| Book Meme |
[25 Sep 2007|08:08pm] |
My turn to pick up the stick from off-black:
1.You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be? Having never read Fahrenheit 451, I had to refer to the Wikipedia entry, and I surmised this meant which book you memorise and get to pass on to future generations, rather than which book you would like to be, burned. I was tempted to go with 'Hop on Pop' (No, Pat, no, don't sit on that!) but I think I would rather be 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish'. I'm also tempted by 'The Sneetches and Other Stories', but although I like the Zax, I'm not so fond of the spooky pants, so I'll stick with 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish'.
2. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? Again, as off-black did, assuming from the context of the other questions that this is a literary character, almost undoubtedly. Yet nothing specific springs to mind. I can say, however, that I do not understand how anyone could possibly have a crush on Mr Rochester, but then I don't really like Jane Eyre at all, so that probably clouds my opinion. Wuthering Heights and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall were far better books.
3. The last book you bought is: The last book I bought new was so long ago as to be forgotten, so I will provide a list of purchases from the last book fair instead: The 1922 Oxford Big Book for Girls, The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears, I don't know how she does it by Alison Pearson, The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor, Emily Climbs by L. M Montgomery, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L Konigsburg, Gretel at St. Brides by Mary K. Harris, The World's People and How They Live - A series of anthropology essays written in 1940-something for high school students, which seems to mostly focus on the world's people that live in western countries, e.g it has separate entries for New Zealanders, Australians and Canadians, but only one entry on the whole of Africa, but there you go.
The next book I buy new will probably be 'The Pinhoe Egg' by Diana Wynne Jones if I can find a normal-sized paperback edition.
4. The last book you finished is:
Prom Nights from Hell - A collection of short stories written by American teen authors about spooky prom nights that I borrowed from the library.
5. What are you currently reading? Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Eating Fossil Fuels - Oil, Food and the coming crisis in Agriculture by Dale Allen Pfeiffer, Bait and Switch, The (futile) pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich, and far too much junk mail and daft community newspapers because we haven't put a 'No junk mail' sign on our letterbox yet.
Also on my reading pile, but not yet started - An Ocean of Air – A Natural History of the Atmosphere by Gabrielle Walker, Monica Bloom by Nick Earls.
6. Five books you would take to a desert island: Rivals by Jilly Cooper. If I'm going to be stuck on a desert island I want some comfort reading. And this essay on AC/DC and Jilly Cooper might also help explain why. Shores of Darkness by Diana Norman. The rest of the Baroque cycle (The System of the World, the back half of the Confusion) by Neal Stephenson – I’m halfway through the Confusion, and as off-black noted in relation to a brief history of time, being on a desert island would make me finish it. One of those compendium editions of Chrestomanci Stories by Diana Wynne Jones, the one with Charmed Life and the Lives of Christopher Chant in it. Some sort of Asterix omnibus – Goscinny and Uderzo.
Hmmm… not sure if those last two entries aren’t cheating, by being compendium editions, not to mention the half book at my third option….
7. Who are you going to pass this stick to and why? JAFW because he reads interesting stuff.
mcookies because I don't know what she reads but I bet it is interesting.
bekitty because I miss her and want to hear more on her blog. Although a book meme probably doesn't really update life, so if she wants to she can ignore the meme and just update her blog lots :-)
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