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alcesverdes) wrote2010-08-25 12:48 pm
alcesverdes) wrote2010-08-25 12:48 pm
Book Meme - Day 16
* I don't know why I hadn't seen Hot Fuzz before. I'm not one to watch buddy cop movies, but this one is just amazing. It's funny and dramatic and the climax was just freaking brilliant. Enough to even warrant the extra html to the very least. :D
Now I want to watch Shaun of the Dead again. XD; But I promisedkalligeneia I'd see The Silence of the Hams first, and I haven't finished watching the second season of Pushing Daisies. And there are a few other things in that queue.
* I got the Dead After Dark audiobook and I finished listening to chapter 3 a while ago. I don't have much contact with Southern American English, so it's a good listening exercise. I'm understanding practically everything. \o/
Also, this is so anti-Twilight it's not funny. No, wait, it is! Starting with the fact that the prose doesn't want me to take my eyes out--although that could be said about most printed fiction. :x
Other than that, so many details in this book are the exact opposite of Twilight: Dead After Dark happens in the south; Bill has a "faint glow" only Sookie can see; Sookie is the one who can read minds andI don't want to strangle her she rescues Bill first from danger; Bill is sympathetic and I don't want to strangle him tender and sweet and at the same time, Sookie and the reader are reminded constantly of how dangerous and terrifying he actually is.
So far, I'm liking it. 8D
Day 16 – Favorite poem or collection of poetry
Again, having to decide just one drop from a very vast ocean. /o\ But I tolddanly I would give an answer this time, and here it is.
CORRESPONDANCES
Charles Baudelaire
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.
Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent
Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,
Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarité,
Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
--Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transport de l'esprit et des sens.
Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)
Day 02 – A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about
Day 03 – The best book you’ve read in the last 12 months
Day 04 – Your favorite book or series ever
Day 05 – A book or series you hate
Day 06 – Favorite book of your favorite series OR your favorite book of all time
Day 07 – Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise
Day 08 – A book everyone should read at least once
Day 09 – Best scene ever
Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 – A book that disappointed you
Day 12 – A book or series of books you’vewatched read more than five times
Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)
Day 14 – Favorite character in a book (of any sex or gender)
Day 15 – Your “comfort” book
Day 16 – Favorite poem or collection of poetry
Day 17 – Favorite story or collection of stories (short stories, novellas, novelettes, etc.)
Day 18 – Favorite beginning scene in a book
Day 19 – Favorite book cover (bonus points for posting an image!)
Day 20 – Favorite kiss
Day 21 – Favorite romantic/sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 22 – Favorite non-sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 23 – Most annoying character ever
Day 24 – Best quote from a novel
Day 25 – Any five books from your “to be read” stack
Day 26 – OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending
Day 27 – If a book contains ______, you will always read it (and a book or books that contain it)!
Day 28 – First favorite book or series obsession
Day 29 – Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
Day 30 – What book are you reading right now?
Now I want to watch Shaun of the Dead again. XD; But I promised
kalligeneia I'd see The Silence of the Hams first, and I haven't finished watching the second season of Pushing Daisies. And there are a few other things in that queue.* I got the Dead After Dark audiobook and I finished listening to chapter 3 a while ago. I don't have much contact with Southern American English, so it's a good listening exercise. I'm understanding practically everything. \o/
Also, this is so anti-Twilight it's not funny. No, wait, it is! Starting with the fact that the prose doesn't want me to take my eyes out--although that could be said about most printed fiction. :x
Other than that, so many details in this book are the exact opposite of Twilight: Dead After Dark happens in the south; Bill has a "faint glow" only Sookie can see; Sookie is the one who can read minds and
So far, I'm liking it. 8D
Day 16 – Favorite poem or collection of poetry
Again, having to decide just one drop from a very vast ocean. /o\ But I told
danly I would give an answer this time, and here it is.CORRESPONDANCES
Charles Baudelaire
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.
Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent
Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,
Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarité,
Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
--Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transport de l'esprit et des sens.
Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)
Day 02 – A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about
Day 03 – The best book you’ve read in the last 12 months
Day 04 – Your favorite book or series ever
Day 05 – A book or series you hate
Day 06 – Favorite book of your favorite series OR your favorite book of all time
Day 07 – Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise
Day 08 – A book everyone should read at least once
Day 09 – Best scene ever
Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 – A book that disappointed you
Day 12 – A book or series of books you’ve
Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)
Day 14 – Favorite character in a book (of any sex or gender)
Day 15 – Your “comfort” book
Day 16 – Favorite poem or collection of poetry
Day 17 – Favorite story or collection of stories (short stories, novellas, novelettes, etc.)
Day 18 – Favorite beginning scene in a book
Day 19 – Favorite book cover (bonus points for posting an image!)
Day 20 – Favorite kiss
Day 21 – Favorite romantic/sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 22 – Favorite non-sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 23 – Most annoying character ever
Day 24 – Best quote from a novel
Day 25 – Any five books from your “to be read” stack
Day 26 – OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending
Day 27 – If a book contains ______, you will always read it (and a book or books that contain it)!
Day 28 – First favorite book or series obsession
Day 29 – Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
Day 30 – What book are you reading right now?
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