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1. Book MEME: Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Eh, don't really have one. I know, you'd think I would, considering I've probably read more romance novels, and a broad range no less, in the last year than most people read in their life-times. But I can't remember 95% of them. Again, the most memorable book would be a better pick?
Romance novels pretty much can be broken down into three types...angsty moralistic literary novels that end tragically, bantering light literary romance novels, and non-literary that are either angsty or humorous, sometimes they are both.
My favorites? Were unfortunately written either long before I was born or when I was a little kid. I have yet to read a memorable romance novel that was written after 1980.
I'm sure it's out there - I just have yet to stumble up on it. The better ones or rather my favorites tend to be romances that are in novels that are not romance novels or are genre blends - empathsis on sci-fi/fantasy not romance. For example? I love the romance in The Ship Who Sang books or Restoree by Anne McCaffrey, but those aren't really romance novels. Or in the Lymond novels. Or in the Vicky Bliss Mysteries. Or in Cordelia's Honor. Or all those Mary Stewart and Helen McInnis novels.
So romance romance novels?
1. The Wildest Heart by Rosemary Rodgers...it's not really a romance, it's a blend, also a mystery and a western. Rodgers liked to write Westerns. And less of a bodice ripper than most of Rodgers novels.
2. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart - it's about two telepaths and is a gothic mystery. They are hunting an mozaic cat and the heroine isn't sure if the guy who she shares a telepathic link with is her soul-mate or a killer.
3. The Snow Queen - a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale - about Gerta who hunts for her love in the artic realm of the Snow Queen. It's really the original Tam Lin tale and my favorite version.
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - I actually prefer this to Emma, which is my other favorite Jane Austen. It's hilarious in places and has great banter.
5. Moonstruck Madness by Laurie McBain - it's about a highwaywoman who falls in with a Duke, loses her memory, they fall in love, she wakes up...
See they all predate the 1980s.
Curious...why did they ask for favorite romance novel and not sci-fi, mystery or fantasy? Not that I could have answered those either. I'd have five for each. Although better than the above. Actually maybe I'll do them anyhow. But still, why romance? Who came up with this thing? A romance writer or a romance enthusiast?
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people have read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time
2.TV MEME: Day 23 - Most annoying character
You know that character who makes you want to flip channels whenever they come on the show? And everyone has got one. And mileage it varies dramatically on this point, because one person's annoying character is another's favorite - which can be aggravating. Particularly when the most annoying character is the tv show writer's favorite and they devote time to that character...making the character all the more annoying.
For me? Oh easy. Andrew on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I could not stand that character. Grated on my ever living nerve. It's why I hated the episode Storyteller and found it unwatchable. Although oddly, he wasn't annoying in Angel. I actually found him ironically funny in Girl in Question and Damage...which is decidedly odd. So it may not be the actor, it's just how that character was written in Buffy.
But I won't go past that...since I know quite a few folks on my flist appear to adore him, I really do not understand why. But hey I like characters and things that people on my flist can't stand. It is what it is.
Heck I have a co-worker and former boss who has volunteered to go out of her way to drive me to training next week - and she loves George W Bush and is a diehard ultra conservative. While evil boss who stabbed me in the back at evil library reference company...was a diehard liberal and shared my liberal views. I've learned in life such things really don't matter.
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.
As an aside? Why is it I can't change my lj icon from the default icon? I choose one and it always goes to the default. Been having troubles with gadgets this week. TV went wonky on me last week. It's March, things always go wonky the first two weeks of March, then even out and become nice sometime after March 10th. I don't know why. It just is. Ides of March and all that. March wonky month. Can't decide whether to be Spring or Winter.
Eh, don't really have one. I know, you'd think I would, considering I've probably read more romance novels, and a broad range no less, in the last year than most people read in their life-times. But I can't remember 95% of them. Again, the most memorable book would be a better pick?
Romance novels pretty much can be broken down into three types...angsty moralistic literary novels that end tragically, bantering light literary romance novels, and non-literary that are either angsty or humorous, sometimes they are both.
My favorites? Were unfortunately written either long before I was born or when I was a little kid. I have yet to read a memorable romance novel that was written after 1980.
I'm sure it's out there - I just have yet to stumble up on it. The better ones or rather my favorites tend to be romances that are in novels that are not romance novels or are genre blends - empathsis on sci-fi/fantasy not romance. For example? I love the romance in The Ship Who Sang books or Restoree by Anne McCaffrey, but those aren't really romance novels. Or in the Lymond novels. Or in the Vicky Bliss Mysteries. Or in Cordelia's Honor. Or all those Mary Stewart and Helen McInnis novels.
So romance romance novels?
1. The Wildest Heart by Rosemary Rodgers...it's not really a romance, it's a blend, also a mystery and a western. Rodgers liked to write Westerns. And less of a bodice ripper than most of Rodgers novels.
2. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart - it's about two telepaths and is a gothic mystery. They are hunting an mozaic cat and the heroine isn't sure if the guy who she shares a telepathic link with is her soul-mate or a killer.
3. The Snow Queen - a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale - about Gerta who hunts for her love in the artic realm of the Snow Queen. It's really the original Tam Lin tale and my favorite version.
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - I actually prefer this to Emma, which is my other favorite Jane Austen. It's hilarious in places and has great banter.
5. Moonstruck Madness by Laurie McBain - it's about a highwaywoman who falls in with a Duke, loses her memory, they fall in love, she wakes up...
See they all predate the 1980s.
Curious...why did they ask for favorite romance novel and not sci-fi, mystery or fantasy? Not that I could have answered those either. I'd have five for each. Although better than the above. Actually maybe I'll do them anyhow. But still, why romance? Who came up with this thing? A romance writer or a romance enthusiast?
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people have read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time
2.TV MEME: Day 23 - Most annoying character
You know that character who makes you want to flip channels whenever they come on the show? And everyone has got one. And mileage it varies dramatically on this point, because one person's annoying character is another's favorite - which can be aggravating. Particularly when the most annoying character is the tv show writer's favorite and they devote time to that character...making the character all the more annoying.
For me? Oh easy. Andrew on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I could not stand that character. Grated on my ever living nerve. It's why I hated the episode Storyteller and found it unwatchable. Although oddly, he wasn't annoying in Angel. I actually found him ironically funny in Girl in Question and Damage...which is decidedly odd. So it may not be the actor, it's just how that character was written in Buffy.
But I won't go past that...since I know quite a few folks on my flist appear to adore him, I really do not understand why. But hey I like characters and things that people on my flist can't stand. It is what it is.
Heck I have a co-worker and former boss who has volunteered to go out of her way to drive me to training next week - and she loves George W Bush and is a diehard ultra conservative. While evil boss who stabbed me in the back at evil library reference company...was a diehard liberal and shared my liberal views. I've learned in life such things really don't matter.
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.
As an aside? Why is it I can't change my lj icon from the default icon? I choose one and it always goes to the default. Been having troubles with gadgets this week. TV went wonky on me last week. It's March, things always go wonky the first two weeks of March, then even out and become nice sometime after March 10th. I don't know why. It just is. Ides of March and all that. March wonky month. Can't decide whether to be Spring or Winter.