LadyofAstolat's book meme
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king_pellinor1. How many books do you own?
Same as LadyofAstolat, only I'm not allowed to read some of hers in case I bend the spine
2. What type of books do they tend to be?
Lots of second-hand SF; Pratchett and Robert Rankin; classical literature (more Greek then Roman); a chunk of Arthurian and other dark age to mediaeval literature; military history (especially N Africa 1940-43 and mediaeval weapons & armour); some popular science; folk music.
3. How are they organised?
I leave them on the coffee table or in the kitchen and LadyofAstolat shelves them somewhere. I tend to browse to find what I need as I have no firm idea of the organisation.
4. Where do you like to read?
Anywhere at all. Mostly on the ferry and while walking while commuting; also during loading screens on PC games, and in the bathroom.
5. Have you ever done something because someone in a book did it?
I have trouble realising why I do anything, never mind this sort of thing! Probably, especially if you count the longsword training manuals.
6. Whose recommendations do you listen to?
LadyofAstolat, to an extent; I tend to use serendipity, mostly.
7. Do you prefer to read books in one sitting, or to read a little at a time?
I tend to read while doing something else, ususally travelling and/or knitting. To that extent I'd rather be a little at a time, as there are many things I'd rather be doing than travelling.
8. Which forthcoming book are you most looking forward to?
Nothing, particularly.
9. Which book has been the greatest disappointment to you?
I don't get easily disappointed. The Amber Spyglass didn't really seem to finish. Richard Burton's Book of the Sword is the other one that springs to mind: I found that it was only volume one of three, and despite referring to all the good bits coming up he never wrote the other two.
10. What can make you throw a book down in disgust, even if you'd been enjoying it up to that point?
I can't think of anything. Probably blatantly inaccurate descriptions of armour and weapons and the effects of the one upon the other would come closest.
11. What sort of book will you not even contemplate picking up, even if you were stuck in a doctor's waiting room for two hours and it was the only reading material there?
A really really heavy one. I'd leave it on the table and read it there.
12. What was your favourite book at 5? 8? 11? 14?
I don't tend to play favourites much
5 - The one I remember is A Fly Went By, a big long cumulative poem about a fly chased by a frog, who ran from the cat who ran from the dog, etc
8 - probably Lord of the Rings
11 - Too many to mention, I think. Perhaps the Silmarillion.
14 - Too many to mention, I think.
13. Which series did you use at school when learning to read?
The same one as my littlest sister was using when we went to visit a little while ago - lots of stories from assorted mythologies and cultures. For the C-A-T stage I can't remember, unless it was something with Dick and Dora in.
14. Did studying a book at school ruin that book for you?
Not really. The sort of books we read at school are the sort I tend to read out of a sense of duty rather than pleasure.
15. What is your book equivalent of junk food?
Pratchett, Ranking, Star Wars and Star Trek books.
16. What do you read when you're ill?
Junk food, unless I'm playing on the PC. Getting into a PC game tends to absorb my brain so much that I don't notice that I'm ill. If I can't use the PC (eg for a migraine) I can't read either.
17. Which is normally better: the book, or the film?
Apples are really bad by orange standards.
18. Which book character would you like to sit next to on a train journey from Penzance to Inverness?
Professor Slocombe from the Brentford Trilogy
19. What book character would you like to be on your side when alien armies invade from the planet Xarg?
Slippery Jim DiGriz. Or The Bank from Dark Side of the Sun.
20. Which book character would you like to imprison for life in an unpleasant cell with only a mean-spirited rat for company?
I tend not to read books which have characters that annoy me so intensely. Perhaps Joffrey, Cersei or Lysa from A Song of Ice and Fire.
21. Which character would you like to sit next to at school?
Probably one of Diana Wynne Jones's child heroes: Cat or Conrad. Or maybe one of the Exiles.
22. What was the last book you opened?
Top Hats in Tobruk, by Ken Rankin.
23. What book(s) do you have on the go at the moment?
Top Hats in Tobruk, by Ken Rankin.
