Book Memes!
It's really supposed to be for 31 days, but I just can't be bothered to do it for that long ;D
Borrowed from brinchen86
Day 1- A book you are reading right now
I finally bit the bullet and began reading 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' by Stieg Larsson. Gotta say, creepier than the film.
Day 2 - The book you want to read next
Once I finish this series, I'll be moving onto 'The Dark Tower' series by Stephen King. A friend of mine is a huge fan and I trust his judgement.
Day 3 - Your favourite book
I will have to go with the only book that has ever made me cry: 'Kane and Abel' by Jeffrey Archer. That was just...perfection, as far as I am concerned. It made me fall in love with the written word as well as made me think that it would be so cool if I could write. Argh! That ending! I'm pretty sure that's where my love for heart-wrenching angst has come from.
Day 4 - Book you hate
I'm sorry to whoever is a fan, but that would be 'Twilight' by Stephenie Meyer. It's one of the few books that I have never been able to complete. I couldn't relate to Bella at all, and her voice as a protagonist made me dislike her character practically from the get go.
Day 5 - A Book you can read again and again
Any of the 'Harry Potter' books. It's great for light reading.
Day 6 - A book you can only read once (no matter you love or hate it)
'The Lord of the Rings' by J. R. R. Tolkien. I've only ever read it properly once, every other reading has been mostly skipping description and following the dialogue. It's a very heavy book to read and I have to be in the right mentality when I do read it, even though the story is one of my all time favourites. It's the book that's dedicated just to Frodo, Sam and Smeagol, that I'm mostly thinking of. That section is the slowest in the story. Everything else is pretty interesting and moves at a faster pace.
Day 7 - Book that reminds you of someone
That would be the collection of 'Sherlock Holmes: Novels and Short Stories' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It reminds me of my boyfriend because he loved these stories so much when he was a kid and he bought the books for my birthday. I now associate the books with him.
Day 8 - Book that reminds you of a certain place
My gigantic book that has the complete collection of Greek Mythological stories. It was a gift from an uncle, and I spent six weeks of my vacation in Canada trying to read every single story whenever I could.
Day 9 - The first book you ever read
I can't remember, but I bet it was a fairytale.
Day 10 - Book from your favourite author
'A Storm of Swords' by George R. R. Martin. The twists just keep on coming. I have never read a book that took me so completely by surprise.
Day 11 - Book you once loved and now hate
I used to love anything that John Grisham wrote, but now, not so much.
Day 12 - Book that a friend recommended
'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho. Gorgeous and lovely. So glad I read it.
Day 13 - Book that makes you laugh
'Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less' by Jeffrey Archer. I learned so much from that book, and I love it to bits. I read it whenever I feel like it, which is often.
Day 14 - Book from your childhood
Famous Five, Secret Seven, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys, take your pick :D
Day 15 - 4th book from the left on your shelf
'My Feudal Lord' by Tehmina Durrani. Not the first book I've read regarding abused women, and certainly won't be the last.
Day 16 - 9th book from the right on your shelf
The complete collection of 'Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'.
Day 17 - Close your eyes and get any book from your shelf
'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll. Ah! A book from my childhood too.
Day 18 - Book with the most beautiful cover
My Harry Potter collection!!! I really love black backgrounds ^_^
Day 19 - Book that you never wanted to read
Twilight. My best friend loves it to bits, so when she wanted me to, I read it, and I couldn't finish it.
Day 20 - Book that you read at school
'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen. How else are you supposed to believe in a Mr. Darcy? ;D
Day 21 - Most stupid book you read at school
'The English Teacher' by R. K. Narayan. Oh, God! Enough with the cow already. I understand that it had a lot of lovely imagery, but it drove me nuts because of it's randomness.
Day 22 - Book on your shelf with the most pages
Besides the Dictionary, I'm guessing it has to be 'A Dance With Dragons' by George R. R. Martin.
