Monday MEME

Meme’ng Books on Monday


I got this from Savvy Wit & Verse who took it from The Boston Bibliophile and The Bookkitten:

1. Hardback, trade paperback or mass market paperback?
It doesn’t matter if the story is a good one though the mass market books tend to fall apart quickly.

2. Barnes & Noble or Borders?
W don’t have either one in Canada, but I am partial to BnN.

3. Bookmark or dog-ear?
I used to always dog-ear but Rob has a horror of it, so now I use bookmarks that tend to be whatever is handiest and doesn’t bend the book spine.

4. Amazon or brick and mortar?
I like to roam the shelves more than I like shopping online.

5. Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
That falls squarely in my husband’s Virgo territory because I pile them up at random.

6. Keep, throw away, or sell?
All of the above

7. Keep dust jacket or toss it?
Toss.

8. Read with dust jacket or remove it?
They get in the way though I sometimes use them as bookmarks.

9. Short story or novel?
Novels but I enjoy a good short story collection every now and then.

10. Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
God save me from them both.

11. Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
I prefer ending chapters but sometimes I can’t make it.

12. “It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”?
As long as what comes next is good, I don’t care.

13. Buy or borrow?
We do the bookmobile thing every Wednesday night. It is a family ritual.

14. New or used?
Doesn’t matter.

15. Buying choice: book reviews, recommendations, or browse?
I have done all of the above.

16. Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
Again, as long as it serves the story and the story was good.

17. Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?
Evening or night but a really good book has me reading 24/7 until I am done.

18. Stand-alone or series?
Doesn’t matter.

19. Favorite series?
Anne Mcaffrey’s Pern series, David Eddings’ Belgaraid and Herbert’s Dune

20. Favorite children’s book?
Harriet the Spy

21. Favorite YA book?
I read Judy Blume as a kid but I loved teaching Gary Paulsen when I was still at the middle school.

22. Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
The River Thames by Helen Humphries

23. Favorite books read last year?
See Above

24. Favorite books of all time?
Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird

25. What are you reading right now?
Afraid by Jack Kilborn

26. What are you reading next?
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine because it showed up via book fairy magic in the post last week.

27. Favorite book to recommend to an eleven-year-old?
The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix

28. Favorite book to reread?
I don’t have time to reread anything.

29. Do you ever smell books?
No.

30. Do you ever read Primary source documents?
I had to google this and the answer is “no”.

Anyone joining in today? Don’t feel obligated to answer them all.

I am Ingrid


Found this at Sleepy Reader. It’s fun in a scary accurate sort of way, which is to say that it is probably too revealing.


Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz…

You Are an Ingrid!

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You are an Ingrid — “I am unique”

 

Ingrids have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

 

How to Get Along with Me

  • * Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
  • * Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
  • * Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
  • * Though I don’t always want to be cheered up when I’m feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
  • * Don’t tell me I’m too sensitive or that I’m overreacting!

 

What I Like About Being an Ingrid

  • * my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
  • * my ability to establish warm connections with people
  • * admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
  • * my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
  • * being unique and being seen as unique by others
  • * having aesthetic sensibilities
  • * being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

 

What’s Hard About Being an Ingrid

  • * experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
  • * feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don’t deserve to be loved
  • * feeling guilty when I disappoint people
  • * feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
  • * expecting too much from myself and life
  • * fearing being abandoned
  • * obsessing over resentments
  • * longing for what I don’t have

 

Ingrids as Children Often

  • * have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
  • * are very sensitive
  • * feel that they don’t fit in
  • * believe they are missing something that other people have
  • * attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
  • * become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
  • * feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents’ divorce)

 

Ingrids as Parents

  • * help their children become who they really are
  • * support their children’s creativity and originality
  • * are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
  • * are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
  • * are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

 


Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy

Photo Memeing for Monday


Found this at Silverstar’s a bit ago. The original directions are as follows:

 

  • Post the 6th picture in your 6th folder.
  • Post that picture on your blog along with the story that goes with it.

 

I used the 6th folder but just went with three random photos. You are, as always, free to do as you please should you choose to participate.

This is Rob’s car. It’s sitting out back of our garage and has been for a number of years now. Before that, it was sitting in a field at Shelley’s folks place near Grande Prairie. Rob has lost the desire to fix it up and is going to try and sell it.

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MK’s birthday last month is next up. We had sticky cinnamon rolls instead of cake because she isn’t a cake person.

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Finally here are the girls this last Christmas. The older two came and spent the night and there was the usual Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas morning breakfast.

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