24. What's on your "to read" list?
I don't have one
25. Recommend up to five books or series.
Techniques of Mediaeval Armour Reproduction
SPADA - various authors, published by Chivalry Bookshelf in 2 volumes (so far)
Watching the English by Kate Fox
The Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin
Parkinson's Law
Same as LadyofAstolat, only I'm not allowed to read some of hers in case I bend the spine
2. What type of books do they tend to be?
Lots of second-hand SF; Pratchett and Robert Rankin; classical literature (more Greek then Roman); a chunk of Arthurian and other dark age to mediaeval literature; military history (especially N Africa 1940-43 and mediaeval weapons & armour); some popular science; folk music.
3. How are they organised?
I leave them on the coffee table or in the kitchen and LadyofAstolat shelves them somewhere. I tend to browse to find what I need as I have no firm idea of the organisation.
4. Where do you like to read?
Anywhere at all. Mostly on the ferry and while walking while commuting; also during loading screens on PC games, and in the bathroom.
5. Have you ever done something because someone in a book did it?
I have trouble realising why I do anything, never mind this sort of thing! Probably, especially if you count the longsword training manuals.
6. Whose recommendations do you listen to?
LadyofAstolat, to an extent; I tend to use serendipity, mostly.
7. Do you prefer to read books in one sitting, or to read a little at a time?
I tend to read while doing something else, ususally travelling and/or knitting. To that extent I'd rather be a little at a time, as there are many things I'd rather be doing than travelling.
8. Which forthcoming book are you most looking forward to?
Nothing, particularly.
9. Which book has been the greatest disappointment to you?
I don't get easily disappointed. The Amber Spyglass didn't really seem to finish. Richard Burton's Book of the Sword is the other one that springs to mind: I found that it was only volume one of three, and despite referring to all the good bits coming up he never wrote the other two.
10. What can make you throw a book down in disgust, even if you'd been enjoying it up to that point?
I can't think of anything. Probably blatantly inaccurate descriptions of armour and weapons and the effects of the one upon the other would come closest.
11. What sort of book will you not even contemplate picking up, even if you were stuck in a doctor's waiting room for two hours and it was the only reading material there?
A really really heavy one. I'd leave it on the table and read it there.
12. What was your favourite book at 5? 8? 11? 14?
I don't tend to play favourites much
5 - The one I remember is A Fly Went By, a big long cumulative poem about a fly chased by a frog, who ran from the cat who ran from the dog, etc
8 - probably Lord of the Rings
11 - Too many to mention, I think. Perhaps the Silmarillion.
14 - Too many to mention, I think.
13. Which series did you use at school when learning to read?
The same one as my littlest sister was using when we went to visit a little while ago - lots of stories from assorted mythologies and cultures. For the C-A-T stage I can't remember, unless it was something with Dick and Dora in.
14. Did studying a book at school ruin that book for you?
Not really. The sort of books we read at school are the sort I tend to read out of a sense of duty rather than pleasure.
15. What is your book equivalent of junk food?
Pratchett, Ranking, Star Wars and Star Trek books.
16. What do you read when you're ill?
Junk food, unless I'm playing on the PC. Getting into a PC game tends to absorb my brain so much that I don't notice that I'm ill. If I can't use the PC (eg for a migraine) I can't read either.
17. Which is normally better: the book, or the film?
Apples are really bad by orange standards.
18. Which book character would you like to sit next to on a train journey from Penzance to Inverness?
Professor Slocombe from the Brentford Trilogy
19. What book character would you like to be on your side when alien armies invade from the planet Xarg?
Slippery Jim DiGriz. Or The Bank from Dark Side of the Sun.
20. Which book character would you like to imprison for life in an unpleasant cell with only a mean-spirited rat for company?
I tend not to read books which have characters that annoy me so intensely. Perhaps Joffrey, Cersei or Lysa from A Song of Ice and Fire.
21. Which character would you like to sit next to at school?
Probably one of Diana Wynne Jones's child heroes: Cat or Conrad. Or maybe one of the Exiles.
22. What was the last book you opened?
Top Hats in Tobruk, by Ken Rankin.
23. What book(s) do you have on the go at the moment?
Top Hats in Tobruk, by Ken Rankin.
24. What's on your "to read" list?
I don't have one
25. Recommend up to five books or series.
Techniques of Mediaeval Armour Reproduction
SPADA - various authors, published by Chivalry Bookshelf in 2 volumes (so far)
Watching the English by Kate Fox
The Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin
Parkinson's Law
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