Book Meme
I grabbed this one from book_memes. It made me stop and actually consider the books I've read as a whole. I'm quite interested in how you ladies would answer!
1) What are your favourite books (fiction or otherwise) that challenge authority (familial, religious or governmental)?
The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food is Making us Sick -- And What We Can Do About It by Robyn O'Brien
A lot of the content has to do with the government's policies and double-standards. It's a very eye-opening book.
The Happy Hedgehog by Marcus Pfister
I've never been a conformist, and this book is wonderful for kids who know from a young age that they need to follow their own path, not one set out for them by someone else.
2) What are your favourite books that challenge prejudice or bigotry?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3) What are your favourite books that challenge conformity?
Again, The Happy Hedgehog by Marcus Pfister
A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine, M.D.
Dr. Levine takes the approach that every individual is exactly that a unique individual and that standard teaching methods do not fit all students. He is a strong advocate for individualized education plans for children that lie outside the box.
4) Which book do you feel carries a more important message... The Catcher in the Rye, 1984, or Fahrenheit 451?
Sadly, I have read none of these books, so I cannot comment.
5) When you were a teenager, what book(s) were you carrying around?
Early Teens: V.C. Andrews (I was forbidden from reading them so young, but I snuck them anyway), Sweet Valley High, and whatever assigned reading I had for school.
Late Teens: John Grisham and Mary Higgins Clark
6) Is there an author with whom you would like to argue regarding a particular view he/she seems to hold/have held?
Just one? I love to argue. I love debating issues! I mostly read books from a point of view that I share, but not always.
7) What's your favourite Dystopian novel?
I haven't read many, but several are on my to-read list. I'll have to go with The Handmaid's Tale by Margret Atwood for now.
8) What's your favourite war novel?
I don't know that I've read any outside of Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.
9) Name a book you've read that was ahead of its time in terms of predicting societal changes.
None come to mind. I read a lot of Sci-Fi, and I'm still holding out for the transporter AND world peace. :P
10) Name a book that has challenged your views on something.
There's actually a book I'm reading now that is doing just that... The Genius in All of Us : Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ is Wrong by David Shenk
11) Do you think that books (not including religious texts or political manifestos) can still have a real life impact on a wider-than-individual scale?
Oh, absolutely! The Da Vinci Code is an excellent example of this wide-sweeping reactions from people that caused countless "rebuttal" books to be made and an official statement from the Catholic church condemning the book and calling for Catholics to boycott. If that's not wider-than-individual impact, I don't know what is. [I definitely don't consider The Da Vinci Code a religious text, but people can feel free to disagree with me since the response was on a religious front.]
12) What is the must controversial/subversive book you own?
My books are pretty vanilla, but I own The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, as well as many Homeschooling books, some by controversial author John Holt. Like I said, pretty vanilla.
1) What are your favourite books (fiction or otherwise) that challenge authority (familial, religious or governmental)?
The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food is Making us Sick -- And What We Can Do About It by Robyn O'Brien
A lot of the content has to do with the government's policies and double-standards. It's a very eye-opening book.
The Happy Hedgehog by Marcus Pfister
I've never been a conformist, and this book is wonderful for kids who know from a young age that they need to follow their own path, not one set out for them by someone else.
2) What are your favourite books that challenge prejudice or bigotry?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3) What are your favourite books that challenge conformity?
Again, The Happy Hedgehog by Marcus Pfister
A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine, M.D.
Dr. Levine takes the approach that every individual is exactly that a unique individual and that standard teaching methods do not fit all students. He is a strong advocate for individualized education plans for children that lie outside the box.
4) Which book do you feel carries a more important message... The Catcher in the Rye, 1984, or Fahrenheit 451?
Sadly, I have read none of these books, so I cannot comment.
5) When you were a teenager, what book(s) were you carrying around?
Early Teens: V.C. Andrews (I was forbidden from reading them so young, but I snuck them anyway), Sweet Valley High, and whatever assigned reading I had for school.
Late Teens: John Grisham and Mary Higgins Clark
6) Is there an author with whom you would like to argue regarding a particular view he/she seems to hold/have held?
Just one? I love to argue. I love debating issues! I mostly read books from a point of view that I share, but not always.
7) What's your favourite Dystopian novel?
I haven't read many, but several are on my to-read list. I'll have to go with The Handmaid's Tale by Margret Atwood for now.
8) What's your favourite war novel?
I don't know that I've read any outside of Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.
9) Name a book you've read that was ahead of its time in terms of predicting societal changes.
None come to mind. I read a lot of Sci-Fi, and I'm still holding out for the transporter AND world peace. :P
10) Name a book that has challenged your views on something.
There's actually a book I'm reading now that is doing just that... The Genius in All of Us : Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ is Wrong by David Shenk
11) Do you think that books (not including religious texts or political manifestos) can still have a real life impact on a wider-than-individual scale?
Oh, absolutely! The Da Vinci Code is an excellent example of this wide-sweeping reactions from people that caused countless "rebuttal" books to be made and an official statement from the Catholic church condemning the book and calling for Catholics to boycott. If that's not wider-than-individual impact, I don't know what is. [I definitely don't consider The Da Vinci Code a religious text, but people can feel free to disagree with me since the response was on a religious front.]
12) What is the must controversial/subversive book you own?
My books are pretty vanilla, but I own The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, as well as many Homeschooling books, some by controversial author John Holt. Like I said, pretty vanilla.