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A meme from book_memes
1) Can you remember /were you told what the first book read to you was? If you have kids, what’s the first book you read to them?
No I can't. I have terrible memory. But what I remember is reading the road signs in shiny downtown Atlanta, GA when I first moved there, in what? Right before 1st grade? Anyway, I was reading them, and a good deal of them were about peaches. Figures.
2) What book - in your wishlist, to-be-read pile or the vague list you keep in your head - are you most looking forward to reading? What appeals to you about it?
I....really look forward to reading Alex Cross books. Julia, this is completely your fault for describing them in such bloodthirsty, morbid detail that I, morbid person that I am, absolutely had to read it. But really, there's a while entire list on my kitchen counter.
3) What’s on the nearest bookshelf to your desk? (List titles or generalise, if you like)
To my desk? Or to me? There's a desk in my room, and another in a random room. The one closest to the random one has my mother's gigantic programming books. The closest one to me actually has all my music and stuff, so.
4) What’s on the nearest bookshelf to your bed?
Uh. It's all of my books. Let's see....Starts with Down the Rabbit Hole, Watership Down...chasing vermeer....Ender's Shadow....Agatha Christie, Kate DiCamillo, the Count of Monte Cristo, Cornelia Funke....Jack London...Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, His Dark Materials, James Patterson....Oh gosh, UNICORNS OF BALINNOR Oh my gosh....Manga, Journals, Dictionaries, Playing Cards, Large books, and lastly, the last volume of some encyclopedia.
5) What’s on the nearest bookshelf to your favourite armchair/sofa?
I actually like to read on the stairs leading from the kitchen, so I guess the one in my room.
6) You send a book as a belated Valentine’s gift to a crush... what’s the book?
Ergh....I have no idea.
7) In the spirit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, what classic would you rework, and in what genre?
Don Quixote in SCIFI, seriously.
8) Do you only go book shopping when you have a specific book in mind, or are you just as likely to go and browse?
I love to browse, definitely. It never pays looking for a specific thing unless you've seen it there, I guess. I make no sense.
9) What book blog / author website is your favourite for book-related news or author chatter?
Can I pass?
10) Is there an author from whom you would like / are desperately waiting for another book?
I dunno....Can you tell that I'm really running out of ideas?
And this one...where you choose 10 completely random books and blah. Oh, dang saturday nights.
1)
Yeah. I got this book....a while ago. The Misty series was okay, not too bad, not especially amazing. But King of the Wind was amazing, especially back then whe I was, what, in early elementary school? Ugh, I really can't remember. Anyway, it was amazing, that last book. So I guess this shows what kind of stuff I liked.
2)
Oh, this (without the scknazzy LOOK INSIDE). I bought this with a nice barnes &nobles gift card from earning principle's honors in 5th grade chinese. Murder in Mesopotamia earned me a...reputation with a teacher I didn't even have. My friend mentioned that her friend (me) had read a book where someone had died of drinking hydrochloric acid, haha. Anyway...Death on the Nile. My mother bid me to play the game, and we spent hours of a lazy afternoon crowded around the laptop, playing computer games. Ever after, I wanted to read Christie's books. I checked it out, but didn't get to reading it, and later got used to her prose. Then this came and yeah. Appointment with Death was nice too....Well, yeah. I love her books. Absolutely.
3)
Oh gosh HDM. I loved this series so much. And this book! I stayed up so late just to finish this because I was so close! Oh, the ending with John Perry dying :" You don't know who he was...he was my father!...You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true! He was my father, and neither of us knew it until the second you killed him! Witch, I wait all my life and come all this way and I find him at last, and you kill him..." And oh Lee Scoresby! He was my favorite character; why did you have to kill him? He came back later, but as a ghost!
He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we."
She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra."
Then she was pressing her proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
4)
I haven't read this. I only have it. End of story.
5)
I have this love of absolutely random trivia. So yeah, I read bathroom readers and the such. I read DK randomness, too, in case you wondered.
6)
Ah, a childrens' book. I don't have many worth talking about these days, I guess. This...I liked.
7)
Kate DiCamillo's books are amazing. Maybe not in content as some others, but definitely in emotion. The emotion in this and books like The Miraculous journey of Edward Toulane is awesome. I wish I could do it (but I can't).
8)
This book was so epic when I first read it. I would have liked it to stay a single book, but it is not so. The other two....are okay, I guess, but can never even try to hold a candle to this. This was a masterpiece. Others no. And I hate when I find these things happen, like in the Mysterious Benedict Society or The name of this Book is Secret.
9)
I actually love this series. And this book was awesome, though I should say that the last one was better. But this series started out great and got better as it went on. I appreciate that.
10) Last!
Oh. My. God.
Yeah.
I loved this book so much that I couldn't fall asleep after reading it. It caused massive, MASSIVE fangasms and I had to go ramble to everyone. I loved the tome of this book. It has an unfinished quality (well of course, there's sequels and stuff) but seems to wrap up by itself quite nicely. I'd really like to read the other books, but this alone would be quite enough. I think.
And Bean's thoughts, his narration! Amazing. The whole practical, futuristic air the book gave! And the truth in the word!
I finished MAdame Bovary. Yes!