The Friday Five for 14 December 2018: Books

[anais_pf]

These questions written by yours truly, a.k.a., “the mean aunt who gives books as gifts.”

1. Do you enjoy receiving books as holiday or birthday gifts?

2. What book are you reading (or, what is the last book you read)?

3. Are you enjoying (or, did you enjoy) that book? Why or why not?

4. About how many books do you read in an average year?

5. What are some of the books on your to-read pile (or list)?

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[kalmialatifolia]

https://marika-kailaya.dreamwidth.org/1339811.html

1. Do you enjoy receiving books as holiday or birthday gifts?
i prefer books over anything else. i mean, that and glitter.

2. What book are you reading (or, what is the last book you read)?
i'm reading patrick taylor's an irish country village.

3. Are you enjoying (or, did you enjoy) that book? Why or why not?
it's a gentle and easy read with domesticity porn and 1960s medical bits, it's basically tailor-made for me. also on every SINGLE PAGE there is at least one absolutely genius turn of phrase including "the personality of a bagful of hammers" and "heavily encatted," but most of which pertain to being ACRIDLY SCATHING. there's also a bit where an 80-year-old wife describes trying to cure her husband's urinary retention by taking his dingdong and blowing in the end of it like the plumber did to her sink pipe. there's a myasthenia gravis patient which is neat.

4. About how many books do you read in an average year?
uhhh i just go into the library every couple of weeks and grab around ~5-10 books + all the other stuff i read + the stuff i thieve from various people (my in-laws are growing pretty accustomed to finding me in their house holding a stack of books i found, and my mother has given up telling me not to take books over the border). so i'd like to go with 'a lot.'

5. What are some of the books on your to-read pile (or list)?
*sigh* i bought 36 books recently, so my to-read list OF BOOKS I OWN (and not books i'm trying to buy/steal/borrow/get from the library) [THAT ARE IN THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE I HAVE UNREAD BOOKS ELSEWHERE]:
mark haddon: a spot of bother
evelyn waugh: men at arms
pat barker: union street
stephen king: dreamcatcher
leo tolstoy: war & peace
leo tolstoy: anna karenina
john berendt: the city of falling angels
evelyn waugh: brideshead revisited
barbara kingsolver: high tide in tuscon
maud hart lovelace: betsy in spite of herself
stephen king: the tommyknockers
douglas copeland: all families are psychotic
the dead sea scrolls
lauren weisberger: the devil wears prada
virginia nixon: mary's mother: saint anne in late medieval europe

as well as a misc assortment of compilations, grimoires, short stories, and poetry collections.

[imarcy]

Answer here: https://matopa.dreamwidth.org/858095.html :P

[anais_pf]

Your answers made me smile. :)

[kalmialatifolia]

this in turn makes me smile! i am also mean book aunt. thanks for your fun questions.

[spikesgirl58]

my answers are here: https://spikesgirl58.dreamwidth.org/1753659.html

[musyc]

https://musyc.dreamwidth.org/227639.html I liked this five! :D

[vaxhacker]

Mine are here https://vaxhacker.dreamwidth.org/346144.html

[bluegansey]

https://bluegansey.dreamwidth.org/151298.html

[sorchasilver]

Done!

[lightbird]

Here are my answers.

[scrubjayspeaks]

Answers! Man, now I'm sad I don't read more fiction.

[anais_pf]

It's never too late!

[archersangel]

https://archersangel.dreamwidth.org/258902.html

[soundofsunlight]

Here are my answers: https://soundofsunlight.dreamwidth.org/91816.html

I enjoyed these questions! And I would love to have an aunt who gives books as gifts. :)

Oh yay books

[jack]

https://jack.dreamwidth.org/1093582.html

[catness]

Better late than never... https://catness.dreamwidth.org/354535.html