Interview meme!
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labellementeuseI'm about a month behind for this, or something. Never mind.
aim_toothpaste and I are thinking of forming a club of people against disgustingly short skirts :) Would you like to join?
Bonus answer: Yes! Love to!!
1. Who are your favourite authors of young adult fiction? (this is a sneaky way of me asking you to recommend me some new authors)
This is a really hard question, because fiction I read almost exclusively YA and it often has some similar or related themes so, um. Well. New Zealand: Fleur Beale, especially Further Back than Zero and I am Not Esther (Although, honestly, if you haven't already read Esther you may be dead to me.) William Taylor, especially The Blue Lawn and Beth and Bruno and Possum Perkins; Ken Catran, especially Neo's War and all the Deepwater books, although I don't really like his newer stuff; Maragret Mahy, of course. And Ticket to the Sky Dance, if you haven't already read it, by Joy Cowley; and Tessa Duder, who you haven undoubtedly already read but never mind, right? Plain fiction: (I nearly said "straight" but, er, that may be a problem. >.>) Brent Hartinger, this book by John Howe called The Misfits which I totally adore, everything by Sharon Creech, Katharine Paterson, Lois Lowry, SE Hinton... Prose/poetry: Sonya Sones! I really like One of those terrible books where the mother dies and what my mother doesn't know. Also, David Levithan The Realm of Possibility. Short Story collections: Crossings ed. Tessa Duder and Agnes Nieu... okay, I can't spell her last name... Am I Blue? Coming out from the Silence, possibly the best collection ever of stories for and about gay teenagers that I can also envision appealing to straight people. SF&F: Diane Duane, of course, and, hmm, Garth Nix as of late who you already know so... *scratches head* I'm not sure I can think of ones that you won't know. Madeleine L'Engle, Philip Pullman's non-Dark Materials books, um, um, okay, I'll stop now because I don't think I'm getting there, and I've been writing for twenty minutes. But if you really need recs, go to the YA section in Unity Books, because i can pretty much guarantee you'll find something. Then you can go across to the library and check it out. :P
2. What do you hope to get out of your degree - where do you hope to work? (sorry, I know EVERYONE asks students this, but I'm genuinely interested)
Well... I don't really know! BA/BSC in Linguistics, Maths and Philosophy really isn't a degree that's ultimately going to give me a specific career direction in the way that an LLB or a BCom would, or even a BA in PolSci, or whatever.. On the other hand, I don't think it's totally necessary that a degree always gives you a specific career direction; University in particular I think should be less about job training than about learning, or something like that. Statistically I'm likely to change my career upwards of four times in my life; my mother, who has a BA in English Literature, I think, has been an actress, an usher, a teacher, a policy analyst, a secretary, a mother, an author and editor of a children's astronomy magazine, an astronomer, and right now she's a science writer. She's totally without formal science qualifications, I may add. So... I don't really know. Ideally I'd quite like to write, as it happens; I may do some journalism papers later on, or something, an I am definitely doing some creative writing papers next year. But I don't want to just do one thing, I do know that; I don't want to be a business person; I'd quite like to "work with people", that bizarre and ridiculous phrase; I probably want to work for something, as well, which is why I guess a career in Mathematics specifically isn't something that appeals to me a lot. But who knows, I may change majors or anything; probably the only thing that almost certainly isn't going to change is the BA/BSC thing, and even then I might shift the SC to an LLB. :P
3. Are you still taking viola lessons? How's that all going anyway?
Not right now, unfortunately, but I am taking violin lessons and hunting around for a viola tutor as well as an actual viola. I'm playing the violin in a Hall thing later on, and the viola in a uni chamber group, and I want to audition to play the violin for The Fiend (didn't get cast for that, BTW) and the viola for the Christchurch Youth Orchestra. :)
