'd like to be her forever as I like my quiet, down times and Stephanie doesn't seem to ever have any of those.

9. The most over-rated book of all time is.... Frankenstein. I've tried to read it several times. I just cannot get into it. Not at all.

10. I hate it when a book.... has an end that leaves me hanging.  I like neat endings, even in a series. Which, by the way, I kind of have a love/hate thing with series. I love the books, but I HATE waiting for the next book in a series.