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I saw this awesome tag on Getting Through Anxiety a couple days ago!

You know me, I love anything that deals with books!

The New York Times is also close to my heart. I was born in NYC. I get the NYT news alerts to my email. I did my college internship with a division of the NYT, the Shared Services Center in Norfolk, Virginia!

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Okay – Here we go!

Questions:

What book is on your nightstand right now?

• I currently do not have a nightstand in our bedroom (Still moving!) Haha. So, I’ll go with the book on my living room couch – “The One and Only: A Maryellen Classic 1.” I’m absolutely hooked on the BeForever series from American Girl!

If you could meet one author (living or dead) who would it be? What would you ask?

• Tough question! I’d love to meet F. Scott Fitzgerald, since he wrote my favorite book. I’d ask him if he had a timeline or structure for writing and editing his works. I’ve written parts of three novels, but I haven’t mapped out the time to edit them!

What books might we be surprised to see on your shelf?

• Maybe all of Nicholas Sparks’s novels? I studied the perceptions of love and romance of female readers of his novels for my college senior thesis, so I re-read them all in prep for my research and study.

How do you organize your personal library?

• Right now, my huge bookcase is still at my parents’ house. I’m pretty picky – I try to organize everything by author, and then everything in the order of that author’s publication. I may reorganize it better when we move said bookcase into our house!

What book have you always meant to read but haven’t gotten round to yet?

• Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. It’s one of several on my 2016 Reading Challenge!

Disappointing, overrated, just not good: what book did you feel you were supposed to like but didn’t?

• The Divergent series. Thinking about all of them, it was a let-down.

What kind of stories are you drawn to?

• Historical fiction, definitely. I love the Dear America series in particular.
• Human interest stories (Think Chicken Soup for the Soul, etc.)
• Certain crime novels.

What do you plan to read next?

• Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee.

I Tag…

1. booksandbakes1 – Charley
2. Sallyporte
3. Becky Due – Author
4. Thrice Read – Jenn, Caitlynn, and Eden
5. Jay Colby

Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