Hmm, that's annoying - the question numbers in my OP are all wrong and editing them still didn't work. Well the answers I have are:
Q1. First book - One of the Noddy books by Enid Blyton when I was about 6 I think. I was staying with my gran and she bought 3 of these books from a charity shop & I loved them. They turned me into a huge Enid fan, though I could never get into The Secret Seven. Enid is to blame for me begging my mum to send me to boarding school. Thank god we couldn't ever begin to afford it - I'm sure the reality would have been miserable for me.
Q2. The book that made me laugh the most is Catch-22. So funny, once I properly got into and started understanding the book - which took a while.
Q3. The book that made me cry the most I think has to be The Kite Runner, which, from memory i think is by Khaled Hosseini. A great book but I cried great juddering tears reading it. I've cried over many books but this one stands out.
Q4. The book I love that isn't critically acclaimed - tbh, there's loads of them. I read a lot of 'trash' and a lot of widely recognised as 'good' books. I guess the series that people could really judge me on, as they are in no way high brow, would be the Crossfire series by Sylvia Day. I really enjoyed this series and it's probably a set of books I wouldn't readily admit to liking irl!
Actually, another example is The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. These were hugely commercially successful so many people will agree with me, but just as many would probably think I've got awful taste in books.
Q5. The book I used to love but don't anymore would be Memoirs of a Geisha. I adored this book by Arthur Golden I think. I read it repeatedly but read it again maybe 10 years ago and it just didn't stand up, I didn't think it was beautiful anymore.
Q6. The book I've read most often is probably Pride & Prejudice. I love it so much, and pre-kid when I had so much more spare time, I would finish this and start reading it again immediately.
Q7. The book that means the most to me - I'll come back to this one. I don't know. I love too many books.
Q8. The book I least enjoyed would probably be a toss up between Bleak House or Anna Karenina. Both took up hours if my life that I'll never get back. I read those in my twenties when I still thought abandoning a book partway through was a failure on my part. Nowadays I realise life is too short to be reading a book I'm getting no enjoyment from whatsoever.
Q9. The book I.most enjoyed but never want to read again would be The Kite Runner. Too sad for me to ever want to read it or watch the film, yet I'd recommend it to people. A lot of people love his novel, A thousand Splendid Suns and say it made them cry. I was dry eyed at it. I dont know what that says about me!
Q10. Character in a book I most identify with - I honestly have no idea.
Q11. 5 books on a desert island- this is a lost that for me, would change from year to year I think. Right now it would be Pride & Prejudice, Lord of The Rings series (I love them but they're really long so get hours of reading from them - and i have them in a single book so this isn't cheating - is it?), Catch 22 as I get something new from this book each time I read it. I.dont know for the other two. It's too hard to choose. I'm vaguely thinking maybe Vanity Fair by Thackeray and cheating again by selecting the whole Twilight Series. I want some trash, comedy, romance, adventure and high brow writing in my reading so I'm trying to cover those bases here.