meme nicked from kcscribbler, with some real life stuff tacked onto the end
Meme yoinked from kcscribbler , because my life is awhirl with last minute money making endeavors so that I don't go completely broke in the next year and I need a break!
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. We're not looking for the 15 greatest books ever written here, we're looking for ones that are favorites, that rattled how you look at things, and gave you an 'Ah hah!' moment.
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Last Hero (I would put the whole of the Discworld series, because they will definitely all stick with me in some way, but that's over thirty separate stories, so I chose the first one I ever read, and my favorite)
3. Good Omens
4. The Japanese book of Fairy Tales (which I grew up thinking were ones everyone knew, and continued to think that until last year when I brought up Momotaro and everyone was like o_O)
5. The Green Man short story anthology
6. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
7. The House at Pooh Corner (probably one of the first books ever read to me, from before I could talk, and still definitely one of my favorites)
8. Artemis Fowl
9. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (okay so it's a play)
10. Neverwhere
11. Watchmen
12. Rise and Shine, Mariko-chan! (I remember sitting on the floor of the hallway and reading this when I was very little. It was awesome.)
13. The Once and Future King
14. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
15. The Canterbury Tales
I head back to school on the 28th, which I'm really looking forward to. The past month and a half has been full of jobs. I have a somewhat official job building a website, which pays minimum wage but is good work. Of course I have been teaching myself web design this whole time, so the code is really amateurish and ugly, but I'm slowly improving it. When my employer asked my dad if she could hire me, I made sure to tell her I hadn't had any professional experience, but she said I'd do fine, and she seems really enthusiastic about what I've done, so, yay, I guess :D
The rest of my life has been full of various pet-sitting jobs. The most recent one involved caring for baby chickens, two cats, and fish (which is basically what I have to deal with at home, only most of my chickens are adults). On the first night the chicks learned how to escape their pen, which meant I was running through the woods chasing tiny chickens. It was an experience.
On the other hand I have begun packing, unlike last year when I packed everything the night before I had to leave, so I'm getting better at life :)
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. We're not looking for the 15 greatest books ever written here, we're looking for ones that are favorites, that rattled how you look at things, and gave you an 'Ah hah!' moment.
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Last Hero (I would put the whole of the Discworld series, because they will definitely all stick with me in some way, but that's over thirty separate stories, so I chose the first one I ever read, and my favorite)
3. Good Omens
4. The Japanese book of Fairy Tales (which I grew up thinking were ones everyone knew, and continued to think that until last year when I brought up Momotaro and everyone was like o_O)
5. The Green Man short story anthology
6. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
7. The House at Pooh Corner (probably one of the first books ever read to me, from before I could talk, and still definitely one of my favorites)
8. Artemis Fowl
9. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (okay so it's a play)
10. Neverwhere
11. Watchmen
12. Rise and Shine, Mariko-chan! (I remember sitting on the floor of the hallway and reading this when I was very little. It was awesome.)
13. The Once and Future King
14. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
15. The Canterbury Tales
I head back to school on the 28th, which I'm really looking forward to. The past month and a half has been full of jobs. I have a somewhat official job building a website, which pays minimum wage but is good work. Of course I have been teaching myself web design this whole time, so the code is really amateurish and ugly, but I'm slowly improving it. When my employer asked my dad if she could hire me, I made sure to tell her I hadn't had any professional experience, but she said I'd do fine, and she seems really enthusiastic about what I've done, so, yay, I guess :D
The rest of my life has been full of various pet-sitting jobs. The most recent one involved caring for baby chickens, two cats, and fish (which is basically what I have to deal with at home, only most of my chickens are adults). On the first night the chicks learned how to escape their pen, which meant I was running through the woods chasing tiny chickens. It was an experience.
On the other hand I have begun packing, unlike last year when I packed everything the night before I had to leave, so I'm getting better at life :)