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The Book Meme
May. 21st, 2010 12:00 pmMy entire book-loving Friends List has done this one. :D
1) What author do you own the most books by?
This is a toss-up between Anne McCaffrey and L.J. Smith.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I try not to own multiple copies. I do have extra L.J. Smith books because I loved them so much as a teenager and now they're being reprinted.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No. The people who are bothered by it bother me. :D
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Secretly? I don't think it is a secret that I've been in love with Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries for something like twenty years.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton (I quickly discovered the series really, truly, had gone-to-pot and was never coming back.)
8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
I can't cut it down to one. The "bests" include: Jamie Korngold's God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi; Henry Cole's On Meadowview Street; Markus Zusak's The Book Thief; Nancy Cobb's In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living; and James William Gibson's A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature.
9) If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
John de Graaf's Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I couldn't name one human in history that has won it. So really, who am I to say?
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon. Did that ever happen?
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
The Bible. It'd be the longest movie ever and all the begats would sorta kill the pacing.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
It involved stabbing people with scissors in order to escape another dimension and really, who needs to hear more about that? :)
14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. It gets worse and worse and worse.
15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Wuthering Heights. I just couldn't get through it.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
Ever seen? Oh, that's unfortunate...I've only ever seen the most famous ones.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The French...though really, aren't they both depressing? :)
18) Roth or Updike?
I have never read a single book of either.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Again, I've never read either one of these guys' work.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare, for rereadable joy.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen, without question.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Short stories, poetry, award-winning literature. I find myself shying away from anything that looks like what I was forced to read in literature courses. I like my fiction entertaining and my non-fiction uplifting.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon
24) Play?
Perversely, I really enjoy The Crucible.
25) Poem?
Here's where the giant gap in my reading comes into play. I have enjoyed poetry but found no heart-winning favorites.
26) Essay?
Seriously? Lord. I wouldn't know where to begin.
27) Short story?
I'm forever chilled by E.A. Poe's Premature Burial.
28) Work of nonfiction?
Some of the most influential of my life include:
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional Life of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Dr. Brian Weiss
Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic by John de Graaf
Advice on Dying and Living a Better Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Shaun David Hutchinson :D
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
I don't know. I think books find their audiences and while something might not meet my needs, it may meet others'.
31) What is your desert island book?
A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, edited by M.J. Ryan. Hundreds of poems and snippets and prayers on gratitude, something I'd need if I was stranded alone in a survival situation. Of course, the unpublished "Eat This....Not This: Wilderness Edition" would be helpful, too.
32) And… what are you reading right now?
I'm currently reading Kelley Armstrong's The Reckoning having just finished up Carrie Ryan's The Dead-Tossed Waves.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
This is a toss-up between Anne McCaffrey and L.J. Smith.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I try not to own multiple copies. I do have extra L.J. Smith books because I loved them so much as a teenager and now they're being reprinted.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No. The people who are bothered by it bother me. :D
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Secretly? I don't think it is a secret that I've been in love with Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries for something like twenty years.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton (I quickly discovered the series really, truly, had gone-to-pot and was never coming back.)
8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
I can't cut it down to one. The "bests" include: Jamie Korngold's God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi; Henry Cole's On Meadowview Street; Markus Zusak's The Book Thief; Nancy Cobb's In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living; and James William Gibson's A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature.
9) If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
John de Graaf's Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I couldn't name one human in history that has won it. So really, who am I to say?
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon. Did that ever happen?
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
The Bible. It'd be the longest movie ever and all the begats would sorta kill the pacing.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
It involved stabbing people with scissors in order to escape another dimension and really, who needs to hear more about that? :)
14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. It gets worse and worse and worse.
15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Wuthering Heights. I just couldn't get through it.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
Ever seen? Oh, that's unfortunate...I've only ever seen the most famous ones.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The French...though really, aren't they both depressing? :)
18) Roth or Updike?
I have never read a single book of either.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Again, I've never read either one of these guys' work.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare, for rereadable joy.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen, without question.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Short stories, poetry, award-winning literature. I find myself shying away from anything that looks like what I was forced to read in literature courses. I like my fiction entertaining and my non-fiction uplifting.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon
24) Play?
Perversely, I really enjoy The Crucible.
25) Poem?
Here's where the giant gap in my reading comes into play. I have enjoyed poetry but found no heart-winning favorites.
26) Essay?
Seriously? Lord. I wouldn't know where to begin.
27) Short story?
I'm forever chilled by E.A. Poe's Premature Burial.
28) Work of nonfiction?
Some of the most influential of my life include:
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional Life of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Dr. Brian Weiss
Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic by John de Graaf
Advice on Dying and Living a Better Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Shaun David Hutchinson :D
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
I don't know. I think books find their audiences and while something might not meet my needs, it may meet others'.
31) What is your desert island book?
A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, edited by M.J. Ryan. Hundreds of poems and snippets and prayers on gratitude, something I'd need if I was stranded alone in a survival situation. Of course, the unpublished "Eat This....Not This: Wilderness Edition" would be helpful, too.
32) And… what are you reading right now?
I'm currently reading Kelley Armstrong's The Reckoning having just finished up Carrie Ryan's The Dead-Tossed Waves.
