ten questions

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gelbes_gilatier tagged me for a ten questions meme, which from what I can see is a case of answer ten random questions, then come up with ten more random questions and tag six of your f-list, so:

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[anuna_81]

Oh God, those questions are hard. I might need a few days for these, my head is not ready to do hard thinking right now.

[inkvoices]

No worries. And daft answers accepted ;)
Just thought it might give you something else to think about :)

[anuna_81]

I'm at the point where the thing I'm most excited about is.... my new handbag and vacation coming up in two weeks. I literally don't know what this year is going to bring, and I don't really have any grand plans. Just getting through this year, and I sense it's going to be hard. So.... little things I suppose.

[anuna_81]

Oh and to answer one of your questions - vampires. Definitely *nods*

[ladymercury_10]

Ooh, meme! I have had this open in a tab for several days and been too distracted to perpetuate it, haha.

I have heard good things about Nation! I actually took it out from the library at the beginning of the year and tried to start it, but then got derailed by greater interest in other books. (Which, the book I most recently finished is Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu, which is a collection of short science fiction stories, and it is absolutely fabulous. It's really inventive and has a lot of emotional resonance.)

[inkvoices]

Meme, meme, meme :)

I really like Nation! But then I like all Pratchett, so I'm biased ;) Ooo, not heard of that one *takes note*. I just finished Wonder by R J Palacio the other day. Very well done as far as handling the topic is concerned, loved the multiple perspections and the message of being 'kinder than necessary'.

[ladymercury_10]

Ooh, I just Googled Wonder and it sounds like a nice book. Yeah, I always think I should like Pratchett, because I love The Hitchhiker's Guide, and he seems to sort of has a similar sense of humor to Douglas Adams, but I have never managed to finish one of his solo books. I very much liked Good Omens, though. (I liked it much more than Neil Gaiman's solo books that I'd read, too, so they must complement each other well.)

[inkvoices]

Hmm, early Pratchett maybe, but I think Douglas Adams is a bit more...I can't find the right words right now, but different. Kind of more loose in terms of where the humour comes from, feels free-er, more Rober Rankin-esque, whilst Pratchett, as time goes on, gets more building up gags throughout a novel and a series, humour from people and the human condition, satire. Neil Gaiman's stand alones are more difficult to categorise genre-wise that Gaiman in collaboration, but more oddities that are fantasty-creepy-mythic-crazy. Good Omens I think is just really, really British and a certain time period of Britishness, but just really British *grins*.