Interview with Mr. Whalen

Interview with Mr. Whalen

1. How would you describe yourself as a reader?
I tend to be eclectic and random when choosing a book to read .

2. What is your favorite genre?
If an author s good in what he or she writes, I will enjoy that genre. Yet, as a general habit, I am drawn to political and espionage stories.

3. What is the hardest think for you to do as a reader?
Finding time, or making time to read can be difficult. As well, the pace and evolution of technology has interfered with so much distraction and "noise", reducing even more, the interrupted time to read. When the book is good, bad things happen in the kitchen and people go hungry.

4. If you could live in one of the book, what book would it be?
The world of Harry Potter and the magical, yet dangerous, world of Hogwarts fascinates me. The setting is both believable and complex, as the story straddles the mundane everyday world we live in with the dark world of evil and power. Ahh, to sit in a Professor Snape classroom next to Hermione and Harry as Ron messes up, yet again, would be a delight. Finally, who could resist taking a pitch and shooting across the skies in a rambunctious game of Quidditch?

5. What can you recommend to our readers?
The recent resurgence of the cinematic Sherlock Holmes suggests young readers today may want to read some of the original Holmes stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
Harper Lee's only published story, To Kill a Mockingbird,  gives a poignant view of American family life, moral and radical tension in the deep South of the early 20th century.
Any James Lee Burke police detective novel is worthwhile, given the vivid, graphic characters and narratives.
Finally, a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips by Bill Watterson (sadly retired) gives more inside into life, love, school and friendship than most series books on the subject.