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#Fiction Friday: Austentacious Literature



Welcome to  #FictionFriday, where we ask Yeovil College staff to share their thoughts, opinions and just plain random tastes in books.
Each staff member selects questions to answer from a finely honed and crafted selection, designed to entertain and educate us about their reading lives.

 
Today we're talking to Katy Limmer.

Katy is an English lecturer and she can often be found perusing books in the library, talking animatedly about everything literary, or flicking through a copy of Empire magazine (she also specializes in film studies).Katy is a panelist for the YCAA and Waterstones Man Booker evening, so we knew that she would have lots to say about reading and literature!
And her Hogwarts House is Ravenclaw, making them a very well represented House amongst the faculty at Yeovil College thus far.


What's the first book you remember reading, or being read?

"Ladybird Cinderella."

What is your favourite book of all time?


"Jane Austen - Persuasion."


Name one book or author that you really can't stand

 "Ian McEwan - especially Enduring Love."

 Which character in a book do you think is most like you?

"Anne of Green Gables!"

Which book would you love to be in or live inside its world?

"Any Sherlock Holmes adventure."

Which literary character would you want to date, and why?

 "Dr. Faustus - the devil granted him all his wishes - obviously I wouldn't go to Hell with him at the end!"

What's the most over-rated book?

 "I really don't get Catcher in the Rye"

 What's your favourite book adaptation in film or TV?

 "Joe Wright's 'Pride and Prejudice' (2005)"

Would you read the book before watching an adaptation, and does it matter?


 "I do like to read it first, but it doesn't really matter. I've read lots of great books after watching them."

 Who is the best villain in a novel?

"Count Fosco in Wilkie Collins' 'The Woman in White' ; immensely fat with white mice."

What's your favourite children's book?

"Ursula K Le Guin 'Wizard of Earthsea'."

What book would you recommend to someone else, and why?

 "'Never Let me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro - it's one of the most intensely moving books I've ever read."

 Who's your favourite cartoon character?

 "Totoro" (from the Studio Ghibli film, "My Neighbour Totoro")

 Who would play you in a film of your life?


"Patricia Hodge? According to my children!" (classic British actress who now appears on "Miranda")

If you were to describe yourself as a type of cake, what would it be?

 "Coffee and walnut - not to everyone's taste!"



Where is your favourite place to read?

"In bed, or on a sun lounger on holiday."

Thanks Katy! If your idea of reading bliss is also Jane Austen on a sun lounger, or you'd like to comment (nicely) below, log in with your Google account and join the conversation.
Alternatively, you can always tweet us at @YC_Reading using the hashtag #FictionFriday with what you think of Katy's choices!

Comments

  1. bookworm2517 October 2017 at 09:30

    I agree that Ian McEwan is overrated and Catcher in the Rye is one I read when I was younger, I hardly remember it so obviously not that impactive. A fellow Anne...'tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it...yet.'

    Wizard of Earthsea has been on my 'to read' list for a very long time, I feel it is time I indulged.

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