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kat8chaTotal number of books owned:
Fuck if I know? XD Two bookshelves, one with books and graphic novels, one with books and a shelf of manga, a box of manga, a milk crate of manga/doujinshi, a file box of doujinshi.
Last book bought:
Rin vol. 2 (I count manga as a book, yes, I'm lame)
Last book read:
I'm finishing up a re-read of Acorna by Anne McCaffrey
Five books that mean a lot to you:
1) The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis-
I love this book, I love the whole series, I love C.S. Lewis. I can't remember when I fell in love with Narnia, but I'm pretty sure it was our tape of the BBC movie of it. I remember checking out Prince Caspien and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and being so proud when the librarian told me it was a third grade reading level. I was in kindergarten/first grade at the time.
2) Daughter of the Blood, Anne Bishop
Not the most intellectual book ever. I mean that honestly. It's a Roc novel, and anyone who knows Roc knows they do not produce the most AMAZING stuff. Their books are enjoyable, but ultimately forgettable. I found the Dark Jewel's Trilogy while scouring the adult section of the library in 7th grade. I spent a lot of the year in a sort of flu like haze. I loved the books though, loved them quite a bit. The library did not have the first book, but I reread the second and third over and over again. When I got hit by migraines in 8th grade I read them again. After the year was over I remember being at Joseph Beth's and Mom asking if there was a book I wanted. My reaction was immediate, I got Daughter of the Blood and had her buy it for me. Considering the sex/bondage/violence I'm sorta glad she didn't know what was going on in it. XD
3) The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I cannot, for the life of me, remember how old I was when I got this book. It was bought for me by my sister Marian (if I wasn't lazy I could go check it, she probably wrote 'Happy __ birthday' in it) and told that this was the type of book you should read at 3 times in your life. Of course I read that book constantly. My second time reading it I burst into tears at the end. I had the book burned into my brain. XD So much so that years later, when I hadn't read it for ages, we studied it in French class (in French) and I could quote things off the top of my head. XD My classmates stfu'd me, but then they also said I was so much better at French then I believed. (I suck)
4) The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
How many of you look at this title and go 'wtf' at me? ^_^ I can't help it, I love intrigue and spy stories but I want GOOD ONES. I will be honest, my interest was originally perked by about 5 seconds I caught of the movie version. Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin? Duh I'm interested. So when Dad mentioned it was a book... off to the Library with me! (I spent most of my life before the laptop in the Library) I just LOVE the book. If I was to reread it now I might wonder why (luckily we don't own that one) because when I reread things like Sum of All Fears I see Clancy bring back obvious things that make me wonder why he can't do it subtly? But the books are brilliant. Hunt for Red October is just so awesome, and totally made my inner spy girl squee. It's the sheer bulk of the book, the detail in the pages, and the riveting action sequences. It's the fact that Jack Ryan is NOT a spy, he's an analyst, but he ends up in the thick of things every time. (BTW- movie of Red October? Good. Movie of Sum of All Fears? Not good. Clear and Present Danger? So so, did not like Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan)
5) The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Gah... how can I explain... Percy... Marguerite... Andrew... Chauvelin. It's... it's... it's impossible to explain how I can love this. The story just... and it makes you... And I was just... it's like... a very, very, very good literary make out session. I have, by the way, never read the other books, but we watched the BBC series with my Middle school French class.
Tag five people to continue this meme:
Anyone who wants to can!
Fuck if I know? XD Two bookshelves, one with books and graphic novels, one with books and a shelf of manga, a box of manga, a milk crate of manga/doujinshi, a file box of doujinshi.
Last book bought:
Rin vol. 2 (I count manga as a book, yes, I'm lame)
Last book read:
I'm finishing up a re-read of Acorna by Anne McCaffrey
Five books that mean a lot to you:
1) The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis-
I love this book, I love the whole series, I love C.S. Lewis. I can't remember when I fell in love with Narnia, but I'm pretty sure it was our tape of the BBC movie of it. I remember checking out Prince Caspien and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and being so proud when the librarian told me it was a third grade reading level. I was in kindergarten/first grade at the time.