4. If you had to go out for dinner (um, not like at gunpoint or anything) and money was no object where would you go?
Oh my. Um. Probably I'd start of at, hrm, Cafe Bastille in Wellington- it's down the road from the Embassy, down one of the sidestreets of Cambridge Terrace- and then have dessert at Strawberry Fare, where I haven't been for a while, but which may be the greatest dessert restaurant in the world (even Orson Scott Card thinks so, and he's not actually from New Zealand. ;)). If money was really no object, I'd fly to France and have tea with Clara. But I'd still come back to Strawberry Fare for dessert. >:D
5. How do you propose we stop 18 year old girls from wearing ridiculously short skirts in the middle of winter?
MAKE THEM ILLEGAL. :D
If you want to be itnerviewed, say so in the comments, then post the answers in your own journal & do the same. :D
aim_toothpaste and I are thinking of forming a club of people against disgustingly short skirts :) Would you like to join?
Bonus answer: Yes! Love to!!
1. Who are your favourite authors of young adult fiction? (this is a sneaky way of me asking you to recommend me some new authors)
This is a really hard question, because fiction I read almost exclusively YA and it often has some similar or related themes so, um. Well. New Zealand: Fleur Beale, especially Further Back than Zero and I am Not Esther (Although, honestly, if you haven't already read Esther you may be dead to me.) William Taylor, especially The Blue Lawn and Beth and Bruno and Possum Perkins; Ken Catran, especially Neo's War and all the Deepwater books, although I don't really like his newer stuff; Maragret Mahy, of course. And Ticket to the Sky Dance, if you haven't already read it, by Joy Cowley; and Tessa Duder, who you haven undoubtedly already read but never mind, right? Plain fiction: (I nearly said "straight" but, er, that may be a problem. >.>) Brent Hartinger, this book by John Howe called The Misfits which I totally adore, everything by Sharon Creech, Katharine Paterson, Lois Lowry, SE Hinton... Prose/poetry: Sonya Sones! I really like One of those terrible books where the mother dies and what my mother doesn't know. Also, David Levithan The Realm of Possibility. Short Story collections: Crossings ed. Tessa Duder and Agnes Nieu... okay, I can't spell her last name... Am I Blue? Coming out from the Silence, possibly the best collection ever of stories for and about gay teenagers that I can also envision appealing to straight people. SF&F: Diane Duane, of course, and, hmm, Garth Nix as of late who you already know so... *scratches head* I'm not sure I can think of ones that you won't know. Madeleine L'Engle, Philip Pullman's non-Dark Materials books, um, um, okay, I'll stop now because I don't think I'm getting there, and I've been writing for twenty minutes. But if you really need recs, go to the YA section in Unity Books, because i can pretty much guarantee you'll find something. Then you can go across to the library and check it out. :P
2. What do you hope to get out of your degree - where do you hope to work? (sorry, I know EVERYONE asks students this, but I'm genuinely interested)
Well... I don't really know! BA/BSC in Linguistics, Maths and Philosophy really isn't a degree that's ultimately going to give me a specific career direction in the way that an LLB or a BCom would, or even a BA in PolSci, or whatever.. On the other hand, I don't think it's totally necessary that a degree always gives you a specific career direction; University in particular I think should be less about job training than about learning, or something like that. Statistically I'm likely to change my career upwards of four times in my life; my mother, who has a BA in English Literature, I think, has been an actress, an usher, a teacher, a policy analyst, a secretary, a mother, an author and editor of a children's astronomy magazine, an astronomer, and right now she's a science writer. She's totally without formal science qualifications, I may add. So... I don't really know. Ideally I'd quite like to write, as it happens; I may do some journalism papers later on, or something, an I am definitely doing some creative writing papers next year. But I don't want to just do one thing, I do know that; I don't want to be a business person; I'd quite like to "work with people", that bizarre and ridiculous phrase; I probably want to work for something, as well, which is why I guess a career in Mathematics specifically isn't something that appeals to me a lot. But who knows, I may change majors or anything; probably the only thing that almost certainly isn't going to change is the BA/BSC thing, and even then I might shift the SC to an LLB. :P
