2. Do you like reading aloud? Are you good at it?
Not particularly: I hate the sound of my voice and there’s constant anxiety about whether I’m in the right place on the pretentiously animated—bored axis lol. I’m probably okay? I don’t know. Either way, I’ll continue reading aloud to myself: especially the texts I’m translating, especially poetry and the flowy kind of prose. Sound can be astonishingly effective.
6. Have you ever physically destroyed a book?
Does spilling coffee on it and producing a whole new book made out of buffed-up, crinkly, light brown pages count? In that case, several.
13. Pick a book you would adapt for the screen, given unlimited budget and creative freedom.
Based on Coleridge’s original: Christabel the musical. I don’t even like musicals; then again, perhaps I don’t like musicals because they’re not Christabel the musical.
