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1-15 of the Book Meme
1: What book did you last finish? When was that?
A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Torres - it was last week or thereabouts. It was an audio book. Excellent character sketch, writing comforting and lovely. Worked very well as an audio book. About a Count under house arrest in a Moscow Hotel from 1930s to roughly 1950s.
Comic/graphic novel - finished reading a few X-men books, which have gotten rather interesting of late.
Romance novel - which I can't remember the name of, or what it was about. They kind of blend together, to be honest.
*Note I'm counting audio books.
2: What are you currently reading?
Rules of Civility by Amor Torres - it's about a bunch of legal secretaries in their 20s, tooling about NYC in the 1930s or thereabouts.
Dear Enemy by Kristin Cahill (sp?) - I think that's the author's name, I tend to forget their names. And I'm too lazy to look it up at the moment. It's a contemporary romance about a chef and a television star. They knew each other as kids, and he teased her ruthlessly, and was a bit mean to her as a kid, while dating her sister. Yet, apparently everything wasn't as it seemed. The writing is loose and frothy, but I like the twist on the enemies to friends to lovers bit, with the sociopathic/narcissitic hustler sister. [I got if for free via Kindle Unlimited.]
3: What book are you planning to read next?
Flirting with Battleground by Jim Butcher (last in the Dresden Files) or
Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices about her time as Secretary of State. Or
something by NJ Jeminsh. I'm moody, I don't tend to know until I get there.
4: What was the last book you added to your TBR?
Reborn Yesterday - Phenomenal Fate Series 1 by Tessa Bailey and the Amor Torres book.
5: Which book did you last re-read?
Comic book - Uncanny X-men, last issue prior to House of X. I re-read it on the toilet - took fifteen minutes. Comics take no time. Part of the appeal.
What else? I don't tend to re-read books to be honest. No, wait. The Illona Andrews's Magic Bites series. I've re-read or listened to those books about five times now.
6: Which book was the last one you really, really loved?
It's been so long since I really really loved a book. I've been in a reading slump for five years now. I think it may have been Illona Andrews Magic Bites series - specifically Magic Shifts, or the middle two books in the series. There's three books in that series, books three, four, and five, that are really good.
7: What was/were the last book/books you bought?
Amor Torres book (although free), Yesterday Reborn (dirt cheap), and Lord Holt Takes a Wife (also dirt cheap), When We Left Cuba -Chanel Cleeton, A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Mass, About a Rogue - Carolyn Linden (all dirt cheap) - and yes, I need to stop buying books from SmartBitches recs, this I know.
8: Paperback or hardcover? Why?
Hardcover lasts. Paperback takes up less room and is easier to cart around on subways, plus cheaper.
9: Children's, YA, NA or Adult? Why?
I'm equal opportunity. Although I prefer Childrens, YA, and Adult. New Adult tends to annoy me - it's usually bratty twenty-somethings angsting over their bad romantic lives and dysfunctional family situations. They tend to be white. And annoying. Fifty pages in? I want to smack them upside the head and neuter their parents.
Children's is usually coming of age, no romance, and adventures or solving a problem of sorts.
Young Adult is kind of the same, but you have a romance.
Adult is more versatile, and I'm in my fifties, so more people my age, and less people my niece's age.
10: Sci-Fi or fantasy? Why?
Both. Although depending on mood, I tend to move towards Sci-Fi. But I like both to be honest. I really love hybrids.
11: Classic or modern? Why?
Modern. Classical writing gives me a headache - too flowery and archaic. It's like trying to read another language. I'm dyslexic - reading is hard enough as it is, I'd prefer not to work even harder to get at a story, if I don't have to. And for some reason - classical is more likely for me to turn into word salad. I can read it, and do enjoy it, but at times it feels like wading through the mental equivalent of quick sand.
12: Political memoirs or comedic memoirs?
Political - I think it's the frustrated poli sci major in me. Also comedy is a hard thing to pull off, I don't always share the comedians sense of humor.
13: Name a book with a really bad movie/tv adaption.
Dune - they've never done Dune well for some reason.Let's see what else? I know there are others...that disappointed me. Also Wizard of Earthsea series was horrible.
14: Name a book where the movie/tv adaption actually was better than the original.
Sense & Sensibility - I found the book unreadable, the movie was excellent.
Gone with the Wind - the book again was unreadable, the adaptation was stellar.
15: What book changed your life?
I don't know. Hard to say? So many. And I'm not sure changed my life is the right phrase? Did they? I don't know.
Also kind of drastic thing - to change one's life?
There are books that pulled me into reading - such as the EB White books that my father read to me as a child, or the Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Then Nancy Drew novels that were among the first I could read, followed swiftly by the Susan Cooper Dark is Rising novels, The Circle of Light, Madelyn L'Engle books, Judy Bloom...
I know the Hobbit and Dune had huge effects on me as an adolescent, while
I remember having my mind blown by Gaberial Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I also quite adored Witches of Worm, and let's see, my introduction in college to comic books and graphic novels.