2) Daughter of the Blood, Anne Bishop
Not the most intellectual book ever. I mean that honestly. It's a Roc novel, and anyone who knows Roc knows they do not produce the most AMAZING stuff. Their books are enjoyable, but ultimately forgettable. I found the Dark Jewel's Trilogy while scouring the adult section of the library in 7th grade. I spent a lot of the year in a sort of flu like haze. I loved the books though, loved them quite a bit. The library did not have the first book, but I reread the second and third over and over again. When I got hit by migraines in 8th grade I read them again. After the year was over I remember being at Joseph Beth's and Mom asking if there was a book I wanted. My reaction was immediate, I got Daughter of the Blood and had her buy it for me. Considering the sex/bondage/violence I'm sorta glad she didn't know what was going on in it. XD
3) The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I cannot, for the life of me, remember how old I was when I got this book. It was bought for me by my sister Marian (if I wasn't lazy I could go check it, she probably wrote 'Happy __ birthday' in it) and told that this was the type of book you should read at 3 times in your life. Of course I read that book constantly. My second time reading it I burst into tears at the end. I had the book burned into my brain. XD So much so that years later, when I hadn't read it for ages, we studied it in French class (in French) and I could quote things off the top of my head. XD My classmates stfu'd me, but then they also said I was so much better at French then I believed. (I suck)
4) The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
How many of you look at this title and go 'wtf' at me? ^_^ I can't help it, I love intrigue and spy stories but I want GOOD ONES. I will be honest, my interest was originally perked by about 5 seconds I caught of the movie version. Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin? Duh I'm interested. So when Dad mentioned it was a book... off to the Library with me! (I spent most of my life before the laptop in the Library) I just LOVE the book. If I was to reread it now I might wonder why (luckily we don't own that one) because when I reread things like Sum of All Fears I see Clancy bring back obvious things that make me wonder why he can't do it subtly? But the books are brilliant. Hunt for Red October is just so awesome, and totally made my inner spy girl squee. It's the sheer bulk of the book, the detail in the pages, and the riveting action sequences. It's the fact that Jack Ryan is NOT a spy, he's an analyst, but he ends up in the thick of things every time. (BTW- movie of Red October? Good. Movie of Sum of All Fears? Not good. Clear and Present Danger? So so, did not like Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan)
5) The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Gah... how can I explain... Percy... Marguerite... Andrew... Chauvelin. It's... it's... it's impossible to explain how I can love this. The story just... and it makes you... And I was just... it's like... a very, very, very good literary make out session. I have, by the way, never read the other books, but we watched the BBC series with my Middle school French class.
Tag five people to continue this meme:
Anyone who wants to can!
Bold the one's you've read, italicise the one's you might read, cross out the one's you won't and underline the ones on your book shelf!
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling (I still haven't finished it.... T_T)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcà a Márquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
I refuse to read Animal Farm, or Lord of the Flies. Trust me, I tried. I CAN NOT read them. >< And HP Half Blood Prince.... honest, I just can't bring myself to read it. >< I'm actually pretty sure I started the Old Man and the Sea at one point in my life... but don't believe I ever finished.
1. One book that changed your life:
(In the interests of not naming anything previously named, I'll try to do all new books here. XD) The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Dracula, Bram Stoker (I never get tired of it)
4. One book that made you laugh:
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dougles Adams
5. One book that made you cry:
(This is a toughie, since not many books make me cry but...) The Giver, Lois Lowry. (I sniffled, it counts)
6. One book that you wish had been written:
The Travels of Catastrophe, Kathryn F. (Me! This is my book! ...eventually)
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Eldest, Christopher Paolini (It's bad of me, I know. And I know it shows that WE CAN MAKE IT TOO ... but still ><)
8. One book you’re currently reading:
I'm like... 20 pages from the end of Acorna, Anne McCaffrey
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (tell no one I have yet to read the whole thing)
10. Now tag five people
Too lazy to tag! Just do it!
(In the interests of not naming anything previously named, I'll try to do all new books here. XD) The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Dracula, Bram Stoker (I never get tired of it)
4. One book that made you laugh:
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dougles Adams
5. One book that made you cry:
(This is a toughie, since not many books make me cry but...) The Giver, Lois Lowry. (I sniffled, it counts)
6. One book that you wish had been written:
The Travels of Catastrophe, Kathryn F. (Me! This is my book! ...eventually)
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Eldest, Christopher Paolini (It's bad of me, I know. And I know it shows that WE CAN MAKE IT TOO ... but still ><)
8. One book you’re currently reading:
I'm like... 20 pages from the end of Acorna, Anne McCaffrey
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (tell no one I have yet to read the whole thing)
10. Now tag five people
Too lazy to tag! Just do it!
Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror?
Fantasy, then Sci Fi
Hardback or Trade Paperback or Mass Market Paperback?
Trade paperback
Heinlein or Asimov?
Asimove
Amazon or Brick and Mortar?
Amazon
Barnes & Noble or Borders?
Borders.
Hitchhiker or Discworld?
Hitchiker. XD I've only read one Discworld book and it makes me go @_o
Bookmark or Dogear?
Neither, set aside and remember where you left off.
Magazine: Asimov’s Science Fiction or Fantasy & Science Fiction?
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Alphabetize by author Alphabetize by title or random?
XD Um... random. I alphabitized once, didn't last long.
Keep, Throw Away or Sell?
Keep! O_O (Throw Away?!?!)
Year’s Best Science Fiction series (edited by Gardner Dozois) or Years Best SF series (edited by David G. Hartwell)?
Years Best SF
Keep dustjacket or toss it?
Keep
Read with dustjacket or remove it?
XD Read with, if the dust jacket falls off though I set it aside
Short story or novel?
Novel plz!
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
I'll admit, I've only read one of the L.S. series, but after J.K. KILLED MY LOVE OF HARRY I gotta go with them.
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
When tired, though usually I'll wait till a convenient break
“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”?
