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A book meme, because I love books and memes are fun.
♥ The book that’s been on your shelves the longest:
Probably Julie by Jean Craighead George. I bought it at the school book fair in second grade because it had an interesting cover (leave me alone, I was seven!) and my teacher, knowing it was rather above the typical second grader's reading level, wrote a letter home to my parents, concerned that they were pushing me to read beyond my capabilities. Which wasn't at all the case, I just liked to read, but she didn't believe me, and I guess felt vindicated when I asked her during reading time later that week what an afterbirth was.
♥ A book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time):
I've read Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell to pieces no less than seven times in the thirteen years since my mother presented me with my first copy. I've received copies as gifts at several pivotal points in my life.
♥ A book you acquired in some interesting way:
None of my methods of acquiring books are especially interesting. Thrifting, library sales, using gift cards, begging books off friends and forgetting to return them.
♥ The book that’s been with you to the most places:
The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye has been to South Dakota, Illinois, and Maryland with me, as well as all over my own state. That probably makes it the most extensively traveled book in my collection. Failing that, Gone With The Wind again. It's excellent for taking on trips.
♥ The most recent addition to your shelves:
Friday at Goodwill I picked up It by Stephen King, one of the last of his books I didn't own, and Forging the Darksword and Triumph of the Darksword. Funny story about the latter: this is the third set of (pieces of) that trilogy I've come to own; all have been thrifted. The first copy of Forging was missing a chunk of about forty pages, so dad picked up a boxed set of the trilogy for me when he next saw it so that I could actually read Forging. Then I lent the whole shebang to my best friend, who took it back to college with her and promptly lost it. I still had the mangled copy of Forging, as well as the second book, Doom of the Darksword, so when I happened to see the trilogy yet again the other day I picked up Forging and Triumph so it could be complete again. The incomplete first book will probably become paper roses or something, I don't know.
♥ Your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next:
In order: The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, and Stardust by Neil Gaiman. After Stardust, I've got The Graveyard Book, also by Neil Gaiman, as well as Neuromancer by William Gibson checked out from the library, so they'll be next. And I believe Exquisite Corpse and The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite are waiting to be picked up from the library, too.
Today was spent in gun safety class at the gun range I didn't even know was five minutes from my house, because my dad is set on buying a gun and wants us all to know how to use it. My hands hurt from loading magazines and I smell like gunpowder, but I am now certified in Gun Safety Procedure and Basic Pistol. And hey, at least now when I write about a character owning or using a gun, I won't sound quite so clueless.
I wore skull socks and a bustle skirt to the gun range. (I asked dad what a lady should wear to gun class, and he said she should just dress the way she always does, so I did.) I gotta be me, baby.
♥ The book that’s been on your shelves the longest:
Probably Julie by Jean Craighead George. I bought it at the school book fair in second grade because it had an interesting cover (leave me alone, I was seven!) and my teacher, knowing it was rather above the typical second grader's reading level, wrote a letter home to my parents, concerned that they were pushing me to read beyond my capabilities. Which wasn't at all the case, I just liked to read, but she didn't believe me, and I guess felt vindicated when I asked her during reading time later that week what an afterbirth was.
♥ A book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time):
I've read Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell to pieces no less than seven times in the thirteen years since my mother presented me with my first copy. I've received copies as gifts at several pivotal points in my life.
♥ A book you acquired in some interesting way:
None of my methods of acquiring books are especially interesting. Thrifting, library sales, using gift cards, begging books off friends and forgetting to return them.
♥ The book that’s been with you to the most places:
The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye has been to South Dakota, Illinois, and Maryland with me, as well as all over my own state. That probably makes it the most extensively traveled book in my collection. Failing that, Gone With The Wind again. It's excellent for taking on trips.
♥ The most recent addition to your shelves:
Friday at Goodwill I picked up It by Stephen King, one of the last of his books I didn't own, and Forging the Darksword and Triumph of the Darksword. Funny story about the latter: this is the third set of (pieces of) that trilogy I've come to own; all have been thrifted. The first copy of Forging was missing a chunk of about forty pages, so dad picked up a boxed set of the trilogy for me when he next saw it so that I could actually read Forging. Then I lent the whole shebang to my best friend, who took it back to college with her and promptly lost it. I still had the mangled copy of Forging, as well as the second book, Doom of the Darksword, so when I happened to see the trilogy yet again the other day I picked up Forging and Triumph so it could be complete again. The incomplete first book will probably become paper roses or something, I don't know.
♥ Your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next:
In order: The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, and Stardust by Neil Gaiman. After Stardust, I've got The Graveyard Book, also by Neil Gaiman, as well as Neuromancer by William Gibson checked out from the library, so they'll be next. And I believe Exquisite Corpse and The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite are waiting to be picked up from the library, too.
Today was spent in gun safety class at the gun range I didn't even know was five minutes from my house, because my dad is set on buying a gun and wants us all to know how to use it. My hands hurt from loading magazines and I smell like gunpowder, but I am now certified in Gun Safety Procedure and Basic Pistol. And hey, at least now when I write about a character owning or using a gun, I won't sound quite so clueless.
I wore skull socks and a bustle skirt to the gun range. (I asked dad what a lady should wear to gun class, and he said she should just dress the way she always does, so I did.) I gotta be me, baby.