Books, Books, Books. (I hate it when she's the last to leave the house)
Yes, the book meme has come my way. I figure I need to finish it soon, so I can send it on its merry way to the next poor victim player
You are stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book would you be?
I have not read Fahrenheit 451 either (seems a pretty common theme), but since a key component seems to be choosing something nobody else has chosen, I am going to go with Life and Adventures of Santa Clause by L. Frank Baum. It was an annual tradition in my house for years.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
I admit I kinda had a crush on Calvin when I read A Wrinkle in Time but I'm not actually sure if that was about him, or about really wanting to *be* Meg Murray. Eventually someone pointed out that Calvin was my dad's name and that was creepy enough for me to cease all such thoughts. Still wanted to be Meg, though.
What is the last book you bought?
Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde. I haven't started reading it yet, since I still have a few books left from Christmas to finish.
What are you currently reading?
A Mind of My Own by Harriane Mills. It's a journal of her recovery from aphasia after a motorcycle accident. It's been kind of a difficult read, but interesting - especially since, only a few years later, I was taking a class with her at Kenyon, and never would have guessed that she'd had any sort of problem.
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
- Since my dear husband seems to be absconding with the copy of Cookwise, I'll have to take Alton Brown's I'm just here for the food. I hope that his MacGyver tendencies will serve me well.
- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson. I've read it about a zillion times and it hasn't gotten old yet.
- Clara Schumann, the Artist and the Woman, by Nancy B. Reich. Some of the more readable music history ever written.
- Thoreau's Walden. I have a copy in hardback that I got from my dad, and somehow I've never read it. That seems wrong to me, so may as well fix it while I'm going to have time to kill.
- OK, book five - this is the tough one. I briefly contemplated Fahrenheit 451, just so I'd understand question one. On the other hand, I wanted to go for complete pragmatism here. The new Reader's Digest complete do-it-yourself manual sprang to mind, but since makes certain assumptions about availability of tools, I scrapped it. Instead, I am going even further. My last choice would be Watts S. Humphrey's two-part SEI Series in Software Engineering (A Discipline for Software Engineering and Introduction to the Team Software Process, plus workbook). In the short run, they would be fabulous cures for insomnia. In the long run, they are the only books I own (or have ever owned) that I would be willing to use as a heat source.
Who are you going to pass this book meme to and why? (only three people)
For no particular reason other than curiosity, I hand the torch to Matt, Q, and teacherrefpoet
garden progress: The snow is gone, but the rain continues unabated.
house progress: Finally got the TNI box remounted, although I still need to re-run the phone line.
what's for dinner? Soup and sammiches (Kroger had fresh mozzarella, which, along with a little pesto on good bread, makes the best sandwich ever).
posted by Alison @ 6:19 PM
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At 9:49 PM,
TeacherRefPoet held forth...
- Done! Loved the rationale behind the computer books.
I just couldn't get into -A Wrinkle in Time,- although I'll never forget receiving it. It was December 1979, and we drove out to Detroit for my Grandpa Joe's funeral. Aunt Sally, an elementary school teacher, gave me three Christmas gifts early. Two I loved: Norton Juster's -The Phantom Tollbooth- and E.B. White's -The Trumpet of the Swan-. I read those while lying down in the way-back of our Buick Century Station Wagon across Iowa and Nebraska.
Read l'Engle when I got home. Just didn't get into it. Never was a fan of fantasy/science fiction, I guess.