25 Bookish and Non-Bookish Facts about Me

25 Bookish Facts About Me

1. I can read about 100 pages an hour depending on the book.
2. Hardbacks vs Paperbacks: I prefer hardbacks.
3. My favorite Genre is Fantasy but I do really love Contemporaries.
4. For Contemporaries I mostly read standalones.
5. For Fantasy I usually read series. 
6. I love drinking tea while reading and I'm not really sure why. 
7. Booksales are one of the things that I look forward to the most during the summer. 
8. I want to be a writer myself and am in the middle of writing a book at the moment. It's a fantasy story and I absolutely love writing it. 
9. I read hardbacks, paperbacks, audiobooks, and ebooks. 
10. Books that make me laugh are my favorites but I do really love books that make me sad.
11. One of the books that I absolutely loved from my childhood is Matilda. I want to eventually name a character or one of my children Matilda. 
12. I am obsessed with the Harry Potter series. It is my favorite series.
13. I have a hard time picking favorite books and series.
14. I love retellings and my favorite retellings are on Fairy Tales, Alice in Wonderland and Greek mythology.
15. I collect Alice in Wonderland books ( I have 7 editions of it), Harry Potter editions, and The Great Gatsby. 
16. My two favorite classics are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Great Gatsby. 
17. I read nonfiction, adult, young adult, middle grade, graphic novels, and some children books. I really love any type of book. They all interest me. 
18. I love looking at books. 
19. I have read almost a 1000 pages in a day. That day was crazy. This was a total of almost 3 books.
20. The book I have read the most is probably Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling. I have read it around 6 or 7 times. It's my favorite of the series.
21. I wrote a children's book when I was very young. It was about a butterfly who wanted to go to the mall to buy books. 
22. I love the website Goodreads so much.
23. I love beautiful endpapers in books, especially when they are maps.
24. I am obsessed with epigraphs and I want to find the perfect ones for my own books. 
25. I collect bookmarks. I have hundreds of bookmarks. 

25 Non-bookish Facts about Me

1. My full name is Carrie Ann Griffin.
2. I am just as much obsessed with movies as I am with books.
3. My favorite movie is Stardust based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. 
4. My favorite color is purple.
5. I'm obsessed with Star Wars and Disney movies. 
6. My favorite Star Wars movie is: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and my favorite Disney movies are The Little Mermaid and Hercules.
7. I love colorful socks. 
8. I graduated from Bloomsburg University on December 17th, 2016.
9. I graduated with two majors one in Creative Writing and Secondary Ed. English. 
10. My favorite animals are owls and cats. 
11. I collect tote bags and purses. My favorite tote is my Alice in Wonderland one
12. I also collect Funko pops and other Funko products. I have over 90 in total. My favorites are my Hades mystery mini and my Harry Potter train ride. 
13. I love butterflies and have so many different things with butterflies on them from my childhood. 
14. Glee is my favorite tv series. The music was always so great. 
15. I love music so much and when I am writing I listen to music to help focus.
16. My favorite time period for music is the 80s. 
17. I love buying things on Amazon whether that be movies, books, and music or just gifts for my family and friends. 
18. I always carry a journal around with me just in case I get an idea.
19. My favorite foods are strawberries, peanut butter, and cheese-steak hoagies. 
20. My favorite drinks are water and tea. 
21. I love playing board games such as: Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Sorry, and Battleship.  
22. My favorite musical that I have seen so far is Les Miserable. I actually got to see it last year on Broadway which was awesome. 
23. Rhett and Link are my favorite YouTubers. Dan and Phil, Richard from Richard's Book Nook and Peter Likes Books are also some of my favorites. 
24. I love watching BookTube videos. 
25. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is another one of my favorite tv series. Buffy and Angel all the way. Though I do love Spike.