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This Feels Like The Appropriate Place For This, Even If It's Just For Old Time's Sake
Merlin! *Merlin*! Dragons! Utterly gratuitous nakedness! "Sorry, is this supposed to be this gay?"! Sharks! Swords! Creepy dark flash-forwards! Dogs in cravats (that's a *massive* spoiler btw)! *Gawain*! Thoughts that won't fit in a tweet even though all these clearly did ( Read more... ) -
Book Meme- with added Elves
Day 28 - Thank God this book was made into a movie
Is anyone going to answer this with a book that isn't LotR? Really, anything that gives you that amazing story without having to slog through Tolkien's bloody prose would be worth celebrating, even if it had been rubbish. The fact they were amazing was just a bonus ( Read more... ) -
Book Meme- Day 27
Day 27 - A book where the main character is your idol
I've only ever had one literary heroine and she's here (click on that, read it all, you've got time).
Smart, clever, independent, stylish (two wolfskin coats), slightly morally flexible and carrying a concealed weapon. I'm not sure why a girl would want to grow up to be anyone else.
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Book Meme- Incredibly, Day 25
24 - Book that nobody would expect you read/loved itI'm not sure what you will have expected me not to read. I guess Patrick Gale's a bit out of my usual stuff-where-shit-blows-up sandpit. Ooh, I should have put him in the book you really didn't want to read category because the 'Richard & Judy Book Club' sticker nearly put me off entirely. I'd ( Read more... ) -
Book Meme Day 23 +1
Day 23 - Book on your shelf with the least pages
I'm making a rough definition of book, but the smallest thing I have that's properly bound and isn't a programme is a little 68 page book called The Archaeology Of Rabbit Warrens. It's remarkably fascinating.
Day 24 - Book that nobody would expect you read/loved itI know this is slightly cheating ( Read more... ) -
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Day 22 - Book on your shelf with the most pages
I strongly suspect it's The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction which is about a foot thick with onionskin pages, but that doesn't actually have page numbers. The biggest official one is Ash:A Secret History by Mary Gentle with 1120 pages in my paperback edition
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Book Meme- Day Unavailable
Day 17 - Close your eyes and get any book from your shelf
Several attempts at this have proved that I can in fact find any book on the shelf that I want, even with my eyes closed. That would be fairly normal, but is a bit freaky given that my bookshelves only went in about two months ago. If you want a totally random book then try this.
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Book Meme Day XVI
Day 16 - 9th book from the right on your shelfDepending on your definition of book- typically, the bottom righthandmost books on the bottom shelf (technically the floor) downstairs are a collection of bound site reports, guidebooks, pamplets and hitorical atlases. It's quite hard to count to nine without making some arbitrary decisions- it's either ( Read more... ) -
This Now Means I HaveTo See DKR At Least Three Times...
This may get added to as my elderly memory kicks in (I'm out of the habit of taking a notebook to the pictures). The fact I've been to a Marvel movie not once but twice is a worrying development.
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Book Meme Day XV (Which Has Its Own Inbuilt Logisitical Problems)
Day 15 - 4th book from the left on your shelf
Taking the top shelf (well the top of rather than the top actual shelf) of the lefthandmost bookshelf in my bedroom upstairs (because that feels like the right place to begin) it's Highlander- An Evening At Joe's, which it occurs to me I haven't read in years ( Read more... )