reading highlights

A reading questionnaire I picked somewhere I cannot remember, a while ago, and filled in the lazy days after X’mas… Could have substituted each entry with dozens of others.

1. Your first memorable reading experience : La Panthère Blanche (a pre-1960 children book about an albinos jaguar in the Amazonia I kept reading as a kid, and then I switched to compulsive bi-yearly reads of David Copperfield…)
2.  Your hidden masterpiece : Kent’s Burial Rites
3. An official masterpiece you could not complete : Melville’s Moby Dick (too much technical jargon)
4. A writer you would dream to meet : Patrick Rothfuss (so that I could hear the end of the trilogy!), Karen Blixen, Victor Hugo, many others
5. A favourite writer you would rather not meet : Louis Céline (definitely not a favourite person!)
6. A book you would like to be the main character : Zeno in Yourcenar’s L’Œuvre au Noir (The Abyss)
7. A book you offer by default : Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
8. A book that makes you laugh out loud : Paasilina’s The Year of the Hare
9. A book you would rather read in the vernacular : every book not written in French or English