Book Meme and Title Meme
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browngirlBecause I drank three glasses of iced tea with dinner and I'm slightly hyper, it's meme night! Wheee!
Meme the first from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aesc and petronelle.
1) Total number of books owned?
How do they expect anyone who fills out this meme to answer this numerically? I have two large bookcases, a small one, and several boxes of books in my room. I wouldn't dare try to count them; I'd end up rereading them and not be seen for days.
2) The last book I bought?
Technically, Lois McMaster Bujold's Borders of Infinity, as a gift for a friend. For myself, The Batman Handbook, because I wanted it for two reasons: as research material for my new fandom that could tell me how my characters might do certain things, and because I love books that treat the fictional as real.
3) The last book I read?
As Petra said, without pictures? DeSade's Philosophy in the Bedroom, actually. What a fascinating wicked intelligent man.
With pictures? Robin: Flying Solo. Yay Tim!
And, nonfiction: Early American Herb Recipies, because cooking is a passion of mine and because I'm researching British cooking of a certain time period because I'm writing about hobbits.
4) 5 books that mean a lot to me?
The Lord of the Rings A big shock, I know. *laugh at myself* Much children's literature is fantastical, but this book in three (really six) parts introduced me to fantasy as a genre.
Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies I love this book. So much, for so many different reasons. It does the sort of thing I think science should be used for, it intelligently answers questions many people ask, and it says unequivocally and truly that we're all humans here, all of us as good as any others. When I was a teenager and I kept running into the question, variously phrased but always boiling down to, "if Black people aren't inferior to White people, how come you were the slaves?" this is the book I needed to answer and refute it.
Minoans and Myceneans: Flavors of their Time You've never heard of this book, most likely. It's the exhibition catalogue for an exhibition I read about online, and a proof of human generosity (some very nice people sent it to me from the National Museum in Athens, for free, because I asked) and about two of my favorite things, the Minoans and cooking.
The Last of the Wine This is not actually my favorite Mary Renault book, thoiugh I love it dearly (That honor is shared by The King Must Die and The Mask of Apollo, depending.) It was my first Mary Renault book, and like all firsts has a special place in my heart.
Understanding Comics I love it when art forms expand into even a little of their potential; I love it more when people illumine some of the vast lovely spaces of that potential.
5) 5 folks I'd like to see answer this meme (assuming they haven't already)?
Hmmmm.
abundantlyqueer; baranduin; _marcelo; mirabile_dictu; strangerian. Which of course doesn't mean that if I don't name you there I don't want to see your take on this meme. :)
And then there's the Titles meme, created bybrown_betty.
Five LOTR titles:
"Beauty Mark". When I was considering Elanor Gamgee, I thought about her famous beauty and how she might have thought about it. How it might have marked her. Not very clever, I know.
"Estella's Opinion". That's what the story is about, Estella's opinion of Men, of the Troubles, of Merry, and how all of those change and change each other.
"Namesake" Well, Faramir is Faramir's namesake. And so.
"To Hold a Star" Tolkien gave me a love of light imagery, star imagery, etc, that came full circle in a pretty bit of smut that not many people read but I'm personally rather fond of.
"A Fair and Lordly Lad" Because he was, and he is. For different antecedents of 'he'.
"While We Raise Our Hearts in Love" What else could I possibly title a Yuletide threesome?
"Last Look" Because it's what Frodo has consciously set out to have and Merry is unknowingly having. Well, if by look I mean tup.
OK, that's seven. Onwards:
LOTRPS Titles:
I'm actually pretty bad about titling these, and I don't want to do drabbles for this meme. So here are two, I guess.
"A Friendly Visit": because they were friends in the lovers sense, and still are friends in the friends sense, and so I wanted to underscore the enormity of what happened between them.
"The Goddess-Kissed" Because I'm a little girl, and when I make something nice I want to show it off.
DC Comicsverse Titles:
"Paris' Choice, or, Clash of the Superpowers" Because it was such a silly little bit I wanted the grandest possible title for it.
"Till Human Voices Wake Us" Begun for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dc_flashfiction's Poetry challenge, even if completed for the Friendship challenge. I know enough poetry to have picked something more obscure, but the phrase was perfect for what I was trying to do.
"Rhetorical Questions" Because one should never ask a question one doesn't want the answer to.
"In Time of Silver Rain" Inspired by/influenced bythete1, on whom I have the most massive intellectual/fannish crush, I used a snip of poetry for a title.
