15-Book Meme
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"This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."
[I have chosen only books that stick with me for good reasons, although some of them also have sucky elements]
1. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
2. Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
3. Hippos Go Berserk, by Sandra Boynton
4. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
6. Perfume, by Patrick Suskind
7. The Assault, by Harry Mulisch
8. Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg
9. Ringworld, by Larry Niven
10. A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
11. Collected Poems, by Rumi
12. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
13. The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
14. The Last of the Wine, by Mary Renault
15. The Drinking Life, by Pete Hammil
Hm, this has led me to recall that I used to like reading contemporary European novels in translation, though I haven't read any lately. Maybe I'll go see what's going on in that arena. Also I adore memoirs, whether factual (15) fictional (1, 7, 14), or a little of both (2).
(3) will stick with me for the rest of my life because I have read it aloud about 100 times already, because of a small person who insists on having it read to him nightly, sometimes twice. It is a permanent part of my brain. Fortunately it's also delightful.
browngirl "This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."
[I have chosen only books that stick with me for good reasons, although some of them also have sucky elements]
1. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
2. Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
3. Hippos Go Berserk, by Sandra Boynton
4. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
6. Perfume, by Patrick Suskind
7. The Assault, by Harry Mulisch
8. Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg
9. Ringworld, by Larry Niven
10. A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
11. Collected Poems, by Rumi
12. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
13. The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
14. The Last of the Wine, by Mary Renault
15. The Drinking Life, by Pete Hammil
Hm, this has led me to recall that I used to like reading contemporary European novels in translation, though I haven't read any lately. Maybe I'll go see what's going on in that arena. Also I adore memoirs, whether factual (15) fictional (1, 7, 14), or a little of both (2).
(3) will stick with me for the rest of my life because I have read it aloud about 100 times already, because of a small person who insists on having it read to him nightly, sometimes twice. It is a permanent part of my brain. Fortunately it's also delightful.
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Date: 2009-04-27 03:39 pm (UTC)*giggle*
We almost had two overlaps -- I had a hard time deciding between The Last of the Wine and the Renault I eventually chose, and I actually ran over in llisting books -- The Red Tent was 18th or 19th.
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Date: 2009-04-27 06:33 pm (UTC)Charlie is so cute with the Hippos book - he watches the book attentively while I read it and when we get to "...BERSERK" he gets all happy and grinny.