Day 23 - Book on your shelf with the least pages
My old 'Little Mermaid' book. It's the one where the mermaid doesn't kill the prince and dies, turning into foam. Also, there are pictures! :D
Day 24 - Book that nobody would expect you read/loved it
I am not a huge fan of Mills & Boon stuff, but I did end up reading one of my mother's books when I didn't have anything to read, and I kind of liked it. Can't remember the name and won't read it again, but still...
Day 25 - A book where the main character is almost like you
Kinda, sorta, embarrassing, but... Sultana in 'The Princess Trilogy' by Jean Sasson. She did things that I would have done, and what I have already done.
Day 26 - Book you would read to your children
HARRY POTTER most definitely. They need to learn those good lessons.
Day 27 - A book where the main character is your idol
Lucy from 'The Chronicles of Narnia' by C. S. Lewis. To be that innocent, honest and good is something I would like to strive for.
Day 28 - Thank God this book was made into a movie
Not movie. TV show. Game of Thrones, baby! I had so many questions from the books that I was happy they were answered in the tv show (eg:- Did Stannis and Melisandre create little king-killing, baby shadows together?). And even though I despise what they did to the Robb/Cat/Jeyne story-line, and the fact that they are calling Asha, Yara, I love every other aspect of it. From the casting, to the sets and the dialogue. I think the actors are making it work... Also, now we have an excuse to write fanfiction!!! :D
Day 29 - Darn, why did they make this book into a movie?
Nothing comes to mind... Why isn't anything coming to mind?
Day 30 - First erotic book you ever read
I was thirteen and I didn't know it was an erotic book until the guy's thoughts went straight southward. Can't remember the name or the author, but it was a western, and it was a coming-of-age story of a young girl who falls for a womanising jerk, but who falls in love with her in the end. But, it doesn't work out because they are both stubborn, and even though they can't live with each other, they can't live without each other either. That's all I remember.
Day 31 - Book series you are collecting
I am currently collecting 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R. R. Martin, who needs to finish the last two books pronto. Everything else that I have are completed.
Please, Mr. Martin! Finish 'Winds of Winter' as soon as you can!!!
Borrowed from lainemontgomery
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Put an asterick next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Borrowed from brinchen86
Day 1- A book you are reading right now
I finally bit the bullet and began reading 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' by Stieg Larsson. Gotta say, creepier than the film.
Day 2 - The book you want to read next
Once I finish this series, I'll be moving onto 'The Dark Tower' series by Stephen King. A friend of mine is a huge fan and I trust his judgement.
Day 3 - Your favourite book
I will have to go with the only book that has ever made me cry: 'Kane and Abel' by Jeffrey Archer. That was just...perfection, as far as I am concerned. It made me fall in love with the written word as well as made me think that it would be so cool if I could write. Argh! That ending! I'm pretty sure that's where my love for heart-wrenching angst has come from.
Day 4 - Book you hate
I'm sorry to whoever is a fan, but that would be 'Twilight' by Stephenie Meyer. It's one of the few books that I have never been able to complete. I couldn't relate to Bella at all, and her voice as a protagonist made me dislike her character practically from the get go.
Day 5 - A Book you can read again and again
Any of the 'Harry Potter' books. It's great for light reading.
Day 6 - A book you can only read once (no matter you love or hate it)
'The Lord of the Rings' by J. R. R. Tolkien. I've only ever read it properly once, every other reading has been mostly skipping description and following the dialogue. It's a very heavy book to read and I have to be in the right mentality when I do read it, even though the story is one of my all time favourites. It's the book that's dedicated just to Frodo, Sam and Smeagol, that I'm mostly thinking of. That section is the slowest in the story. Everything else is pretty interesting and moves at a faster pace.
Day 7 - Book that reminds you of someone
That would be the collection of 'Sherlock Holmes: Novels and Short Stories' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It reminds me of my boyfriend because he loved these stories so much when he was a kid and he bought the books for my birthday. I now associate the books with him.
Day 8 - Book that reminds you of a certain place
My gigantic book that has the complete collection of Greek Mythological stories. It was a gift from an uncle, and I spent six weeks of my vacation in Canada trying to read every single story whenever I could.
