01:44 - 2005-03-16
Friday Five to Prevent Brain Death on a Tuesday
1. What is the first book you remember reading?
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. I used to be able to recite it from memory and I still love it to death. It's immensely soothing and when I'm a senior reading bedtime stories to frosh, that's my pick.
2. What is your favorite book?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I have to pick one?! There's too many to count! I think the answer would be the Elenium/Tamuli series, which I adore.
3. Who is your favorite author?
David Eddings, with JK Rowling, Gerald Morris, Orson Scott Card and erm ... Douglas Adams over Frost or any number of fantastic writers I could name, but not by a large margin.
4. Pick up the nearest book (magazine or any available printed material will do). Turn to page 24 (or the closest to it). Go to the 7th line. What is it?
The closest book to me is a dictionary, wherein, on the twenty-fourth line on the seventh page reads: feeling that one is unloved. The full definition reads as follows: aphilophrenia n. a feeling that one is unloved or unwanted.
The nearest actual reading material is The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies and the line is as follows: with gloomy calm, but McVarish whooped and frisked about until ... (to finish it up) I feared he might have an orgasm, right there amid the dust. Three men are looking at pornography in the context of art together. This is in some way related to Arthurian legend; do not ask me how, for I do not know.
5. If you could be any character in literature, who would you be?
Damn. This one is interesting. I'm inclined to say Polgara, because she kicks ass. I wouldn't mind playing someone who is regularly and happily slashed, though.
