Posts Tagged ‘reader questions’

Character Gifts

This week’s question of the week at DailyLit is: if you could give a present to a literary character, what would you give to whom?  Drop off your presents here.

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Question of the Week #77: Favorite Fictional Characters

This week’s question was inspired by this list of the 100 Best Fictional Characters since 1900.

Who are your favorite fictional characters of all time?

Share yours in our Question of the Week Forum.

Question of the Week #76: Summer Literary Romance

June 21 is officially the first day of summer, so it seemed a perfect week to borrow a question first asked over at The New York Times.

“Summer reading, for all its suggestion of soft breezes and cheap thrills, can be an awfully fraught proposition. Sometimes you turn down the lights at the beach house or lakeside cabin only to discover that the genteel Italian travelogue or much-hyped cyber-thriller you’ve brought along is rather dull company.”

Have you ever had an unexpected literary summer fling? Let us know in our Question of the Week forum.

Question of the Week #75: Happy Bloomsday!

June 16 is Bloomsday, a celebration of Irish writer James Joyce during which people relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. Revelers often dress in Edwardian costume and retrace Ulysses hero Leopold Bloom’s route around Dublin via landmarks such as Davy Byrne’s pub.

Which character’s path from which book would you like to retrace?

Share your ideas in our Question of the Week forum.

Question of the Week #74: Merchandising Books

Our friends at book trade-blog GalleyCat asked this question a few weeks ago and we want to hear what you think. How would you merchandise your favorite book?

For instance, for Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad you might sell cigars, random bones of random saints. Or for Moby Dick, a miniature white whale. Or this one from GalleyCat: “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson): um, nothing that would be legal to sell.”

Put on your marketing caps and share your ideas in our Question of the Week forum.

Question of the Week #73: Summer Reading Lists

Many students have summer reading assignments to complete. What’s on your summer reading list?

Share yours in our Question of the Week forum.

Question of the Week #70: Day Jobs

During this week in 1925 T.S. Eliot got a job at Faber and Faber publishers. Lots of authors had “day jobs.” What would you imagine your favorite author’s day job to be? (And feel free to share real author day jobs if you know them.)

Head to our Question of the Week forum to join the conversation.

Question of the Week #69: Books on Tumblr

We recently launched DailyLit books on Tumblr, a cool blogging platform. You can read (and share) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Art of War, or Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Tumblr.

Our question for you is this: what should we call these books on Tumblr? Normal Tumblr blogs are called Tumblogs. So, should we go with Tumblooks? Tumblebooks? Tumbooks? Or something different?

Share your suggestions in our Question of the Week forum.

Question of the Week #63: Remakes

Masterpiece Theatre recently aired a brand-new adaptation of Emma and re-aired adaptations of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.

Which book-film adaptations would you like to see remade? Which are perfect just the way they are?

Share your responses in our Question of the Week forum.

Question of the Week #61: Joycean Challenges

February 2nd is James Joyce’s birthday. The Irish author is famous for his innovative works like Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake, both of which readers routinely cite as among the most difficult books they’ve ever read (or tried to read).

What’s the most challenging book you’ve ever read? Did you finish it? And, maybe most importantly, did you feel it was worth the extra effort?

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