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mrspollifax) wrote2009-06-24 04:52 pm
mrspollifax) wrote2009-06-24 04:52 pm
book meme, and bookkeeping
Book meme! I actually did this the other day but hadn't gotten around to posting it yet. Seen a bunch of places.
Don’t take too long to think about it.
Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
Copy the instructions into your own post.
1) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2) The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
3) Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
4) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
5) Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
6) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7) 1984 by George Orwell
8) Our Town by Thornton Wilder (okay, technically a play, but we read it in English class)
9) Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
10) The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
11) A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L'engle
12) The Belgariad series by David Eddings
13) The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
14) At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
15) Inherit the Stars by James P Hogan
I made this list in just a couple of minutes, and if I sat and thought about it I'd probably change it a lot (there are some things that now surprise me didn't come to mind immediately, and there's at least one thing on the list that I'm resisting the urge to apologize for). Something that's interesting to me is that, doing the list completely off the cuff as I did, all but three of the things on the list were books I read before the age of 18. That's basically half a lifetime ago, for a frame of reference. And a lot of them I associate with particular events or people. So yeah, I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it's interesting.
In things totally unrelated, last night I started trying to bring some order to the chaos that is the fic-writing portion of my hard drive. It's less that the folders aren't organized – I have a system, although I suspect it wouldn't look like a system to anyone but me, and I usually follow it, except when I'm in a hurry to save something – and more that I have so many unfinished fics and bits of fic that when I'm feeling uninspired, I just bounce around from one unfinished project to the next and basically make no progress.
Anyway, now I have a spreadsheet! With word counts and notes and file links and copious self-snarking and blaming of other people, hehe. It already has an intimidating amount of entries, and I'm not actually done adding stuff yet, but it is much easier now to navigate the jungle. *feels accomplished*
(Also I am not starting anything new until I finish some of these, or at least consign a few of them to the folder of death. I am not.)
Don’t take too long to think about it.
Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
Copy the instructions into your own post.
1) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2) The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
3) Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
4) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
5) Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
6) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7) 1984 by George Orwell
8) Our Town by Thornton Wilder (okay, technically a play, but we read it in English class)
9) Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
10) The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
11) A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L'engle
12) The Belgariad series by David Eddings
13) The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
14) At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
15) Inherit the Stars by James P Hogan
I made this list in just a couple of minutes, and if I sat and thought about it I'd probably change it a lot (there are some things that now surprise me didn't come to mind immediately, and there's at least one thing on the list that I'm resisting the urge to apologize for). Something that's interesting to me is that, doing the list completely off the cuff as I did, all but three of the things on the list were books I read before the age of 18. That's basically half a lifetime ago, for a frame of reference. And a lot of them I associate with particular events or people. So yeah, I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it's interesting.
In things totally unrelated, last night I started trying to bring some order to the chaos that is the fic-writing portion of my hard drive. It's less that the folders aren't organized – I have a system, although I suspect it wouldn't look like a system to anyone but me, and I usually follow it, except when I'm in a hurry to save something – and more that I have so many unfinished fics and bits of fic that when I'm feeling uninspired, I just bounce around from one unfinished project to the next and basically make no progress.
Anyway, now I have a spreadsheet! With word counts and notes and file links and copious self-snarking and blaming of other people, hehe. It already has an intimidating amount of entries, and I'm not actually done adding stuff yet, but it is much easier now to navigate the jungle. *feels accomplished*
(Also I am not starting anything new until I finish some of these, or at least consign a few of them to the folder of death. I am not.)