Flight into Fantasy

I just finished writing a major paper. I’m at the stage of post-paper production where I’m glad it’s over but feel like the professor would probably much rather read a bunch of monkeys typing random crap than the paper I wrote. This will pass once the paper is graded.

Anyway, I totally wrote this post up this morning and then got distracted with homework, and since I don’t have anything else to say at the moment what with brain fryage, have it now anyway.

First of all, the obligatory Amazon Rank. Because protecting teh childrens from teh gays is seriously not cool, Amazon.

Secondly, I thought I would steal this meme from Ciaralira. She stole it from the whole rest of the world, so I’m sure she won’t care that I snitched it, too.

Hello, my name is Shannon and I’m a bookaholic.

1. What author do you own the most books by?
At this point, I have no idea. I do seem to have copies of everything by Jean Johnson and Nalini Singh.
2. What book do you own the most copies of?

I’m not that much of a book nerd. I don’t think I have multiple copies of anything.
3. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?

Just one? OK fine. I’ll have to go with my longest-lasting fictional character crush to date, Miles Vorkosigan.

4. What book have you read more than any other?

A Wrinkle in Time, which I’ve read at least five times.

5. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. It truly is a lovely book, which I recently reread, but at ten I was totally awed by it. (I think, incidentally, that I first read A Wrinkle in Time a year later.)

6. What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?

Retreat by Mari Carr. So much ugh and WTF should not be allowed in one book.

7. What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
I think I’m going to have to go with Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry. I want the next book. Like now!

8. If you could tell everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Geek Love by Katharine Dunn. It and A Wrinkle in Time are my favorite books of all time.
9. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
We had to read Nietzche for one of my classes. Ugh.
10. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Neither. Except I do like some of Chekhov’s stories.
11. Shakespeare, Milton or Chaucer?
Shakespeare.
12. Austen or Eliot?
Er… Can I have neither, please?
13. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I haven’t read Jane Austen.
14. What is your favorite novel?

Another plug for Geek Love here.
15. Play?
I really liked “Raisin in the Sun”.
16. Poem?
“I’m Nobody” by Emily Dickenson.
17. Essay?
You know, this survey is either hopelessly pretentious or I’m hopelessly unread. Does the collected works that I’ve read of David Sedaris count for this question?

18. Short Story?
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by charlotte Perkins Gilman.

19. Non Fiction

Can I go ahead and list Beyond Heaving Bosoms by the Smart Bitches? I realize it doesn’t actually count since I haven’t read it yet, but this survey is totally making me feel dumb, so I’m just going to embrace that.

20. Graphic Novel?
*Sigh* If I weren’t blind, I would totally read the Fables graphic novels. But since I am…

21. Science Fiction?
Hmm. Of all time? I have no idea. Mowst recently I’ve loved Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold and Old Man’s War by John Scalzi.
22. Who is your favorite writer?
This changes on a daily basis. But I’ll still go with Lois McMaster Bujold.
23. Who is the most over rated writer alive today?
Stephenie Meyer.
24. What are you reading right now?
Going to finish Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner, and then I have to decide what book I’m reading for the TBR challenge. I’m waffling between three that will fit the theme– Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews, Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, and The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe,.
25. Best Memoir?
I don’t think I’ve ever read a memoir in my life. This is not likely to change.
26. Best History?
Again with the not well read.
27. Best mystery or Noir?
Oh, easily, the Burke series by Andrew Vachss.