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—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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May 26, 2005

book meme permalink

Okay, I got this meme from Megan.

You are stuck inside Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Oh! This is where I have to admit that I've never read Bradbury. (And yes, I do have a library and creative writing degree. This is the miserable state of education in this country. Or, representative of my dislike of fiction). But I would hope I'd be a book that is worth risking your life for.

That said, I used to be a really voracious book reader. But now, I find it kind of difficult to read books. I'm really much more attracted to magazines.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
I'm sure I have. I seem to have the ability to get a crush on just about anyone or anything. That said, I can't recall one.

The last book you bought is?
Gosh. Dean Karnazes' Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner. The book I'm dying to buy next is Laura Foster's Portland Hill Walks : Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods which I'll probably get to read the day before the Gorge.

The last book you read was?
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 7 Powerful Tools for Life and Work by Marilee G. Adams. Before that was Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture by Alan Hess (which was mostly pictures!).

What are you currently reading?


  • Dean Karnazes' Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

  • Getting things done : the art of stress-free productivity / by Allen, David

  • The life laundry : how to de-junk your life / by Walter, Dawna (I'm totally addicted to the BBC show)

  • Absolute beginner's guide to databases / by Petersen, John V.

  • Movable Type 3 bible / by Cadenhead, Rogers.

  • Walking fast / by Iknoian, Therese

  • Nuevo Tex-Mex : festive new recipes from just north of the border / by Garrido, David.

  • Mexicolor : the spirit of Mexican design / by Levick, Melba.

  • Meeting faith : the forest journals of a black buddhist nun / by Adiele, Faith.

  • Jacques Pepin's fast food my way

  • Epileptic 1 / by B, David

  • Proficient motorcycling : the ultimate guide to riding well / by Hough, David

  • The art of urban cycling : lessons from the street / by Hurst, Robert

Five books you would take to a deserted island?


  • Girls, Visions and Everything and/or After Delores by Sarah Schulman

  • Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ellen Ullman

  • The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth: Minneota, Minnesota by Bill Holm

  • Locas: A Love & Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez

  • Just about anything by Joan Didion

  • This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence by Alan Thein Durning

  • A world atlas

Posted at May 26, 2005

Comments

My husband *swears* by Proficient Motorcycling! And, I love the picture of you from the last post. So healthy, healthy, healthy you are!

Posted by: Mia at May 26, 2005 9:06 PM

Oh, happy to see someone else reading graphic novels. I've tried multiple times to read the Love and Rockets series, but have never been able to get into them for some reason. Oh well, maybe I just have to be in the right mood. I love reading these book lists -- what eclectic interests we all have!

Posted by: Megan at May 31, 2005 6:49 AM