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that book meme....
while waiting for work to end, so I can go to my beading/crochet class....
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arliss and susano
1. How many books do you own?
Um, no idea for the count, but I have one large and four "half" bookcases down in the living room, 2 large and one "half" in my study, and one large and 2 halves (actually, the upper portion of hutches) in my bedroom. This includes some comic books and graphic novels, too.
2. Last book you bought?
I found a brand-new bookstore in the Porter Square shopping center last Sunday, so I got Freakonomics, Curse of Chalion, Time Detectives and More Sex Tips for Girls there. Then I left before I bought more.
3. Last book you read?
Jumper by Steven Gould, which I reread immediately after reading Reflex, his long-awaited sequel to that book. (I was just as, if not more, pleased by the sequel than the original, which is extraordinary.)
4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
1. Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein -- it combined the best parts of pioneering and space travel, and when I was like ten seemed The Best Book Ever
2. The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz -- if I ever write anything nearly as fun as this, I'm going to kill myself afterwards because I'll never be able to top myself then.
3. Dickon Among the Lenape by M. R. Harrington. My 3rd grade teacher read us one chapter a week for an entire year and I was transfixed by the other worldliness -- an English boy is shipwrecked and adopted by the Indians in NJ (where I lived) so it was both familiar and wonderfully exotic. I ran across the book last year and reread it... and damn, it's actually a damn good book. It was my first exposure to non-WASPy culture and religion, and gave me a lifelong interest in stuff like that.
4. Lord of the Rings -- read first when I was like 12 or 13. I remember putting down one of the books then and reflecting as sincerely serious as a teenager can be, that no book after that would ever really be as good. I'm not entirely sure I was being ridiculous.
5. Dead heat: Tales of Saki by H. H. Munro or My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber. Both for style and humorous content -- not to mention they're both set in very very different worlds than existed in mid-60s/70s New Jersey
(If you want, I will call you up and read "The Night the Bed Fell" to you. Just ask, really.)
5. Five people you want to see do this meme:
Not that they're obligated, but I'd like to see whatsisterwolf, daughtershade, reginagiraffe, farwing and readsalot have to list. I'd ask heuradys but she's already overloaded with closing and moving....
done at the request of
arliss and susano1. How many books do you own?
Um, no idea for the count, but I have one large and four "half" bookcases down in the living room, 2 large and one "half" in my study, and one large and 2 halves (actually, the upper portion of hutches) in my bedroom. This includes some comic books and graphic novels, too.
2. Last book you bought?
I found a brand-new bookstore in the Porter Square shopping center last Sunday, so I got Freakonomics, Curse of Chalion, Time Detectives and More Sex Tips for Girls there. Then I left before I bought more.
3. Last book you read?
Jumper by Steven Gould, which I reread immediately after reading Reflex, his long-awaited sequel to that book. (I was just as, if not more, pleased by the sequel than the original, which is extraordinary.)
4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
1. Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein -- it combined the best parts of pioneering and space travel, and when I was like ten seemed The Best Book Ever
2. The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz -- if I ever write anything nearly as fun as this, I'm going to kill myself afterwards because I'll never be able to top myself then.
3. Dickon Among the Lenape by M. R. Harrington. My 3rd grade teacher read us one chapter a week for an entire year and I was transfixed by the other worldliness -- an English boy is shipwrecked and adopted by the Indians in NJ (where I lived) so it was both familiar and wonderfully exotic. I ran across the book last year and reread it... and damn, it's actually a damn good book. It was my first exposure to non-WASPy culture and religion, and gave me a lifelong interest in stuff like that.
4. Lord of the Rings -- read first when I was like 12 or 13. I remember putting down one of the books then and reflecting as sincerely serious as a teenager can be, that no book after that would ever really be as good. I'm not entirely sure I was being ridiculous.
5. Dead heat: Tales of Saki by H. H. Munro or My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber. Both for style and humorous content -- not to mention they're both set in very very different worlds than existed in mid-60s/70s New Jersey
(If you want, I will call you up and read "The Night the Bed Fell" to you. Just ask, really.)
5. Five people you want to see do this meme:
Not that they're obligated, but I'd like to see what
sisterwolf, daughtershade, reginagiraffe, farwing and readsalot have to list. I'd ask heuradys but she's already overloaded with closing and moving....
no subject
*quails*