Day Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen
I knew I wouldn't be any good at keeping this up. Okay, 14-17, here they are:
Day 14 - Favorite book of your favorite writer
Ann Rinaldi: The Second Bend in the River, The Fifth of March, Mine Eyes Have Seen.
JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion
Phillipa Gregory: The Queen’s Fool
Tamora Pierce: Protector of the Small Quartet, The Lioness Quartet, The Immortals Quartet, Trickster’s Queen.
Nancy McKensie: Queen of Camelot. It holds the record for number of times re-read. I think it has reached the multiples of ten now.
Day 15 - Favorite male character
Jean Claude from the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. French, belle époque era, completely emotionally complex and painfully sexy and interesting.
Day 16 - Favorite female character
I like any strong female character, but the two ladies who take the cake is Elske from Elske by Cynthia Voigt. A lovely Viking girl who completely takes the non-viking world by surprise. I love her.
And Meliara from Crown/Court Duel by Sherwood Smith. A backwoods princess that saves her fief, country, and is deliciously courted by the completely lovely Marquis de Shevraeth.
…I’m starting to see a pattern…
Day 17 - Favorite quote from your favorite book
I have already discussed that I really cannot have just one favorite book. But I shall share a quote from a book that I currently adore, from an author I’ve always adored.
"These works-groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless-have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test."
From Going Bovine by Libba Bray.
Other news: This is the first week of independent research, and I've been horribly reticent in my research. I did spend most of today in the library, doing god knows how much research, but I've yet to really read through any of the 50 plus books and 200 plus articles that I've collected. I've also got to work both tomorrow and friday, so I'm not sure how I'm going to fit in the required 35-45 hours of research this week. Mostly my fault for not doing any this last weekend, but dang.
Also, watched this amazing, mind blowingly beautiful film called "Departures," which won an oscar for best foreign film. (It's a Japanese film) Just watch it. I can't even describe it. Though it did make me think of John Denver, for some bizarre reason. And so, I've been listening to him since then, and I can't say it's done me any harm. I just associate John Denver with love and comfort, probably from growing up listening to it with my parents, him being one of the only things that they ever really agreed on. So I'll leave some lyrics that have been following me around for the last two days:
A Song for All Lovers, John Denver
I see them dancing somewhere in the moonlight
Somewhere in Alaska, somewhere in the sun
I hear them singing a song for all lovers
A song for the two hearts beating only as one
Imagine the morning no longer alone
The arms of another, a place to belong
No longer the struggle, no longer the night
And ever becoming in the quickening light
To see the darkness, to listen within
To answer in kindness, to ever begin
To ever be gentle, to always be strong
To walk in the wonder, to live in the song
In a place of enchantment where the wild things are known
Will the future remember when the lovers are gone
And I see them dancing somewhere in the moonlight
Somewhere in Alaska, somewhere in the sun
I hear them singing a song for all lovers
A song for the two hearts beating only as one
A song for the two hearts beating only as one
Day 14 - Favorite book of your favorite writer
Ann Rinaldi: The Second Bend in the River, The Fifth of March, Mine Eyes Have Seen.
JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion
Phillipa Gregory: The Queen’s Fool
Tamora Pierce: Protector of the Small Quartet, The Lioness Quartet, The Immortals Quartet, Trickster’s Queen.
Nancy McKensie: Queen of Camelot. It holds the record for number of times re-read. I think it has reached the multiples of ten now.
Day 15 - Favorite male character
Jean Claude from the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. French, belle époque era, completely emotionally complex and painfully sexy and interesting.
Day 16 - Favorite female character
I like any strong female character, but the two ladies who take the cake is Elske from Elske by Cynthia Voigt. A lovely Viking girl who completely takes the non-viking world by surprise. I love her.
And Meliara from Crown/Court Duel by Sherwood Smith. A backwoods princess that saves her fief, country, and is deliciously courted by the completely lovely Marquis de Shevraeth.
…I’m starting to see a pattern…
Day 17 - Favorite quote from your favorite book
I have already discussed that I really cannot have just one favorite book. But I shall share a quote from a book that I currently adore, from an author I’ve always adored.
"These works-groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless-have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test."
From Going Bovine by Libba Bray.
Other news: This is the first week of independent research, and I've been horribly reticent in my research. I did spend most of today in the library, doing god knows how much research, but I've yet to really read through any of the 50 plus books and 200 plus articles that I've collected. I've also got to work both tomorrow and friday, so I'm not sure how I'm going to fit in the required 35-45 hours of research this week. Mostly my fault for not doing any this last weekend, but dang.
Also, watched this amazing, mind blowingly beautiful film called "Departures," which won an oscar for best foreign film. (It's a Japanese film) Just watch it. I can't even describe it. Though it did make me think of John Denver, for some bizarre reason. And so, I've been listening to him since then, and I can't say it's done me any harm. I just associate John Denver with love and comfort, probably from growing up listening to it with my parents, him being one of the only things that they ever really agreed on. So I'll leave some lyrics that have been following me around for the last two days:
A Song for All Lovers, John Denver
I see them dancing somewhere in the moonlight
Somewhere in Alaska, somewhere in the sun
I hear them singing a song for all lovers
A song for the two hearts beating only as one
Imagine the morning no longer alone
The arms of another, a place to belong
No longer the struggle, no longer the night
And ever becoming in the quickening light
To see the darkness, to listen within
To answer in kindness, to ever begin
To ever be gentle, to always be strong
To walk in the wonder, to live in the song
In a place of enchantment where the wild things are known
Will the future remember when the lovers are gone
And I see them dancing somewhere in the moonlight
Somewhere in Alaska, somewhere in the sun
I hear them singing a song for all lovers
A song for the two hearts beating only as one
A song for the two hearts beating only as one