When amongst sheep...

Apr 11, 2012 23:02

Stolen from brutti-ma-buoni in the first instance.

A meme about reading. )

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zanthinegirl April 11 2012, 22:33:46 UTC
Ooh, I kind of like this meme!

8. Do you carry a book with you everywhere you go? Pretty much. I have a terror of being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

Oh, me too! I used to always live in terror of finishing my book, so I'd often have an emergency backup book. Now I have a kindle with dozens of books. Win!

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gillo April 11 2012, 22:56:27 UTC
I have a Kindle full of stuff, but I need real books too. I'm just a dinosaur at heart, I think.

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zanthinegirl April 12 2012, 02:44:33 UTC
Oh, real books are best! But my kindle is easy to hold one-handed :D

BTW-- your icon is a disk world nod, right?

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gillo April 12 2012, 08:57:59 UTC
Yes indeed. We were Early Adopters of Discworld!

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zanthinegirl April 12 2012, 02:50:28 UTC
The Gutenburg Project is the best! Though I just did the Anne of Green Gables books instead of Middlemarch or Silas Marner.

I should reread Silas Marner though-- I was probably too young to really "get" it when we read it in 10th grade.

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gillo April 12 2012, 09:05:08 UTC
Gutenberg is amazing. At one stage I did quite a bit of proofreading for them at Distributed Proofreaders, which is another awesome idea.

I've taught Silas Marner at Year 10 and Y11 level, but it does tend to go "whoosh" past a lot of heads at that age, though they enjoy the mystery. It's well worth returning to.

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gillo April 12 2012, 09:01:53 UTC
Yes - I really ought to do some sort of reading round-up, but there are so many books I'd have to write about.

I thoroughly enjoyed Hunger Games and its sequels, though the ultimate conclusion is depressing, if all-too-plausible.
No, I haven't read the book by Green.

And, yes - I've actually read almost everything Eliot wrote, at university if not since. I've taught Silas Marner a few times, too. Mary Anne Evans came from quite close to here - between Coventry and Hinckley, where you went to that Con. She is third in my beloved novelists list, after Austen and Dickens.

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kazzy_cee April 12 2012, 16:29:01 UTC
That last question is quite hard isn't it! Good answers :)

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gillo April 12 2012, 17:02:47 UTC
That last question is almost as hard as "What is your favourite book?"

What do you mean, only one?

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