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Feb. 3rd, 2009 02:35 pmA bookshelf meme, a la ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jsealand:
Tell me about the book that has been on your shelf the longest.
Oh Lords, umm... probably something along the lines of Mr. Popper's Penguins or The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle? Or maybe The Colour Kittens? One of the ones that was my mum's as a girl and so arrived on my shelves before I arrived to have shelves. The Colour Kittens will always be a favourite because it's delightfully psychadelic but also quite innocent and it's EDUCATIONAL! Teaches about how to mix colours to make other colours. Things every child needs to know. *nods solemnly*
Tell me about a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (i.e. a person, a place, a time, etc.)
For some reason, I have a very clear memory of sitting on the floor of my room, having pulled everything off my bed so it could be burped (water bed), surrounded by pillows, and reading Elizabeth Peters's Ape Who Guards the Balance while listening to the Beatles's Hard Day's Night album. It would've been right after the book came out, so, around 1998. It was sunny and my dad was clearing pine needles out of the rain gutters right outside my window. Crystal clear memory, no specific event attached.
Tell me about a book you acquired in some interesting way (gift, serendipity in a used book store, prize, etc.)
I have a copy of the special crew only Andrew Lloyd Webber anniversary book because one of my TDs in high school worked on the big show and doesn't actually like musicals.
Tell me about the most recent addition to your shelves.
Um... Technically I think it's Brian Froud's 25th Anniversary Faeries book, a gift from my mum out of the used book bin at the library. The last thing I bought is The Coyote Road, the third mythic anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. I haven't managed to read more than a couple pages though, because of Hedda. Hopefully in the next few days, that'll change.
Tell me about a book that has been with you to the most places...
Tam Lin comes with me whenever I fly or train. I read it at least once a year, oftentimes more, and it is, as previously noted in other entries, THE BEST BOOK EVER. It has Shakespeare and faeries and a small liberal arts college and 13th century Scottish balladry and Classics and theatre and it is *ahem* THE BEST BOOK EVER. EVER. EVER.
Tell me about a bonus book that doesn't fit any of the above questions.
Um... But... there are so many... Ooh! Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody mysteries, about an intrepid turn of the century female Egyptologist and her family! The first book is The Crocodile on the Sandbank and the most recent (I think, I missed a couple in college) is Tomb of the Golden Bird, the 18th in the series. Elizabeth Peters also writes the Vicky Bliss mysteries (about a female museum curator) and writes Gothic romance/mysteries as Barbara Michaels and non-fiction Egyptology as Barbara Mertz (her real name)
jsealand:Tell me about the book that has been on your shelf the longest.
Oh Lords, umm... probably something along the lines of Mr. Popper's Penguins or The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle? Or maybe The Colour Kittens? One of the ones that was my mum's as a girl and so arrived on my shelves before I arrived to have shelves. The Colour Kittens will always be a favourite because it's delightfully psychadelic but also quite innocent and it's EDUCATIONAL! Teaches about how to mix colours to make other colours. Things every child needs to know. *nods solemnly*
Tell me about a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (i.e. a person, a place, a time, etc.)
For some reason, I have a very clear memory of sitting on the floor of my room, having pulled everything off my bed so it could be burped (water bed), surrounded by pillows, and reading Elizabeth Peters's Ape Who Guards the Balance while listening to the Beatles's Hard Day's Night album. It would've been right after the book came out, so, around 1998. It was sunny and my dad was clearing pine needles out of the rain gutters right outside my window. Crystal clear memory, no specific event attached.
Tell me about a book you acquired in some interesting way (gift, serendipity in a used book store, prize, etc.)
I have a copy of the special crew only Andrew Lloyd Webber anniversary book because one of my TDs in high school worked on the big show and doesn't actually like musicals.
Tell me about the most recent addition to your shelves.
Um... Technically I think it's Brian Froud's 25th Anniversary Faeries book, a gift from my mum out of the used book bin at the library. The last thing I bought is The Coyote Road, the third mythic anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. I haven't managed to read more than a couple pages though, because of Hedda. Hopefully in the next few days, that'll change.
Tell me about a book that has been with you to the most places...
Tam Lin comes with me whenever I fly or train. I read it at least once a year, oftentimes more, and it is, as previously noted in other entries, THE BEST BOOK EVER. It has Shakespeare and faeries and a small liberal arts college and 13th century Scottish balladry and Classics and theatre and it is *ahem* THE BEST BOOK EVER. EVER. EVER.
Tell me about a bonus book that doesn't fit any of the above questions.
Um... But... there are so many... Ooh! Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody mysteries, about an intrepid turn of the century female Egyptologist and her family! The first book is The Crocodile on the Sandbank and the most recent (I think, I missed a couple in college) is Tomb of the Golden Bird, the 18th in the series. Elizabeth Peters also writes the Vicky Bliss mysteries (about a female museum curator) and writes Gothic romance/mysteries as Barbara Michaels and non-fiction Egyptology as Barbara Mertz (her real name)
