More meme-ery
There are a couple of interesting memes going around my flist. The first is the old purse meme which I did just this past summer. I'm carrying a different bag now but pretty much everything else is constant so if you have a hankering to see what I lug around everyday here it is.
The other is a book meme that is slightly different than others I've seen. So, via krabapple and pocky_slash
The book I am reading: WHO MADE THIS MEME? REALLY? ONE BOOK? At last count I am reading six books but I think that’s just a compromise number my head has settled on meaning “books I am actively reading this week” because the true number I have in play is probably upwards of twenty. I tend to take little breaks from books (particularly science writing, short story and essay collections, poetry) so I have bookmarks and postcards and little post-it flag marking all kinds of places. Even books that are fantastically engrossing may not be what I want in that moment. I’m a mood reader, I guess. Or a moody reader! For instance the book I am devouring right now, I Think I Love You has become bedtime reading and I am rationing a chapter a night because I don’t want to finish it too quickly!
1. I Think I Love You, by Allison Pearson
2. The Junior Officers’ Reading Club, by Patrick Hennessey
3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carré (I’ve been rereading a bunch of leCarré and misplaced this in the move but found it again on Wednesday)
4. Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD, by Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S.
5. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (on Kindle)
6. CookWise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking, by Shirley Corriher (not a cookbook a COOKERY book. Also, Shirley is a hoot!)
The book I am writing: I am not writing a book. I wrote a book in November but I can’t decide how I feel about it. At the time I was thrilled and a little high that I had successfully gotten all this stuff down and didn’t have to carry it around anymore. Now, I dunno. It’s funny in a horrific “Oh, god. I’m glad that wasn’t me!” (oh, wait) way and sort of prurient and salacious but some of it feels more mean-spirited than I meant it to be - both towards myself but also to people I care for. Also, an awful lot of the players in my past are dead now. I don’t want to minimize our idiotic risks and mistakes but I also don’t need to inflcit pain on the folks that are still alive and mourning them. So, yeah. I’ve come to realize that “somewhat fictionalized” is really not going to work for the stories I’m telling, and yet, it needs the verisimilitude of the time and place to ground it - and quite honestly it would sound ridiculously excessive if presented as pure fiction. A few people who were there, or who watched, agast, from the sidelines, have read portions of it and seem to be less critical than me. Of course, I showed the hysterical bits…I’m not stupid! So. I wrote an MS and it needs to age and air out a bit. I’ve locked it up and set a note to read it again in October. If nothing else it was excellent therapy.
The book I love most: AGAIN, AN INSANE PERSON MADE THIS MEME!…BOOKS DO NOT ASK FOR MONOGAMY! THE BOOK I LOVE THE MOST, PFFT. MORE LIKE TWENTY BOOKS I LOVE THE MOST.krabapple and pocky_slash each did five which makes sense to me. I make no attempt to explain or justify, these are the books of my heart.
1. Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean
2. Finder, by Emma Bull
3. Persuasion, by Jane Austen
4. The Spring of the Ram, by Dorothy Dunnett
5. Cryptonomicon , by Neal Stephenson
The last book I received as a gift: Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD by Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S. from Kay who has been there and done that.
The last book I gave as a gift: Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5 Billion-year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin as a Valentine’s Day gift for The Boy. Doesn’t everybody give their kids great science writing for Valentine’s Day?
The nearest book: Crush, by Richard Siken and my Kindle with (hmm, let me check) 72 books and 43 fics which I will not list here.
The other is a book meme that is slightly different than others I've seen. So, via krabapple and pocky_slash
The book I am reading: WHO MADE THIS MEME? REALLY? ONE BOOK? At last count I am reading six books but I think that’s just a compromise number my head has settled on meaning “books I am actively reading this week” because the true number I have in play is probably upwards of twenty. I tend to take little breaks from books (particularly science writing, short story and essay collections, poetry) so I have bookmarks and postcards and little post-it flag marking all kinds of places. Even books that are fantastically engrossing may not be what I want in that moment. I’m a mood reader, I guess. Or a moody reader! For instance the book I am devouring right now, I Think I Love You has become bedtime reading and I am rationing a chapter a night because I don’t want to finish it too quickly!
1. I Think I Love You, by Allison Pearson
2. The Junior Officers’ Reading Club, by Patrick Hennessey
3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carré (I’ve been rereading a bunch of leCarré and misplaced this in the move but found it again on Wednesday)
4. Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD, by Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S.
5. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (on Kindle)
6. CookWise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking, by Shirley Corriher (not a cookbook a COOKERY book. Also, Shirley is a hoot!)
The book I am writing: I am not writing a book. I wrote a book in November but I can’t decide how I feel about it. At the time I was thrilled and a little high that I had successfully gotten all this stuff down and didn’t have to carry it around anymore. Now, I dunno. It’s funny in a horrific “Oh, god. I’m glad that wasn’t me!” (oh, wait) way and sort of prurient and salacious but some of it feels more mean-spirited than I meant it to be - both towards myself but also to people I care for. Also, an awful lot of the players in my past are dead now. I don’t want to minimize our idiotic risks and mistakes but I also don’t need to inflcit pain on the folks that are still alive and mourning them. So, yeah. I’ve come to realize that “somewhat fictionalized” is really not going to work for the stories I’m telling, and yet, it needs the verisimilitude of the time and place to ground it - and quite honestly it would sound ridiculously excessive if presented as pure fiction. A few people who were there, or who watched, agast, from the sidelines, have read portions of it and seem to be less critical than me. Of course, I showed the hysterical bits…I’m not stupid! So. I wrote an MS and it needs to age and air out a bit. I’ve locked it up and set a note to read it again in October. If nothing else it was excellent therapy.
The book I love most: AGAIN, AN INSANE PERSON MADE THIS MEME!…BOOKS DO NOT ASK FOR MONOGAMY! THE BOOK I LOVE THE MOST, PFFT. MORE LIKE TWENTY BOOKS I LOVE THE MOST.krabapple and pocky_slash each did five which makes sense to me. I make no attempt to explain or justify, these are the books of my heart.
1. Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean
2. Finder, by Emma Bull
3. Persuasion, by Jane Austen
4. The Spring of the Ram, by Dorothy Dunnett
5. Cryptonomicon , by Neal Stephenson
The last book I received as a gift: Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD by Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S. from Kay who has been there and done that.
The last book I gave as a gift: Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5 Billion-year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin as a Valentine’s Day gift for The Boy. Doesn’t everybody give their kids great science writing for Valentine’s Day?
The nearest book: Crush, by Richard Siken and my Kindle with (hmm, let me check) 72 books and 43 fics which I will not list here.