Books are like magic - you can escape into another world - inside your own mind.
A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Torres - it was last week or thereabouts. It was an audio book. Excellent character sketch, writing comforting and lovely. Worked very well as an audio book. About a Count under house arrest in a Moscow Hotel from 1930s to roughly 1950s.
Comic/graphic novel - finished reading a few X-men books, which have gotten rather interesting of late.
Romance novel - which I can't remember the name of, or what it was about. They kind of blend together, to be honest.
*Note I'm counting audio books.
2: What are you currently reading?
Rules of Civility by Amor Torres - it's about a bunch of legal secretaries in their 20s, tooling about NYC in the 1930s or thereabouts.
Dear Enemy by Kristin Cahill (sp?) - I think that's the author's name, I tend to forget their names. And I'm too lazy to look it up at the moment. It's a contemporary romance about a chef and a television star. They knew each other as kids, and he teased her ruthlessly, and was a bit mean to her as a kid, while dating her sister. Yet, apparently everything wasn't as it seemed. The writing is loose and frothy, but I like the twist on the enemies to friends to lovers bit, with the sociopathic/narcissitic hustler sister. [I got if for free via Kindle Unlimited.]
3: What book are you planning to read next?
Flirting with Battleground by Jim Butcher (last in the Dresden Files) or
Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices about her time as Secretary of State. Or
something by NJ Jeminsh. I'm moody, I don't tend to know until I get there.
4: What was the last book you added to your TBR?
Reborn Yesterday - Phenomenal Fate Series 1 by Tessa Bailey and the Amor Torres book.
5: Which book did you last re-read?
Comic book - Uncanny X-men, last issue prior to House of X. I re-read it on the toilet - took fifteen minutes. Comics take no time. Part of the appeal.
What else? I don't tend to re-read books to be honest. No, wait. The Illona Andrews's Magic Bites series. I've re-read or listened to those books about five times now.
6: Which book was the last one you really, really loved?
It's been so long since I really really loved a book. I've been in a reading slump for five years now. I think it may have been Illona Andrews Magic Bites series - specifically Magic Shifts, or the middle two books in the series. There's three books in that series, books three, four, and five, that are really good.
7: What was/were the last book/books you bought?
Amor Torres book (although free), Yesterday Reborn (dirt cheap), and Lord Holt Takes a Wife (also dirt cheap), When We Left Cuba -Chanel Cleeton, A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Mass, About a Rogue - Carolyn Linden (all dirt cheap) - and yes, I need to stop buying books from SmartBitches recs, this I know.
8: Paperback or hardcover? Why?
Hardcover lasts. Paperback takes up less room and is easier to cart around on subways, plus cheaper.
9: Children's, YA, NA or Adult? Why?
I'm equal opportunity. Although I prefer Childrens, YA, and Adult. New Adult tends to annoy me - it's usually bratty twenty-somethings angsting over their bad romantic lives and dysfunctional family situations. They tend to be white. And annoying. Fifty pages in? I want to smack them upside the head and neuter their parents.
Children's is usually coming of age, no romance, and adventures or solving a problem of sorts.
Young Adult is kind of the same, but you have a romance.
Adult is more versatile, and I'm in my fifties, so more people my age, and less people my niece's age.
10: Sci-Fi or fantasy? Why?
Both. Although depending on mood, I tend to move towards Sci-Fi. But I like both to be honest. I really love hybrids.
11: Classic or modern? Why?
Modern. Classical writing gives me a headache - too flowery and archaic. It's like trying to read another language. I'm dyslexic - reading is hard enough as it is, I'd prefer not to work even harder to get at a story, if I don't have to. And for some reason - classical is more likely for me to turn into word salad. I can read it, and do enjoy it, but at times it feels like wading through the mental equivalent of quick sand.
12: Political memoirs or comedic memoirs?
Political - I think it's the frustrated poli sci major in me. Also comedy is a hard thing to pull off, I don't always share the comedians sense of humor.
13: Name a book with a really bad movie/tv adaption.
Dune - they've never done Dune well for some reason.Let's see what else? I know there are others...that disappointed me. Also Wizard of Earthsea series was horrible.
14: Name a book where the movie/tv adaption actually was better than the original.
Sense & Sensibility - I found the book unreadable, the movie was excellent.
Gone with the Wind - the book again was unreadable, the adaptation was stellar.
15: What book changed your life?
I don't know. Hard to say? So many. And I'm not sure changed my life is the right phrase? Did they? I don't know.
Also kind of drastic thing - to change one's life?
There are books that pulled me into reading - such as the EB White books that my father read to me as a child, or the Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Then Nancy Drew novels that were among the first I could read, followed swiftly by the Susan Cooper Dark is Rising novels, The Circle of Light, Madelyn L'Engle books, Judy Bloom...
I know the Hobbit and Dune had huge effects on me as an adolescent, while
I remember having my mind blown by Gaberial Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I also quite adored Witches of Worm, and let's see, my introduction in college to comic books and graphic novels.
Books are like magic - you can escape into another world - inside your own mind.