1. One book that changed your life – the hardest question first.

That’s difficult to answer. There isn’t one book that really made me decide something, explicitly. But there are hundreds of books that changed my view of the world ever so slightly and therefore, of course, influenced my decisions.
Anyways, maybe the book that changed my reading habits the most was Amy’s Eyes. It was the first outright fantasy novel I read and I was just so impressed that you were allowed to do stuff like that. I know that sounds a little ridiculous but there it is.

2. One book that you’ve read more than once.

I think I’ve mentioned it here before but I have to admit that the book I read the most times was The Alchemist. My excuses: I was 16, in Brasil for a year without my family and I read all the books I had with me at least twice [who would have thought that books are that hard to get in Brasil? I lived in a rather small town and the only thing that even approached a bookshop was a stationery shop with two or three books…].
Most recently, I read the Psy-Changeling Series again.

3. One book that you’d want on a desert island.

Well, one among the many books I’d want on a desert island [what, does the question say “the only book”?] would be… [that question is still hard to answer] … The Happy Prince and Other Tales.
[Great, now I feel bad for all the other books I’d want to take with me…]

4. One book that made you laugh.

There are quite a lot of those… Most recently, I think, was And Another Thing…, like with this passage:

“Total cock-up,” said Left Brain nervously. “You really think so?”
“Absolutely. But let’s dwell on that later, and at great length, to much embarassment for one of us. (…)”

Or this one:

Bloody butterflies, thought the man. Once they’d figured out the wing fluttering a continent away thing, millions of mischievous lepidoptera had banded together and turned malicious.

5. One book that made you cry.

Well… I’m a big sobber. I cried barely an hour ago watching this. I cried during 2012, for fuck’s sake, even if only a little bit. That is just to say that I’m probably no serious measurement.
But the book I cried hardest about was Abhorsen.

6. One book that you wish you had written.

None that actually exist. I want to write my own books and I wish I had done so already. But I want my book to be my own thing and not somebody else’s. And in any case, wanting to have written a book I love to read is kinda stupid because I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like to read it after having written it. And wanting to have written a book I don’t like is pretty nonsensical, isn’t it?

7. One book you wish had never been written.

I don’t think there is one. The problem is always what is being done with the books, not the books themselves.

8. One book that you are reading at the moment.

Right now, I’m reading Monstrous Regiment, Vienna by Eva Menasse and The Vampire’s Assistant.

9. One book that you’ve been meaning to read.

Oh, there are tons of those. Mostly non-fiction, I have to admit. But also more Norse mythology. And I wanted to re-read The Lord of the Rings. And and and… The sad thing is, if I keep up my current reading speed and I live another 60 years, that’s only about 4000 books left that I will be able to read. So not enough…