"Not In Our Stars" Who better than Shakespeare to express all the DOOM (doom doom doom doom doom ) inherent in the situation?
Meme the first from
aesc and petronelle.1) Total number of books owned?
How do they expect anyone who fills out this meme to answer this numerically? I have two large bookcases, a small one, and several boxes of books in my room. I wouldn't dare try to count them; I'd end up rereading them and not be seen for days.
2) The last book I bought?
Technically, Lois McMaster Bujold's Borders of Infinity, as a gift for a friend. For myself, The Batman Handbook, because I wanted it for two reasons: as research material for my new fandom that could tell me how my characters might do certain things, and because I love books that treat the fictional as real.
3) The last book I read?
As Petra said, without pictures? DeSade's Philosophy in the Bedroom, actually. What a fascinating wicked intelligent man.
With pictures? Robin: Flying Solo. Yay Tim!
And, nonfiction: Early American Herb Recipies, because cooking is a passion of mine and because I'm researching British cooking of a certain time period because I'm writing about hobbits.
4) 5 books that mean a lot to me?
The Lord of the Rings A big shock, I know. *laugh at myself* Much children's literature is fantastical, but this book in three (really six) parts introduced me to fantasy as a genre.
Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies I love this book. So much, for so many different reasons. It does the sort of thing I think science should be used for, it intelligently answers questions many people ask, and it says unequivocally and truly that we're all humans here, all of us as good as any others. When I was a teenager and I kept running into the question, variously phrased but always boiling down to, "if Black people aren't inferior to White people, how come you were the slaves?" this is the book I needed to answer and refute it.
Minoans and Myceneans: Flavors of their Time You've never heard of this book, most likely. It's the exhibition catalogue for an exhibition I read about online, and a proof of human generosity (some very nice people sent it to me from the National Museum in Athens, for free, because I asked) and about two of my favorite things, the Minoans and cooking.
The Last of the Wine This is not actually my favorite Mary Renault book, thoiugh I love it dearly (That honor is shared by The King Must Die and The Mask of Apollo, depending.) It was my first Mary Renault book, and like all firsts has a special place in my heart.
Understanding Comics I love it when art forms expand into even a little of their potential; I love it more when people illumine some of the vast lovely spaces of that potential.
5) 5 folks I'd like to see answer this meme (assuming they haven't already)?
Hmmmm.
abundantlyqueer; baranduin; _marcelo; mirabile_dictu; strangerian. Which of course doesn't mean that if I don't name you there I don't want to see your take on this meme. :)And then there's the Titles meme, created by
brown_betty. Five LOTR titles:
"Beauty Mark". When I was considering Elanor Gamgee, I thought about her famous beauty and how she might have thought about it. How it might have marked her. Not very clever, I know.
"Estella's Opinion". That's what the story is about, Estella's opinion of Men, of the Troubles, of Merry, and how all of those change and change each other.
"Namesake" Well, Faramir is Faramir's namesake. And so.
"To Hold a Star" Tolkien gave me a love of light imagery, star imagery, etc, that came full circle in a pretty bit of smut that not many people read but I'm personally rather fond of.
"A Fair and Lordly Lad" Because he was, and he is. For different antecedents of 'he'.
"While We Raise Our Hearts in Love" What else could I possibly title a Yuletide threesome?
"Last Look" Because it's what Frodo has consciously set out to have and Merry is unknowingly having. Well, if by look I mean tup.
OK, that's seven. Onwards:
LOTRPS Titles:
I'm actually pretty bad about titling these, and I don't want to do drabbles for this meme. So here are two, I guess.
"A Friendly Visit": because they were friends in the lovers sense, and still are friends in the friends sense, and so I wanted to underscore the enormity of what happened between them.
"The Goddess-Kissed" Because I'm a little girl, and when I make something nice I want to show it off.
DC Comicsverse Titles:
"Paris' Choice, or, Clash of the Superpowers" Because it was such a silly little bit I wanted the grandest possible title for it.
"Till Human Voices Wake Us" Begun for
dc_flashfiction's Poetry challenge, even if completed for the Friendship challenge. I know enough poetry to have picked something more obscure, but the phrase was perfect for what I was trying to do."Rhetorical Questions" Because one should never ask a question one doesn't want the answer to.
"In Time of Silver Rain" Inspired by/influenced by
thete1, on whom I have the most massive intellectual/fannish crush, I used a snip of poetry for a title."Not In Our Stars" Who better than Shakespeare to express all the DOOM (doom doom doom doom doom ) inherent in the situation?
