What’s on your TBR?: Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris

Posted by Quirk Books Staff

What's up next on the TBR list for the authors of For Your Consideration: Keanu Reeves? Read on to find out!

 

Hey Kitty and Larissa! If you were stranded on Mars and could only have one book to read, what would it be?

KITTY: The Martian because the author paid attention to science and it might give me clues to survival. 

LARISSA: The Princess Bride by William Goldman for sheer comfort reading/to maintain my grip on reality.

 

What's your fandom?

KITTY: This is tricky!

LARISSA: I feel like I don’t have one! Or just one. Hm…

KITTY: Hmmm.

LARISSA: People solving mysteries and getting in wisecracks.

KITTY: Yep, same! And badass children that save the day.

LARISSA: Our fandoms are tropes.

KITTY: I blame Home Alone entirely.

 

What book is up next on your TBR?

LARISSA: Together, Dracula by Bram Stoker and a reread of Tana French’s In the Woods.

KITTY: And my first read of Tana French!

LARISSA: Separately, The Wastelands by Stephen King.

KITTY: The Grip of It by Jac Jemc.

 

If you were a Quirk book (not your own), which one would you be?

KITTY: Paperback Crush is basically the inside of my brain. 

LARISSA: There’s an old one I read a lot in high school called the Action Heroine’s Handbook that I loved. It had on advice on how to pull quick changes and defeat bad guys, basically a little bit of everything to get by and get shit done!

 

Which Keanu Reeves is your boyfriend, according to the quiz you wrote for the Quirk blog?

LARISSA: Good Bad Guy Keanu and Washed up Everyman Keanu even split!

KITTY: Sweet Baby Angel Keanu all the way!

 

What is your favorite Keanu fact you discovered while writing For Your Consideration: Keanu Reeves?

KITTY: The fact that his Mom was a costume designer for Alice Cooper and Dolly Parton used to wrestle with baby Keanu and that teenage Keanu dressed up in Dolly Parton’s Playboy Bunny costume his mom had designed.

LARISSA: That he and River Phoenix made up the campfire scene in My Own Private Idaho on their own and Gus Van Sant was like “cool, okay.”

 

Rank your top five Keanu movies.

LARISSA: THIS IS UNFAIR. This is cruel and this is wrong. But we’ll do it.

KITTY:

  1. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  2. Parenthood
  3. The Matrix
  4. John Wick
  5. Always Be My Maybe

LARISSA:

  1. Constantine
  2. Speed
  3. The Replacements
  4. John Wick
  5. Point Break