Sunday Stealing: BOOKS!

I'm linking up with Bev and the other thieves for Sunday Stealing, and of this week's questions, 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?  Virtually anything that was a featured read of Oprah's Book Club. I read a couple of them over the years and found them plodding, often pretentious, and rather boring. I tend to assume they all are and that's probably not a fair assessment but I can't talk myself out of it.

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 think, just for fun, I'd want Stephanie Plum, Lula, and Grandma Mazur for a girls' night out.

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 realise it's past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave?  Frankenstein. I've tried more than once to read it. I just can't.

4. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you've read, when in fact you've been nowhere near it?  There were a few that were required reading back in the day, but the only one I remember at all is Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham. I wrote an A+ college level paper on it without having read it. I have since read it. Just so you know.

5. As an addition to the last question, has there been a book that you really thought you had read, only to realise when you read a review about it/go to 'reread' it that you haven't? Which book?  I can't think of one. I'm much more inclined to have read something and forgotten I have.

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?  I couldn't begin to guess without knowing the person. I would need to know their interests and likes, the kind of characters that draw them in movies, things like that...and then I could point them to a book that would interest them.

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?  Hebrew or Greek so I could fully understand the original Bible text.

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?  Little Women. I read it ever few years as it is so I'm sure I could manage to read it every year.

9. What's one bookish thing you 'discovered' from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)?  I discovered that many publishers will give you free books to review. In most cases all you have to do is ask 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.  It has a few big floor to ceiling windows, a fireplace, the walls are covered with floor to ceiling bookshelves and there is a rolling ladder to reach those books on the upper shelves. The furniture is classic and comfortable, there is a desk and a big work table. Plenty of side tables by every seat to stack books on. There'd be lots of plants and everything would be done in rich woods and muted autumn colors. The books would be of a wide variety....anything and everything that interests me. There would be a well stocked reference section and a collection of first editions and signed editions.