Day 9 - The first book you ever read
I can't remember, but I bet it was a fairytale.
Day 10 - Book from your favourite author
'A Storm of Swords' by George R. R. Martin. The twists just keep on coming. I have never read a book that took me so completely by surprise.
Day 11 - Book you once loved and now hate
I used to love anything that John Grisham wrote, but now, not so much.
Day 12 - Book that a friend recommended
'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho. Gorgeous and lovely. So glad I read it.
Day 13 - Book that makes you laugh
'Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less' by Jeffrey Archer. I learned so much from that book, and I love it to bits. I read it whenever I feel like it, which is often.
Day 14 - Book from your childhood
Famous Five, Secret Seven, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys, take your pick :D
Day 15 - 4th book from the left on your shelf
'My Feudal Lord' by Tehmina Durrani. Not the first book I've read regarding abused women, and certainly won't be the last.
Day 16 - 9th book from the right on your shelf
The complete collection of 'Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'.
Day 17 - Close your eyes and get any book from your shelf
'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll. Ah! A book from my childhood too.
Day 18 - Book with the most beautiful cover
My Harry Potter collection!!! I really love black backgrounds ^_^
Day 19 - Book that you never wanted to read
Twilight. My best friend loves it to bits, so when she wanted me to, I read it, and I couldn't finish it.
Day 20 - Book that you read at school
'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen. How else are you supposed to believe in a Mr. Darcy? ;D
Day 21 - Most stupid book you read at school
'The English Teacher' by R. K. Narayan. Oh, God! Enough with the cow already. I understand that it had a lot of lovely imagery, but it drove me nuts because of it's randomness.
Day 22 - Book on your shelf with the most pages
Besides the Dictionary, I'm guessing it has to be 'A Dance With Dragons' by George R. R. Martin.
Day 23 - Book on your shelf with the least pages
My old 'Little Mermaid' book. It's the one where the mermaid doesn't kill the prince and dies, turning into foam. Also, there are pictures! :D
Day 24 - Book that nobody would expect you read/loved it
I am not a huge fan of Mills & Boon stuff, but I did end up reading one of my mother's books when I didn't have anything to read, and I kind of liked it. Can't remember the name and won't read it again, but still...
Day 25 - A book where the main character is almost like you
Kinda, sorta, embarrassing, but... Sultana in 'The Princess Trilogy' by Jean Sasson. She did things that I would have done, and what I have already done.
Day 26 - Book you would read to your children
HARRY POTTER most definitely. They need to learn those good lessons.
Day 27 - A book where the main character is your idol
Lucy from 'The Chronicles of Narnia' by C. S. Lewis. To be that innocent, honest and good is something I would like to strive for.
Day 28 - Thank God this book was made into a movie
Not movie. TV show. Game of Thrones, baby! I had so many questions from the books that I was happy they were answered in the tv show (eg:- Did Stannis and Melisandre create little king-killing, baby shadows together?). And even though I despise what they did to the Robb/Cat/Jeyne story-line, and the fact that they are calling Asha, Yara, I love every other aspect of it. From the casting, to the sets and the dialogue. I think the actors are making it work... Also, now we have an excuse to write fanfiction!!! :D
Day 29 - Darn, why did they make this book into a movie?
Nothing comes to mind... Why isn't anything coming to mind?
Day 30 - First erotic book you ever read
I was thirteen and I didn't know it was an erotic book until the guy's thoughts went straight southward. Can't remember the name or the author, but it was a western, and it was a coming-of-age story of a young girl who falls for a womanising jerk, but who falls in love with her in the end. But, it doesn't work out because they are both stubborn, and even though they can't live with each other, they can't live without each other either. That's all I remember.
Day 31 - Book series you are collecting
I am currently collecting 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R. R. Martin, who needs to finish the last two books pronto. Everything else that I have are completed.
Please, Mr. Martin! Finish 'Winds of Winter' as soon as you can!!!
Borrowed from lainemontgomery
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Put an asterick next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo