A lot of book bloggers and other bookish people are going to spend the greater part of this week in New York City at BookExpo America. However, many of us live too far away and can’t afford to go to BEA, so we’re celebrating books and blogging where we are. The assignment for today is to introduce yourself and your blog. So I thought that sharing with you a few of my favorite (mainly bookish) things would be a good way for us to get acquainted.
French Novel: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
Spanish novel: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
American novel: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Russian novel: The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoyevsky.
Memoir/biography: The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.
Christian author: C.S. Lewis
Mystery author: Dorothy Sayers
Musical: Man of La Mancha
Candy bar: Baby Ruth
TV series: LOST, of course.
Current TV series: Friday Night Lights, even though it’s frustrating the heck out of me.
Board game: Scrabble
iPhone app: Words with Friends, an app I just discovered and cant get enough of.
Blog other than my own: The Common Room or Mental Multivitamin
Computer brand: Apple
Fruit: Strawberries
History mini-series: John Adams, based on the book by David McCullough
Beverage: Iced tea with lemon and sugar
U.S. President: Teddy Roosevelt. He was by far the most interesting and personable of the presidents, even if I don’t agree with all of his policies and actions.
Shakespeare comedy: Much Ado about Nothing
Shakespeare tragedy: Hamlet
Shakespeare adapted to movie: Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V
Charles Dickens novel: David Copperfield
Nonfiction U.S. history book: Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone.
Nonfiction British history book: The Conquering Family and its sequels by Thomas Costain.
Poet: Edgar Allan Poe
Poem: Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Narnia book: The Silver Chair
Movie (comedy): The Princess Bride or It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Comedic novelist: P.G. Wodehouse
Fantasy novel: The Lord of the RIngs, grandaddy of them all.
Time travel books: Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis.
Romance novel: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Fictional couple: Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.
Movie (drama): Chariots of Fire
Hymn: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross by Isaac Watts.
Love song: Desperado by The Eagles.
Month: October
Season: Autumn
Pie: Pumpkin with pecan halves arranged in a pleasing pattern on top.
Color: purple
Dystopian novel: Children of Men by P.D. James.
Announced 2012 presidential candidate as of today: Rick Santorum????
Classic children’s book: Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott.
Young adult novel: Christy by Catherine Marshall.
Picture book: Oh, Were They Ever Happy by Peter Spier.
Easy reader: Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel.
Quotation: “I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?” ~C.S. Lewis.
Book of the Bible: The Gospel of John.
Bible verse: Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.” John 6:68
If you just can’t get enough of this sort of thing and want more ME, here’s a post on 52 Things that Fascinate Me.
Happy Armchair BEA to all ye who enter here.
That Lewis quote stopped me in my tracks. Do you know what it is from?
This might be fun to adapt as a meme — I might give it a whirl at some point, though I have a hard time picking one favorite in almost any category.
I agree: this would be a fun meme. We just watched The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the other night, and I was reminded that it’s been too long since I’ve read Narnia. I need to get back to that, and your post reminded me again. Thanks!
Loved To Kill a Mockingbird, The Brothers Karamazov, Edgar Allan Poe, and several others on your list.
Eight Cousins and several other LMA books carried me through my childhood.
Thanks for sharing.
Here’s MY ARMCHAIR BEA KICK-OFF POST
Hi Sherry. Now I feel guilty I made such a short intro post on my blog. I may go back and use some of your prompts. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane are a favorite fictional couple of mine as well. I reread those mysteries often, though it’s partly because I have a fondness for Bunter.
wow, i don’t know if i could ever choose favorites of so many things. i’m notoriously bad at choosing a single thing to represent my tastes in any particular category.
Barbara, the quotation is from one of my favorite Lewis books, Till We Have Faces. If you haven’t read it, I recommend it. although I would warn that it is not easy to interpret. It’s full of a lot of themes and even lessons, but the lessons are not simple to verbalize.
A couple years back I had fun doing a series of Don Quixote posts as I was re-reading the book.
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So many of your favorites are the same as mine and I see NEW TO ME titles! Yeah!
I will have to tell my son there is another Christian online who loves that Eagles song.
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