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The prolific and always creative, NON-linear thinking Scout at Harper-Valley tagged me, so here are my answers to probing tag questions:
(BTW, I'm a book nerd. I always have 6-8 on the go at once - read them according to my mood on any given day. I also tend to think first of most recently read books, so these answers may reflect most recent memories over truth...)
A BOOK THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: (Many, at various stages...): Monoculture of the Mind, Vandan Shiva; If Women Counted, Marilyn Waring; A Separate Peace, John Knowles, Polly of Primrose Hill, by ???; The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion, Tolkien; Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood; Joy of Cooking; I Have Lived Here Since the World Began, Arthur J. Ray; Testament, Nino Ricci; Everything You Need To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) by ??? - found it in my parents' room once ...
A BOOK I'VE READ MORE THAN ONCE: Surfacing, Margaret Atwood; The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, many books of poetry (esp. Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, e.e.cummings, Margaret Atood, Shakespears sonnets - never got much into his plays), Away, Jane Urquhart; several by Michael Ondaatji.
A BOOK I WOULD TAKE TO A DESERT ISLAND: The one I'm trying to finish writing - so, I guess I'd take pens and paper.
A BOOK THAT MADE ME LAUGH: Joshua Then and Now, and Barney's Version, Mordechai Richler; The Moor's Last Sigh, Salmon Rushdie; Larry's Party, Carol Shields, A Complicate Kindness, Miriam Toews.
A BOOK THAT MADE ME CRY: Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion; English Patient, Running in the Family, In the Skin of Lion, Michael Ondaatji.
A BOOK I WISH HAD BEEN WRITTEN: The one I'm working on!
A BOOK I WISH HAD NEVER BEEN WRITTEN:
BOOKS I AM CURRENTLY READING: War & Peace, Tolstoy (inspired by a recent article in The Walrus- I'm one third of the way through and I skip over the battle scenes); Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden; Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan; Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen; Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Appish; Istanbul, Orhan Pamul; Collapse of Globalism, J.R. Saul; Dropped Threads 3 (forget the editor- it's in my car) (is it Doris Anderson?)
BOOKS I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO READ: Can't seem to finish Anna Karenina. (War & Peace seems less sappy - more to do with what life is all about - questioning that - than just romantic love.)
WHAT TURNED ME ON TO FICTION: No idea.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Someone once berated me for 'wasting my money' on hardcovers rather than waiting for the paperbacks, but I love that feeling of being part of something - waves of thought as they cross the country/planet AT THAT TIME. As a result, only one room in our house has no books in it: the cold storage room, which only has pickles and jam.
FIVE I'LL PASS THIS POLL ONTO: ummm... do I know 5 other bloggers? (other than Scout...?) Will have to give this last one some thought...:)
(BTW, I'm a book nerd. I always have 6-8 on the go at once - read them according to my mood on any given day. I also tend to think first of most recently read books, so these answers may reflect most recent memories over truth...)
A BOOK THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: (Many, at various stages...): Monoculture of the Mind, Vandan Shiva; If Women Counted, Marilyn Waring; A Separate Peace, John Knowles, Polly of Primrose Hill, by ???; The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion, Tolkien; Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood; Joy of Cooking; I Have Lived Here Since the World Began, Arthur J. Ray; Testament, Nino Ricci; Everything You Need To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) by ??? - found it in my parents' room once ...
A BOOK I'VE READ MORE THAN ONCE: Surfacing, Margaret Atwood; The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, many books of poetry (esp. Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, e.e.cummings, Margaret Atood, Shakespears sonnets - never got much into his plays), Away, Jane Urquhart; several by Michael Ondaatji.
A BOOK I WOULD TAKE TO A DESERT ISLAND: The one I'm trying to finish writing - so, I guess I'd take pens and paper.
A BOOK THAT MADE ME LAUGH: Joshua Then and Now, and Barney's Version, Mordechai Richler; The Moor's Last Sigh, Salmon Rushdie; Larry's Party, Carol Shields, A Complicate Kindness, Miriam Toews.
A BOOK THAT MADE ME CRY: Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion; English Patient, Running in the Family, In the Skin of Lion, Michael Ondaatji.
A BOOK I WISH HAD BEEN WRITTEN: The one I'm working on!
A BOOK I WISH HAD NEVER BEEN WRITTEN:
BOOKS I AM CURRENTLY READING: War & Peace, Tolstoy (inspired by a recent article in The Walrus- I'm one third of the way through and I skip over the battle scenes); Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden; Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan; Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen; Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Appish; Istanbul, Orhan Pamul; Collapse of Globalism, J.R. Saul; Dropped Threads 3 (forget the editor- it's in my car) (is it Doris Anderson?)
BOOKS I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO READ: Can't seem to finish Anna Karenina. (War & Peace seems less sappy - more to do with what life is all about - questioning that - than just romantic love.)
WHAT TURNED ME ON TO FICTION: No idea.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Someone once berated me for 'wasting my money' on hardcovers rather than waiting for the paperbacks, but I love that feeling of being part of something - waves of thought as they cross the country/planet AT THAT TIME. As a result, only one room in our house has no books in it: the cold storage room, which only has pickles and jam.
FIVE I'LL PASS THIS POLL ONTO: ummm... do I know 5 other bloggers? (other than Scout...?) Will have to give this last one some thought...:)
posted by cheezwhiz at 4:05 PM
5 Comments:
OOps, that should have read "non-linear thinker", as in Scout from Harper-Valley blog. A linear thinker Scout is NOT!
You just gave me hell of a homework.I have not read most of the books you have read.Something wrong with me?May be.I will shop for them,paperbacks.
Loved your posts.
oh! ok, when you said 'linear thinker' i thought, 'oh, am i a linear thinker, hmm, i guess i had the definition of linear wrong'. then went on reading....hah!
geeze, a lot of authors/titles i've never heard of.
and skipping the battle scense....shame on you! (joking, joking).
you know cheez, you could go in and do a quick, easy edit and change 'linear' to 'non-linear' , or retarded or whatever :)
Jeff: I haven't read most of yours either. Especially that last one you mentioned...will have to look for it, maybe wear a disguise when I check out...
Scout: Done, my friend.
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