The Anti- Valentine's Day Tag

I was tagged by JJ at This Dark Material for this one and it looks like a lot of fun. Thanks JJ! I like that this is kinda different from a lot of the tags out there, and coming up with questions was tough! So let's have a little fun at Valentines Days expense. :) 

The Rules

1) Link back to the blog that tagged you 

2) Answer the ten anti- Valentine's Day questions provided

3) Come up with your own 10 anti- Valentine's questions for blogs you tag

4) Tag ten other bloggers

JJ's questions 

1) If you could banish one romantic trope from fiction forever, what would it be? 

Probably love triangles, honestly. Just not a fan. 

2) Name a book you loved that passes the Bechdel test.

Big Little Lies.

3) Name a book that features a male/ female friendship that doesn't turn romantic.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Katniss and Finnick. 

4) What's the funniest book you've read?

I'm going to go with Big Little Lies here again- it's not the funniest book I've ever read (I'm actually not sure what that would be), but it is frequently hilarious.

5) If you had to choose between only reading romance novels or horror novels for the rest of your life, what would you choose?

Probably romance, oddly enough. I mean I don't read romance generally, but all horror all the time would get old. So hopefully I can cheat and read all YA or fantasy with romance in them? 

6) What's your favorite parent/ child relationship in fiction?

I... am not sure but will say, off the top of my head, Tom Sawyer and Aunt Polly, or Madeline and Chloe from Big Little Lies

7) What upcoming release are you most looking forward to in the second half of 2018?

Probably Record of a Spaceborn Few. I love this series.

8) Who was one of your bookish crushes as a child?

La, the high priestess of the Flaming God in the lost city of Opar. Wow, that's a mouthful. But yeah, I might've had a bookish crush...

"He recalled the scene within the temple when he had lain stretched upon the sacrificial altar, while La, with high-raised dagger, stood above him, and the rows of priests and priestesses awaited, in the ecstatic hysteria of fanaticism, the first gush of their victim's warm blood, that they might fill their golden goblets and drink to the glory of their Flaming God." - Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

I mean, how could I not? :)

9) What was the last book you stayed up all night to finish?

Probably Bad Girls With Perfect Faces.

 

10) Name a love triangle that wasn't so bad actually 

I sort of didn't hate The Hunger Games? I honestly felt that Gale and Katniss grew apart as they got older and more experienced, and as much as I hate the trope I didn't hate it as MUCH

I nominate

LaLa in the Library
Booker T's Farm
Victorian Soul Critiques
A Dance With Books 
Adventures of a Book Nerd
It Starts At Midnight 

My Questions (mwa ha ha) 

1) Tea or coffee? 

2) What is the most surprising book you've read this year? 

3) Name a favorite book friendship and what you like about it 

4) Sentient androids have been developed and are affordable- and can be customized to have independent thought, for those who want a thinking companion - would you get one? 

5) Name a recent highly anticipated release that you were disappointed by. 

6) What is your favorite cuisine? 

7) Name three favorite musical artists 

8) You can shapechange into  a cat, an owl, or a dolphin. Which do you pick? 

9) You have access to a secret library, but must choose- the one from Beauty & The Beast, the one from a certain wizards school, or the library at Rivendell. 

10) You can play one of three roles in a virtual reality world A: an assassin who can take the form of others, B) a pilot of a giant mech/ robot in a futuristic world, or C: a highly skilled thief/ pirate vagabond in a medieval fantasy world- it's totally imersive and you can feel pain, be "killed" (not your real self)- who do ya pick?