Nora

Nora asked Gayle Forman:

Do you have any books that you particularly enjoyed as a child?

Gayle Forman I loved Beverly Cleary's Ramona books as a child and I loved them again as an adult when I read them aloud to my daughters. Cleary captures the joys, fears and frustrations of childhood perfectly. But she also writes parents so well. I actually learn how to parent from the Quimbys.

Plus, the books are timeless. Beezus & Ramona was written in the 1950s and while the housewife stuff feels a bit dated, the experience of childhood and family feels very true.

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Do you think the movie can ever do justice to the book?

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Have you ever played an instrument? What is your favorite music genre? Why did you make music such a large part of If I Stay?

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Beatrix asked Gayle Forman:

Praises first :) Of all the books with male POVs (written by women), you by far write male point of view the best. Tell us something about that.

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