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alexiscartwheel) wrote2009-03-11 10:34 pm
alexiscartwheel) wrote2009-03-11 10:34 pm
Books!
An awesome book meme from librarian extraordinaire ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kit_the_brave.
1) Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
Hmm… I really don’t like to get rid of books, so I have plenty of old ones on bookshelves in multiple places. Of the books on the shelf in my bedroom here, I think I’ve had Anne of Green Gables longest.
2) What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
I’m currently reading Little Dorrit because I haven’t read any Dickens since Bleak House last year, and I enjoyed the Little Dorrit BBC series, so it seemed like a good choice. My last book was The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones. Everyone should read children’s lit. I don’t really know what my next book will be… I’ll probably stop at Half-Price Books while I’m in Columbus next week, so maybe something I find there.
3) What book did everyone like and you hated?
Hate is a little strong, but I didn’t really like The Lovely Bones, which I only read because people said good things about it.
4) Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
I dunno. Anna Karenina maybe? I haven’t had much success in the past with Russian lit.
5) Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
Why would I need to save anything? Are they going to run out by then?
6) Last page: read it first or wait til the end?
This question just makes me think of Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally, reading the end so he knows what happens just in case he dies before he can finish. But no, I don’t read the end first. It ruins the fun.
7) Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Sometimes they’re interesting. And your probably really appreciate them if you’re acknowledged.
8) Which book character would you switch places with?
Bella Swan in Twilight because I want my own sparkly vampire boyfriend. I mean, who wouldn’t? More seriously… maybe Lucy Pevensie? Cause wouldn’t it be great to discover another world tucked away in some hidden corner of your house?
9) Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
Yes, there are lots! I have several favorites that Oma, my grandmother, gave me that I associate with her. She liked buying me Canadian books, including Anne of Green Gables. I discovered some wonderful books that way. More Americans should read Kit Pearson’s books. The Sky Is Falling, a children’s book about English evacuees—“war guests”—in Canada during World War II, is one of my all time favorites.
10) Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
Earlier this year I read The Scholar Adventurers, a book about literary research. (It’s really good, I swear! If you’re interested in rare books and manuscripts.) I think it’s out of print now. I got my copy from a librarian at OSU. I met with him while I was mulling over going to library school, and he gave me a copy cause he thought I’d be interested.
11) Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
I give books as gifts pretty often—this year everyone in my family got books. I always try to pick something especially for that person.
12) Which book has been with you to the most places?
I really have no idea. It’d be something that I re-read a lot.
13) Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
It’s not ten years later yet! Who knows, maybe someday I will love The Sound and the Fury. I doubt it. It’s more likely that I’ll appreciate Silas Marner if I read it again.
14) What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
A q-tip. Or a flattened Hershey Kiss. The things people leave in library books.
15) Used or brand new?
Both. I do like my used books to be in good condition though. And why are library books not a choice here? I borrow the majority of the books I read from the public library.
16) Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I’ve never read anything by Stephen King, so I have no opinion. It’s not a value judgment on the quality of his writing, horror just isn’t my thing.
17) Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
I’m withkit_the_brave here. I thought The Lord of the Rings movies were even better than the books.
18) Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Can I nominate the third Anne of Green Gables movie (the Voldemovie), even though it’s not based on any book? That’s actually its problem. The second movie condenses three books into one, but still turns out okay, but the third ignores the rest of the source and just makes things up and is AWFUL.
19) Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
My college roommate and fellow English major has quite similar taste to mine, so I’m generally well inclined to trust her opinions.
kit_the_brave.1) Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
Hmm… I really don’t like to get rid of books, so I have plenty of old ones on bookshelves in multiple places. Of the books on the shelf in my bedroom here, I think I’ve had Anne of Green Gables longest.
2) What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
I’m currently reading Little Dorrit because I haven’t read any Dickens since Bleak House last year, and I enjoyed the Little Dorrit BBC series, so it seemed like a good choice. My last book was The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones. Everyone should read children’s lit. I don’t really know what my next book will be… I’ll probably stop at Half-Price Books while I’m in Columbus next week, so maybe something I find there.
3) What book did everyone like and you hated?
Hate is a little strong, but I didn’t really like The Lovely Bones, which I only read because people said good things about it.
4) Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
I dunno. Anna Karenina maybe? I haven’t had much success in the past with Russian lit.
5) Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
Why would I need to save anything? Are they going to run out by then?
6) Last page: read it first or wait til the end?
This question just makes me think of Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally, reading the end so he knows what happens just in case he dies before he can finish. But no, I don’t read the end first. It ruins the fun.
7) Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Sometimes they’re interesting. And your probably really appreciate them if you’re acknowledged.
8) Which book character would you switch places with?
Bella Swan in Twilight because I want my own sparkly vampire boyfriend. I mean, who wouldn’t? More seriously… maybe Lucy Pevensie? Cause wouldn’t it be great to discover another world tucked away in some hidden corner of your house?
9) Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
Yes, there are lots! I have several favorites that Oma, my grandmother, gave me that I associate with her. She liked buying me Canadian books, including Anne of Green Gables. I discovered some wonderful books that way. More Americans should read Kit Pearson’s books. The Sky Is Falling, a children’s book about English evacuees—“war guests”—in Canada during World War II, is one of my all time favorites.
10) Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
Earlier this year I read The Scholar Adventurers, a book about literary research. (It’s really good, I swear! If you’re interested in rare books and manuscripts.) I think it’s out of print now. I got my copy from a librarian at OSU. I met with him while I was mulling over going to library school, and he gave me a copy cause he thought I’d be interested.
11) Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
I give books as gifts pretty often—this year everyone in my family got books. I always try to pick something especially for that person.
12) Which book has been with you to the most places?
I really have no idea. It’d be something that I re-read a lot.
13) Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
It’s not ten years later yet! Who knows, maybe someday I will love The Sound and the Fury. I doubt it. It’s more likely that I’ll appreciate Silas Marner if I read it again.
14) What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
A q-tip. Or a flattened Hershey Kiss. The things people leave in library books.
15) Used or brand new?
Both. I do like my used books to be in good condition though. And why are library books not a choice here? I borrow the majority of the books I read from the public library.
16) Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I’ve never read anything by Stephen King, so I have no opinion. It’s not a value judgment on the quality of his writing, horror just isn’t my thing.
17) Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
I’m with
kit_the_brave here. I thought The Lord of the Rings movies were even better than the books. 18) Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Can I nominate the third Anne of Green Gables movie (the Voldemovie), even though it’s not based on any book? That’s actually its problem. The second movie condenses three books into one, but still turns out okay, but the third ignores the rest of the source and just makes things up and is AWFUL.
19) Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
My college roommate and fellow English major has quite similar taste to mine, so I’m generally well inclined to trust her opinions.
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I remember reading The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle in school. I had read it before and really liked it, but a lot of the class hated it. (But that was true of many books we read in middle school.)
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You got to read Charlotte Doyle in class? I think I read it in grade 3 for fun. I used to read a lot more when I was a kid than I do now...which is kind of sad.
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And when I realized that poor Lucy grew up once in Narnia and once in England, which meant she had to go through puberty twice, I was like, "CS, you jerk!" *sporksporksporkspork*
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Yeah, I've always thought that would be really tough, but it's really only mentioned briefly in the books. Going back to being a little kid would be tough, and would make a really interesting story in itself.