Meme. Yeah, I suck.

From manic_subbie

You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?
Do I look dumb if I say I've never read it? *guilty*

In a general sense, the book I'd most like to be is... um, probably either High Wizardry by Diane Duane (it's before all the angst, it's exciting, there are redheads lots of cool characters, and having a good vocabulary helps you do magic. Oh yes) or any of Charles de Lint's Newford ss collections; I think they're simply delightful, I don't know why. Or actually, yes I do; they combine magic, the real pure fairytale stuff, with reality and living in a city in a way that's faithful to both reality and myth.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Uh, of course. ;)

The last book you bought is?
The Onion Girl, by Charles de Lint, yesterday afternoon; before that Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix, a few months ago. I don't really buy books much, although I wish I could do so more. What with this whole Borders thing I expect I will for a bit though.

The last book you finished is?
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint. I finished it this afternoon or this morning, I forget which. Thoroughly recommend it, BTW although I would also maybe suggest reading something like Memory and Dream or Moonlight and Vine first.

What are you currently reading?
The Bone People by Keri Hulme and The Art of Standing Upright by Glenn Culquhoun. Really recommend both; Hulme succeeds at the fine art of writing a novel out of traditional format that nevertheless remains readable. Sometimes pushing the boundaries of grammar and format too hard just makes the book illegible rather than brilliant and groundbreaking; The Bone People, on the other hand, is totally succeeding, so far. A New Zealand classic.

Five books you would take to a deserted island?
oh my god you want me to pick five? Holy moly.
1. Imagine that there's a boxed set of the YW series akin to Diane Duane's Box of Wizardry only with all seven books? Yeah, that. If you won't accept that, Wizards at War. ;) You didn't say it had to be a published book, right?
2. Pratchett and Gaiman, Good Omens.
3. Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything because it might keep me going for a while, I've never finished it.
4. My Heart Goes Swimming, an anthology of NZ love poetry. it's basically a seriously adorable little book.
5. omg don't make me choose between The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera and Realm of Possibility by David Levithan. Please, I'm begging you here. :(

I sort of can't believe I haven't got something huge like Tolkien on there. It would probably be useful. And no Charles de Lint, and, and, and, seriously, I couldn't survive anyway, I'd go nuts. Five books?

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
gianp because I really have no idea what he reads or what he would take, and I think that's the kind of thing one should know; tisis because he's new to the flist and therefore I also don't know any of his likely answers; and, hmm, rysade because I would have known once but I don't now and that breaks my heart in an understated sort of way.

Really, though, the flist should ALL DO IT, DAMN YOU. GO, GO, GO.
( cut for disturbing MSn conversation. why does this happen to me? )

And, er, two more memes.
( miriam wants to start a meme. )

And the ten-guys-you'd-shag meme.
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