'Once Upon A Time'
Buy or Borrow?
Buy! ...unless, you know, suddenly my library fines go poof....
Buying choice: Book Reviews, Recommendation or Browse?
Browse! Unless someone HAS recomended it.
Lewis or Tolkien?
O_O I have to choose? ... um... um... um.... Lewis. ~caves~
Hard SF or Space Opera?
XD Space Opera, all the way!
Collection (short stories by the same author) or Anthology (short stories by different authors)?
Either is fine by me, but I'll skip things in an anthology
Hugo or Nebula?
Hugo
Golden Age SF or New Wave SF?
...no opinion
Tidy ending or Cliffhanger?
If the Cliffies good, then go with it! But cliffy's DO take talent
Morning reading, Afternoon reading or Nighttime reading?
XDDD Always reading, kthx
Standalone or Series?
Um. Stand alone's are always good, but sometimes you crave MORE. Then again, overdoing it makes me lose love, and some authors can't keep the same dynamic tor my interest hroughout. (coughjkcough)
Urban fantasy or high fantasy?
Urban
New or used?
Either!
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
The Black Queen, Kristine Cathryn Rusch (Which people actually might have heard of)
Or maybe Green Rider, Kristen Britain
Top X favorite genre books read last year? (Where X is 5 or less)
Hmm....
Dragonriders of Perne McCaffry
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynn Jones
Silver Thorn, Raymond E. Fiest, Ann
Top X favorite genre books of all time? (Where X is 5 or less)
LoTR: Fellowship of the Ring
Prince Caspien and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A Wrinkle in Time
Daughter of the Blood
X favorite genre series? (Where X is 5 or less)
~points up~ All parts of series I love and adore... cept for HP nowadays... I'd like to supplant that with Jasper Fforde's series
Top X favorite genre short stories? (Where X is 5 or less)
ANY of Neil's n Smoke and Mirrors
The Littlest Dragon Boy
Fantasy, then Sci Fi
Hardback or Trade Paperback or Mass Market Paperback?
Trade paperback
Heinlein or Asimov?
Asimove
Amazon or Brick and Mortar?
Amazon
Barnes & Noble or Borders?
Borders.
Hitchhiker or Discworld?
Hitchiker. XD I've only read one Discworld book and it makes me go @_o
Bookmark or Dogear?
Neither, set aside and remember where you left off.
Magazine: Asimov’s Science Fiction or Fantasy & Science Fiction?
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Alphabetize by author Alphabetize by title or random?
XD Um... random. I alphabitized once, didn't last long.
Keep, Throw Away or Sell?
Keep! O_O (Throw Away?!?!)
Year’s Best Science Fiction series (edited by Gardner Dozois) or Years Best SF series (edited by David G. Hartwell)?
Years Best SF
Keep dustjacket or toss it?
Keep
Read with dustjacket or remove it?
XD Read with, if the dust jacket falls off though I set it aside
Short story or novel?
Novel plz!
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
I'll admit, I've only read one of the L.S. series, but after J.K. KILLED MY LOVE OF HARRY I gotta go with them.
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
When tired, though usually I'll wait till a convenient break
“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”?
'Once Upon A Time'
Buy or Borrow?
Buy! ...unless, you know, suddenly my library fines go poof....
Buying choice: Book Reviews, Recommendation or Browse?
Browse! Unless someone HAS recomended it.
Lewis or Tolkien?
O_O I have to choose? ... um... um... um.... Lewis. ~caves~
Hard SF or Space Opera?
XD Space Opera, all the way!
Collection (short stories by the same author) or Anthology (short stories by different authors)?
Either is fine by me, but I'll skip things in an anthology
Hugo or Nebula?
Hugo
Golden Age SF or New Wave SF?
...no opinion
Tidy ending or Cliffhanger?
If the Cliffies good, then go with it! But cliffy's DO take talent
Morning reading, Afternoon reading or Nighttime reading?
XDDD Always reading, kthx
Standalone or Series?
Um. Stand alone's are always good, but sometimes you crave MORE. Then again, overdoing it makes me lose love, and some authors can't keep the same dynamic tor my interest hroughout. (coughjkcough)
Urban fantasy or high fantasy?
Urban
New or used?
Either!
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
The Black Queen, Kristine Cathryn Rusch (Which people actually might have heard of)
Or maybe Green Rider, Kristen Britain
Top X favorite genre books read last year? (Where X is 5 or less)
Hmm....
Dragonriders of Perne McCaffry
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynn Jones
Silver Thorn, Raymond E. Fiest, Ann
Top X favorite genre books of all time? (Where X is 5 or less)
LoTR: Fellowship of the Ring
Prince Caspien and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A Wrinkle in Time
Daughter of the Blood
X favorite genre series? (Where X is 5 or less)
~points up~ All parts of series I love and adore... cept for HP nowadays... I'd like to supplant that with Jasper Fforde's series
Top X favorite genre short stories? (Where X is 5 or less)
ANY of Neil's n Smoke and Mirrors
The Littlest Dragon Boy
