So Many Precious Books, So Little Time

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Hoochie

Since this meme has been going around for such a long time, I am not going to tag anyone in particular. However, if you haven’t done this meme or want to do it again, consider yourself tagged.

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I've been tagged by Marg at ReadingAdventures

The rules remain the same as last time:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

The nearest book is Hawaii by James Michner:

"So the return trip was authorized, and the community began assembling it's pitiful stores of spare food. This time there was no dried taro, no coconut, no breadfruit, no bamboo lengths to carry water. There were, fortunately, some bananas, but they did not dry and carry well.

Since this one has been going around for awhile I'm not going to tag specific people, but if you would like to do this fun meme, consider yourself tagged! Your it!

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Jill at The Magic Lasso tagged me for this meme,which originated here .

"As I read yet another book review of a memoir this weekend, my husband told me that I should write one. I said that my story would be much too short and rather boring so when I ran across the following book I decided it was just my speed. A six word memoir! Written by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, Not Quite What I was Expecting: Six Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure is a compilation based on the story that Hemingway once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his life in six words. His words were- For Sale: baby shoes, never worn. There’s a video on Amazon with examples from the book, it sounds like a fun read! I’d like to start a six word memoir meme and here are the rules:

1. Write your own six word memoir
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere
4 .Tag five more blogs with links
5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!"

MY SIX-WORD MEMOIR

Life's too short and too long!

I now tag:

Dana
Laura
Kristy
3M
Wendy

I Hope you all have fun with this one.

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Marg at Reading Adventures tagged me for a really fun meme.

The rules of this particular meme are:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the next three sentences
5. Tag five people

This is a really easy one for me, as I just so happen to have Sula by Toni Morrison right by my computer waiting for me to write a review. (Tune in later for the review).

For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She went then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes' of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tidy bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.

Not funny, I know, but that is what is on page 123.

Now to tag 5 people:
Michelle at 1morechapter.com
Jill at The Magic Lasso
Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic
Dana at Once Upon a Book
Aarti at Book Lust

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Aarti (Book Lust) tagged me for this meme, an invention of Eva (A Striped Armchair).

Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews? Anything written by authors such as Jackie Collins. They all say, "formula chick lit" to me!
If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be?

Scarlet O’Hara, Rose the elephant (from Water from Elephants), and Hester Prine. LOL! That would be a site. Besides, Scarlett and I can couch Hester on how to stick up for herself.

(Borrowing shamelessly from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde): you are told you can’t die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for awhile, eventually you realize it’s past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave?

The Wings of a Dove. I tried to read it once! I really think I would die before I’m half way through it!

Come on, we’ve all been there. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you’ve read, when in fact you’ve been nowhere near it?

Seriously, I can’t think of any.

As an addition to the last question, has there been a book that you really thought you had read, only to realize when you read a review about it/go to ‘reread’ it that you haven’t? Which book?
Perhaps I’m loosing my memory in my middle age, but I can’t think of any.
You’re interviewing for the post of Official Book Advisor to some VIP (who’s not a big reader). What’s the first book you’d recommend and why? (If you feel like you’d have to know the person, go ahead of personalize the VIP)

If the VIP likes historical or adventure movies, then I would recommend The Secret River by Kate Grenville, because it’s an all time favorite of mine.

A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with?

Just one language, that’s tough! I’d have to say Cantonese. I’m sure some of the books have been lost in translation and also because I know a lot of Cantonese speaking people, since I live in Vancouver.

A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread one a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick?

The Secret River by Kate Grenville. I love that book!

I know that the book blogging community, and its various challenges, have pushed my reading borders. What’s one bookish thing you ‘discovered’ from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)?

The blogging community has been feeding my book habit and it’s spreading like wild fire. My To-be-read list just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It has also gotten me to try reading authors from genres that I don’t normally care for.

That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she’s granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leather-bound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favorite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free.

No leather, I’m vegan! I actually prefer paperback because there easier to curl up with! It would be a huge library like the size that are in the movie adaptations of Jane Austin books, but without the stuffiness. There would still be the floor to ceiling built-in bookcases surrounding the room, however there would be tons of natural light coming through skylights and windows. There would be a desk with a computer, etc and a chase lounge. Hardwood floor accented with tasteful rugs, and of course a gas fireplace and a couch and two comfy chairs. Of course, all of those built in bookcases would be filled with book of my choosing and ones recommended. Since this is a fairy granting this wish, I assume that at least one of the bookcases will automatically fill itself with new books periodically!

And the final portion of this assignment is to tag four others:

Under a Blood Red Sky
Once Upon a Book
The Sleepy Reader
Blogging My Books


And, for extra credit, if you leave a comment letting Eva know you've done the meme with a link to the post, she will give you some link love via a big list of who's participated. Additionally, if you link back to her original post, she will enter you in a drawing to win The House at Riverton. If you're an American, this is especially exciting since it isn't going to published until April. ;) To be in the drawing, you must have posted the meme (and commented) by February 5th, which is when she is holding the drawing.

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