Quiz and a Meme
Quiz real quick:
How true.
You Hike Through Life
Your journey through life is challenging, exhilarating, and at times difficult.
You are curious about the world, and you're willing to go off the beaten path to satisfy your thirst for knowledge.
Your mind is always alert and churning something over. You enjoy solving problems, and adversity makes you feel alive.
You are both independent and skeptical. You often need to see something with your own eyes before you'll believe it.
How Do You Travel Through Life?
And a Book Meme I pilfered from ashes_to_roses
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
I honestly couldn't tell you. I'd have to dig through my book boxes to see which books I even have. Off-hand, I'd say it's probably the book my 4th grade teacher gave me for Christmas that year.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Current: Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'll be starting Heaven by V.C. Andrews
Last: Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews
Next: Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Misery. Pretty much because i couldn't even get through the first chapter. I wanted to stab myself in the brain just trying to read it.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?
Uh...if I want to read a book, I usually do. Or at least try.
5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
A book I haven't discovered yet?
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Wait till the end. Although, if the chapters are named, I skip through the book to see what they're called.
7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Waste. But I usually read them anyway.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Oh, geez. Could there have been a harder question in this thing?
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
All of them, because most of them are from school.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I have an old History book from the 60s that used to belong to my uncle. His class got to bring them home at the end of his senior year because they were updating books. It was here and I found it while cleaning things up, so I kept it. And, yes, I actually read it from time to time.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
Not for a special reason...
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
Pretty much all of them have been with me all the same places. Home, apartment, here.
13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
Not really. If I didn't like it in school, I didn't read it then. Why would I want to read it now?
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Notes in my copy of Turn of the Screw, proving I had read it in High School, even though I didn't remember ever even opening it.
15. Used or brand new?
Doesn't matter. But old books smell better.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
OPIATE OF THE MASSES!!! I can NOT stand his books. At least, what I've tried reading. I do, however, enjoy movies made from his books.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Not really better. Maybe just as much, though I couldn't tell you which one(s).
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel. Okay enough book, but the movie completely skipped all the relevant, good stuff.
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
A few have made me want to eat certain things, but not actually made me hungry...
20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
I just do the research myself. Pretty much everyone's tastes are so different than mine. If it sounds interesting, I give it a try.
How true.
You Hike Through Life
Your journey through life is challenging, exhilarating, and at times difficult.
You are curious about the world, and you're willing to go off the beaten path to satisfy your thirst for knowledge.
Your mind is always alert and churning something over. You enjoy solving problems, and adversity makes you feel alive.
You are both independent and skeptical. You often need to see something with your own eyes before you'll believe it.
How Do You Travel Through Life?
And a Book Meme I pilfered from ashes_to_roses
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
I honestly couldn't tell you. I'd have to dig through my book boxes to see which books I even have. Off-hand, I'd say it's probably the book my 4th grade teacher gave me for Christmas that year.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Current: Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'll be starting Heaven by V.C. Andrews
Last: Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews
Next: Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Misery. Pretty much because i couldn't even get through the first chapter. I wanted to stab myself in the brain just trying to read it.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?
Uh...if I want to read a book, I usually do. Or at least try.
5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
A book I haven't discovered yet?
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Wait till the end. Although, if the chapters are named, I skip through the book to see what they're called.
7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Waste. But I usually read them anyway.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Oh, geez. Could there have been a harder question in this thing?
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
All of them, because most of them are from school.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I have an old History book from the 60s that used to belong to my uncle. His class got to bring them home at the end of his senior year because they were updating books. It was here and I found it while cleaning things up, so I kept it. And, yes, I actually read it from time to time.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
Not for a special reason...
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
Pretty much all of them have been with me all the same places. Home, apartment, here.
13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
Not really. If I didn't like it in school, I didn't read it then. Why would I want to read it now?
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Notes in my copy of Turn of the Screw, proving I had read it in High School, even though I didn't remember ever even opening it.
15. Used or brand new?
Doesn't matter. But old books smell better.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
OPIATE OF THE MASSES!!! I can NOT stand his books. At least, what I've tried reading. I do, however, enjoy movies made from his books.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Not really better. Maybe just as much, though I couldn't tell you which one(s).
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel. Okay enough book, but the movie completely skipped all the relevant, good stuff.
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
A few have made me want to eat certain things, but not actually made me hungry...
20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
I just do the research myself. Pretty much everyone's tastes are so different than mine. If it sounds interesting, I give it a try.