ok... 's convinced me to do it

ON TO THE MEME

So, you can read! Congrats!
Are you reading a book right now? How far are you into it and what do you think so far? If you're not, what was the last book you read and how did you feel about it?

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets... but its like the 3rd time I read it I've read the whole series at least once... don't ask me why I've read some books more than the others I really like them... they make me cry every time

Do you have a favorite book? Do you have... a book you really liked, at least?

Favourite one... uhmmm that's complicated... one of them would be The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov, time travel and its consequences yay!!

What would you say is your favorite genre to read? What to tend to steer away from?

Favorite genre: Fantasy

Do you read more fiction or non-fiction/information books?

Fiction... I think the only non-fiction books I read are textbooks

How about a favorite author, or perhaps a few?

uhmmm... I'll go with JRR Tolkien,

Have you read any terrible books? Something you'd recommend staying away from?

Terrible... uhmmm no... there are some that may not like me, but hey if you want to read them I won't stop you

Do you reread books, or is once enough? Any exceptions so far?

Yes, I do, you can find things you didn't the first time

What were some of your favorite books as a child?

Define child please ... anyway Mafalda comic strips!! I learnt to read because of them!!... another one... uhmmm The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg... yeah... I've been into vampires for a looong time

Do you usually pick books from the kids, teen, young adult, or adult books? How old are you, if you don't mind?

I pick books as long as they can attract my attention, from any section, and no, I do not mind, I'm 22

Do you buy books much or mostly just borrow?

I tend to buy them... yet I have borrowed many books as well

Have you read any books after seeing them in movie form? Which did you enjoy more?

Yup... starting with The lord of the rings... I had no idea of its existence before the movie (shame on me). Harry Potter (I knew it existed because of my cousin but started reading them after the movie)... anyway, I prefer the books

What about reading the book before there was a movie? How did you feel about the movie? Did you even bother seeing it?

Dan Brown's DaVinci Code, and Angels and Demons, like the movies but prefer the books
Uhmmm I read The Chronicles of Narnia before seeing the movies... but unfortunately not before reading the Lord of the Rings... and I was like... "what? is that all??" so... I think this is the only case where I prefer the movie...

Do you read any other forms of literature aside from novels? Such as graphic novels, comics, (fan fiction???) etc.?

Uhmmm... fan fiction, manga, science articles...

What is a book you want to read, but haven't yet? What intrigues you about it?

uhmmm Lasher and Taltos by Anne Rice... I've read the Witching Hour and want to read the next parts... but haven't find them

If you could rewrite the end of one book (or any other part, I suppose), which would you choose? If you were satisfied with every book you read's end, yay.

Maybe I'm not satisfied with every book, but I'm not sure I'd change them...

If you can think of one, name a book that made you:

- cry: uhmm The Return of the King, gollum's last stand, last time I read it

- laugh: fragments from The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor...

- think, in a deeper sense than the obvious: do Physics Volume 1 and 2 by Resnick Halliday and Krane count?? no??
Ok... then I'll say The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

- feel pure happiness: good question... I can't recall one in particular...

- become so addicted you put off everything in order to finish it: Harry Potter, The Looking Glass Wars, Interview with the Vampire...

- die of boredom: Etica para Amador by Fernando Savater... it was the only time I hated my Ethics teacher in high school

- learn something new: All of them, even if it was only a word I didn't new

- squirm with squickiness: non so far... I think

- squirm with glee: Alexandros by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, but maybe it was because I was reading a story about my hero

- very embarrassed to be reading it: I can't remember one

- angry: uhmmm no... I can't remember one either




Book Meme!

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (yay!)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (yay!)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (just parts here and there... well at least the whole book of Genesis)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (all of them?? I haven't even heard all of them named...)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (yay!)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (yay!)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (yay!)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia (yay!)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (yay! uhmmm this is part of Chronicles of Narnia... but whatever)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (yay!)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (yay!)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (yay!)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (yay!)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (yay! this one made me cry )
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (yay!)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (I saw the movie... does it count?? no?? OK )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (yay!)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (yay!)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( I'm stuck in the middle... I'll eventually finish it)



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