Hmm, interesting meme.  The hard part is limiting myself to only 15, because I pick at least one favorite character in everything I read. And I'm just now over 600 books on LibraryThing, and not finished cataloging. >.<

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different series, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're ( Read more... )

This one from seawasp.

1) What author do you own the most books by? Not sure. With the weekend's acquisitions, I have 32 Saint books, so that's probably the highest.  The Agatha Christie and Nancy Drew collections surpass that, but both are jointly owned by my mother and I. And the majority of the Louis L'Amours are Nathan's.

2) What book do you own ( Read more... )

Since I have to. I guess.

;-)

Pith helmets are fantastic.  Mine is the honest-to-goodness African explorer look.  It's pretty big (the pith is at least 1/2" thick) but incredibly light.  For ventilation, there are eyelets in the sides of the crown, and the knob at the top is actually a vent.  Bro. No. 2 discovered that in a wind, the eyelets can ( Read more... )

Swiped from Everybody and his dog:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

I'm glad I didn't do this when I had 50+ sci fi ( Read more... )