Mi Chiamano Meme

[pjthompson]

Two memes in one.  Can you stand the excitement.


Book meme

Taken from both riemannia and sartorias.

--Hardback or paperback?

Paperback.  Can't usually afford the hardcovers, plus they weight too much.  :-)

--Highlight or underline?

Mostly underline with pencil, but occasional highlights (mostly in bibliographies).  I am a nerd and carry a pencil/pen holder in my purse.  (Oh, the shame!)

--Lewis or Tolkien?

Tolkien

--E.B. White or A.A. Milne?

Neither.  I'm afraid I've never read/had read to me either one.  Smoky and My Friend Flicka and Black Beauty.  See a theme?

--T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings?

Both.

--Stephen King or Dean Koontz?

Neither.  If forced to choose, King.

--Barnes & Noble or Borders?

Barnes & Noble.

--Waldenbooks or B. Dalton?

Waldenbooks when I could still find them.

--Fantasy or science fiction?

Both, though mostly not high fantasy.  I like urban/contemporary and dark fantasy most.  And I tend to buy authors rather than classification.

--Horror or suspense?

Suspense.

--Bookmark or dogear?

Bookmark!

--Hemingway or Faulkner?

Faulkner.

--Fitzgerald or Steinbeck?

Fitzgerald.  Or sometimes Steinbeck.

--Homer or Plato?

I like them for such different reasons. Language for Homer, metaphors for Plato.  So both. 

--Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser?

Chaucer!  He's got a great bawdy.

--Pen or pencil?

Pens--except when underlining.  Love a nice medium point blue, the way it smooths across the page.

--Looseleaf or notepad?

Spiralbound notebook, 8-1/2 x 11 size.

--Alphabetize:

Nuh-uh.  By category, though.

--Dustjacket: on or off?

Off while reading.  Got to protect the pretty pictures on the cover.  On while in the shelves or lending out.

--Novella or epic?

Depends on my mood and the subject matter.

--John Grisham or Scott Turow?

I've haven't read either.

--J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket?

You see, I've got this thing.  When everyone in the universe tells me I have to read something, I tend to get very stubborn and not read it.  Especially when they try to guilt me into it by saying I'm dead wrong and missing the most wonderful experience on the planet. 

--John Irving or John Updike?

Updike.  One of his images has stuck in my brain since high school.  And Irving's too impressed with himself, IMNSHO.

--Fiction or non-fiction?

Both.  I currently read more fiction, but I love the excitement of complex ideas, science, juicy history.  I wouldn't want to do without either.

--Historical biography or historical romance?

Biography, though I read romance, and my favorite history reading falls into neither category.  I like reading about cultures and movements and ideas and philosophies, et al.

--A few pages per sitting or finish at least a chapter?

When possible, I read until some kind of end—either end of section or end of chapter.  I hate to stop reading in the middle of a scene.  This springs, I believe, from the same impulse that causes me to carry a pencil holder in my purse.  You may call it anality if you like.

--Short story or creative non-fiction essay?

Both.

--"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?

Stormy night.

--Buy or borrow?

Buy.  Inspired by riemannia I recently counted my TBR pile.  It was a horrifically high number, much more than I thought it would be.  I beg people not to lend me books.

--Book reviews or word of mouth?

Both.  Or reading the backs of books in bookstores is almost as common.


Three Thing Meme

Taken from sosostris who took it from ultharkitty.

THREE THINGS I AM WEARING RIGHT NOW:
hiking boots
a dusty rose turtleneck
a silver filigree watch with a lotus pattern

THREE THINGS YOU HAVE BOUGHT RECENTLY:
Black Moon Lilith by M. Kelly Hunter
dusty purple jeans
nachos

THREE THINGS ON YOUR DESK
The Onion Ad Nauseam calendar
unpacked boxes
my coffee cup (the most important peripheral)

THREE THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT
writing
books
nachos (okay, that one's not serious which brings us to the real number three:  a sense of humor)

THREE THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
sell a book...or two or three
more traveling!
fall crazy in love again

THREE GOOD WAYS TO DESCRIBE MY PERSONALITY
INFJ
puckish
intense

THREE PARTS OF MY HERITAGE
Scots
Irish
Welsh (or Celtic, Celtic, Celtic) (I'm not claiming the German and English and French parts) (not that there's anything wrong with them, they're just a small percentage) (oh, and can I add loquacious to the part about my personality?)

THREE THINGS I LIKE ABOUT MY BODY
my auburn hair
my long legs
my fingernails which are quite long and strong these days

THREE THINGS I DON'T LIKE ABOUT MY BODY
This isn't fun anymore.
My lack of a thyroid gland
My sensitive stomach
My size ten feet (although they do admittedly go with being tall)

THREE THINGS PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME
I love the free, fresh wind in my hair
Life without care
I'm broke, but it's o'k
(name that Sinatra tune in seven notes)

THREE THINGS I SAY THE MOST
fuck
actually
oy

THREE PLACES I WANT TO GO
Greece
India
Egypt

THREE NAMES I GO BY
PJ
Pamela
Kiddo (miss you, dad)

THREE SCREENNAMES I HAVE HAD
sapelle
pjbones
springc

THREE THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD NEVER DONE
dated Lee the big fat jerk
sat up all night in a hospital waiting room
eaten that mystery meat taco in Mexico

THREE REASONS YOU COMPLETED THIS SURVEY
It's fun
It's late in the day and late in the week
Because it's easier than thinking or writing

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Yay auburn hair! :-)

I'll have to steal these soon...