3 posts tagged “book meme”

[I began this last week, but am only just getting to post now.  Life has been full since then - a quick weekend trip, which was preceded by a minor crisis at home.  Smoke damage sucks.  Please return to your regular programming.]

I'm taking a page out of Jess's book blog.  Here' goes:

1. What author do you own the most books by?  Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman and J.K. Rowling.  And I'm not counting the entire Anne of Green Gables series which I snagged when our librarian was turfing a bunch of old copies last year.  I like them well enough, but I'm not over the moon like most folk, it's just something I feel I ought to have in my library and, c'mon - the have hard covers and were free!

2. What book do you own the most copies of?  The Bible.  Versions galore, including in Koine Greek which I can't read but my husband can.

3. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?  Faramir

4. What book have you read the most times in your life?  Hmmm... Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter, and perhaps some Bruno and Boots books. 

5. Favorite book as a ten year old? I Want to Go Home! by Gordon Korman.  Seriously, I would laugh out loud over and over again.  [Salate!]  After that, Babysitter's Club like any self-respecting 10-year-old.

6. What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year? Twilight, or perhaps the second one, New Moon, was it?

7. What is the best book you’ve read in the past year? What's So Amazing About Grace, followed by The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop.

8. If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be? Jess has the most awesome answer: "People shouldnt' be forced to read."  And the English teacher in me says, Yes!  Except, well, except for The Little Prince. ;)

9. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read? One: The Kite Runner, but becaue it contains kids and injustice and I read it when I was less than 2 months post partum.  If I'd read it when I was 17, it wouldn't have been nearly as gut wrenching.  Two: Vanity Fair because after about 200 pages I was thinking Alright Thackery, I get it!  Satire.  But no, I had to slog through another 300 pages because I had a paper coming my way.  Runners Up: Lolita and Jude the Obscure.

10. What are you reading right now? 2006 Best Science Writing, Ed. Atul Gawande.

Since enough time has passed, here you go.

1. Caravaggio walked into the kitchen, tore off a section of bread and followed Hana up the stairs. The English Patient - M. Ondaatje.
   

2. I do not want an intravenous unless it is necessary. Baby's Best Chance - B.C. Ministry of Health
   

3. That was more easily said than done. But after Uncle Andrew had struggled in vain with the hat for some time, two other policemen seized it by the brim and forced it off. The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
   

4. I thought about it later though and I decided that if Herod, a king, set out to murder Jesus, a carpenter's baby son, he would surely find some way to do it. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - B. Robinson
   

5. All light was gone. Darkness was complete.  A Wrinkle in Time - M. L'Engle
   

6. Elizabeth was chiefly struck with his extraordinary deference for Lady Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying his parishioners whenever it were required. Pride and Prejudice - J. Austen
   

7. At one end of the spectrum is the fatalism displayed in F. P. Grove's story “Snow.”  Survival - M. Atwood
   

8. He [a Benedictine friend] spoke of the maturity envisioned by the desert monks of the fourth century, as epitomized in thr advice one abba gave to another: “Receive a guest with the same attitude yo have when alone; when alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests...”  Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith - K. Norris
   

9. He wondered how long they had been flying, if felt like an hour at least.  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
   

10. My friend told me, “I remember standing before the plate-glass window in my living room, staring out into the darkness, waiting for her to come home.”  What's So Amazing About Grace - P. Yancey.
    

From Melanie.

Here are the instructions:
- Take ten books, and transcribe the fifth sentence from page fifty six.
- Make sure that at least five books are fiction, provide five hints, and pass the meme on to six other bloggers.

Clues

1. Caravaggio walked into the kitchen, tore off a section of bread and followed Hana up the stairs.

2. I do not want an intravenous unless it is necessary.

3. That was more easily said than done. But after Uncle Andrew had struggled in vain with the hat for some time, two other policemen seized it by the brim and forced it off.

4. I thought about it later though and I decided that if Herod, a king, set out to murder Jesus, a carpenter's baby son, he would surely find some way to do it.

5. All light was gone. Darkness was complete.

6. Elizabeth was chiefly struck with his extraordinary deference for Lady Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying his parishioners whenever it were required.

7. At one end of the spectrum is the fatalism displayed in F. P. Grove's story “Snow.”

8. He [a Benedictine friend] spoke of the maturity envisioned by the desert monks of the fourth century, as epitomized in thr advice one abba gave to another: “Receive a guest with the same attitude yo have when alone; when alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests...”

9. He wondered how long they had been flying, if felt like an hour at least.

10. My friend told me, “I remember standing before the plate-glass window in my living room, staring out into the darkness, waiting for her to come home.”

Hints

1. This author shares her last name with Fanny Price's aunt.

2. One is a Newberry award winner that initially had a hard time getting published because they figured a female protagonist in science fiction wouldn't fly.

3. Canadian literary criticism.

4. What the story of the Prodigal Son is all about/I've talked about this book here.

5. How the lamp post came to be.

Though this book really shouldn't need a hint, here's one anyway:

1. Two words: Colin Firth.

Come on, everyone – astound me with your book brilliance.

Tagged: Ginger_sister, Nacwolin, shush now, Lostdwarf, Foxsydee, Courtney. If and when you feel like something to do over the holidays.