3. Are you still taking viola lessons? How's that all going anyway?
Not right now, unfortunately, but I am taking violin lessons and hunting around for a viola tutor as well as an actual viola. I'm playing the violin in a Hall thing later on, and the viola in a uni chamber group, and I want to audition to play the violin for The Fiend (didn't get cast for that, BTW) and the viola for the Christchurch Youth Orchestra. :)
4. If you had to go out for dinner (um, not like at gunpoint or anything) and money was no object where would you go?
Oh my. Um. Probably I'd start of at, hrm, Cafe Bastille in Wellington- it's down the road from the Embassy, down one of the sidestreets of Cambridge Terrace- and then have dessert at Strawberry Fare, where I haven't been for a while, but which may be the greatest dessert restaurant in the world (even Orson Scott Card thinks so, and he's not actually from New Zealand. ;)). If money was really no object, I'd fly to France and have tea with Clara. But I'd still come back to Strawberry Fare for dessert. >:D
5. How do you propose we stop 18 year old girls from wearing ridiculously short skirts in the middle of winter?
MAKE THEM ILLEGAL. :D
If you want to be itnerviewed, say so in the comments, then post the answers in your own journal & do the same. :D
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Date: 2005-05-04 12:40 am (UTC)incomplete list of Gaelyn Gordon. woefully incomplete. (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=GaelynGordon) I don't think it mentioned tripswitch or that twins one she wrote (I think it was her...)
Ged Maybury. StarTroopers was very cool. (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=GedMaybury)
Jack Lasenby, maybe too young (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=JackLasenby)
Sherryl Jordon, very good. (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=SherrylJordan)
Apparantly, VM Jones is good. (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=VMJones)
David Hill is good. See Ya Simon WILL make you cry. (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=DavidHill)
Love Maurice Gee's Fantasy. (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=mauricegee)
Ken catran, yay. (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=KenCatran)
I never actually read Alex but saw parts of the movie... Tessa Duder (http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author%5Fid=TessaDuder)
And I can't find the name of the book or author, but there was this story about a young woman who travelled to the future and swapped places with her granddaughter who resembled herself. Umm.. Better than it sounds, really...
I do know most of those, so extra commentary
Date: 2005-05-04 05:07 am (UTC)Haven't read Maybury, take the rec. :D
No-one's too young for Jack Lasenby. Or do you men his stuff is too young? Well, maybe Uncle Trev, but Dead Man's Head et cet and The Conjuror and Because we were the travellers et seq... yeah, I'm quite fond of his canon, too. :) Shouldhave had him under sci fi. Sometimes I think we forget what a real wealth of NZ science fiction/fantasy and ya/children's books we have...
SHERRYL JORDAN HOW COULD I FORGET LOVE LOVE LOVE *recs The Raging Quiet and Rocco and The Juniper Game like mad*
I read and really liked Juggling with mandarins by VM, but never really hit it off with her fantasy. It may be time to try again.
David Hill... sometimes I think he's very, very good, See Ya, Simon being one of those sometimes. Other times I think he repeats himself a lot, a bit predictable- especially his more recent stuff. I don't know. He's nice, though, he writes for Galaxy every issue and he can't be getting much for that... :)
More *facepalm* about Maurice Gee's fantasy, but seriously, is there a young New Zealander anywhere who hasn't read, or at least heard on the radio, The Halfmen of O??? :) Lloyd Scott's greatest ever. Actually, even now when I hear Lloyd Scott on the radio I get all these positive feelings because I either thinkl "Oh! It's the Holiday Programme! They're reading The Halfmen of O!" Or "Oh! It's Ears! They're reading The Priests of Ferris!" So. You know. :P
And Ken Catran and Tessa Duder were both there, thanks ever so! *indignant* And I didn't much see the point of mentioning Alex by name because everyone's read Alex, girls, anyway. The Tiggie books are also good, and I have a special place in my heart for Mercury Beach, no idea why.