Already answered 1, 23, 27, 33, and 35 :)

2. What are you reading right now? Right now I’m reading Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin and Cortazar’s Imagen de John Keats. I’m also rereading El Tunel and Rayuela.

9. Least favourite book you read this year (so far)? Te pido un taxi.

10. Favorite book you’ve read this year? To Kill a Mockingbird and Saramago’s Blindness.

1. Favorite childhood book? The Steadfast Tin Soldier! Hands down. Such a fucked up story but I remember loving it.

4. Bad book habit? Whenever I get to the end of a chapter my eyes immediately jump to the last lines. I’ve ruined many chapter endings this way.

20. What makes you love a book? Great writing. Of course  an enthralling plot and characters with depth are important factors, but like I said before I pay a lot of attention to language, so author’s craft and style are what I notice first.

23. Genre you rarely read (but wish you did)? Science fiction.

35. Favorite Poet? I haven’t read that many poetry books so as to have a favourite author but I really like Keats, Neruda and Bukowski. I’ve been slowly getting into the works of T.S Eliot and Whitman and I’m thoroughly enjoying that as well.

51. Are there any books you’ve been avoiding? Stephen King’s! I’ve only read Salem’s Lot and it scared the crap out of me. But I definitely want to start reading more of his books as I’ve seen and enjoyed lots of movie adaptations of his works. Except for It. I do not want to be near that book or film in my life. Just no.

7. Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once? Well, it depends on the situation. Sometimes if I start reading a book and I’m hooked, that’s it, that’s the only book I’ll be reading until I finish it. But then other times I’d hit a reading slump and that’s when books start to pile up on my bedside table. Right now I have 4 sitting there.

19. What is your favourite language to read in? Though I love my mother tongue, I love reading books in English. When I read in English I don’t just concentrate on the story, I also pay attention to new words, collocations, phrasal verbs, punctuation, etc. So not only do I get to read a story, I get to learn so much about the language which helps me expand my vocabulary. And I love that.

38. Favorite fictional character? Clarisse form Fahrenheit 451 and Scout form To Kill a Mockingbird. I’m not sure yet that Horacio Oliveira from Cortázar’s Hopscotch is a favourite of mine, but I find myself thinking about him a lot so he gets a shout out.

27. Most inspirational book you’ve read this year (fiction or non-fiction)? Sadly, I haven’t read many books this year, like ten or so. But out of those To Kill a Mockingbird was hands down the most inspirational. It was so, so good. After I finished it I wanted to kick myself for not reading it sooner as it had been sitting in my bookshelf for years.

29. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience. Looking for Alaska, I guess. It was all over tumblr when I first joined here and I kept reading these great reviews saying it was this century’s Catcher in the Rye or something along those lines, so I thought it was going to blow me away and, well, it didn’t. I liked it, mind you, but I guess I was expecting more or at least something different.

33. Most intimidating book you’ve ever read? Eric Hobsbawm’s trilogy The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital and The Age of Empire. I read them three years ago for a class, and just seeing them piled up was intimidating. And yes, even though these are separate books I pretty much had to read them as one ‘cause I would read one after the other since it was a very dynamic class and you had to be up to date with the assigned readings. I think I was more intimidated by my teacher than the books, though. She was really great and extremely passionate about her subject. She was like a walking history book.