30 Day Book Meme (2014 version) - Day 1
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desertvixenBooks. If you've been reading this journal for any length of time, you know I love them. Whether they're paper or on the Kindle, or the iPad, or the computer - where they're brand new collector's hardbacks or battered copies from the used book store - I love them. I own somewhere between 2000-3000, counting electronic format.
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desert_sdwndr was in my life as much as he is now - 2010. Some answers will have changed (I am going to try to not use the same answers), but one thing that doesn't: I love books.
Day 01 – Best book you read within the last year
2010: Mission of Honor, by David Weber
After giving this one some thought, I have to go with Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, by Lois McMaster Bujold. (Get used to that name, you'll be seeing it a few times over the next 30 days.)
Despite my great love for LMB, after I read Cryoburn, I found it hard to really read her for awhile. After I managed to hookdesert_sdwndr on the Vorkosigan Saga and got myself assigned a fanfic challenge involving LMB's work, I ended up working through the whole series again, and ended up with CVA. In series chronology, it happens before Cryoburn. To me, it feels like LMB's farewell to the Vorkosigan Saga, and it's a hell of a farewell. It has all the things I love about LMB - dialogue and characters and scenery. And it's a happy, satisfying book. It's Ivan's book, and I couldn't have asked for more. He's grown over the course of the series, and LMB gives him a lady worthy of his character. The end... oh the end makes me happy and makes me want more books. There likely won't be more, which makes me a little sad. But this was the best book of the year, because I got to experience the joy of reading a new Bujold book.
Some choice lines:
Maybe only love gave you more than what you’d dealt for. Oh. So that’s what this is. Oh . . . So . . . if you spurned a miracle because it seemed to come too easily, would you ever get another? She suspected not. Hang on to this one, then. Hang on for all you’re worth.
Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time—these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.
“I would follow you to the ends of the bunker,” he promised.
DV
Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times
Day 03 – Your favorite series
Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series
Day 05 – A book that makes you happy
Day 06 – A book that makes you sad
Day 07 – Most underrated book
Day 08 – Most overrated book
Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 10 – Favorite classic book
Day 11 – A book you hated
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time
The last time I did this was before
desert_sdwndr was in my life as much as he is now - 2010. Some answers will have changed (I am going to try to not use the same answers), but one thing that doesn't: I love books.Day 01 – Best book you read within the last year
2010: Mission of Honor, by David Weber
After giving this one some thought, I have to go with Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, by Lois McMaster Bujold. (Get used to that name, you'll be seeing it a few times over the next 30 days.)
Despite my great love for LMB, after I read Cryoburn, I found it hard to really read her for awhile. After I managed to hook
desert_sdwndr on the Vorkosigan Saga and got myself assigned a fanfic challenge involving LMB's work, I ended up working through the whole series again, and ended up with CVA. In series chronology, it happens before Cryoburn. To me, it feels like LMB's farewell to the Vorkosigan Saga, and it's a hell of a farewell. It has all the things I love about LMB - dialogue and characters and scenery. And it's a happy, satisfying book. It's Ivan's book, and I couldn't have asked for more. He's grown over the course of the series, and LMB gives him a lady worthy of his character. The end... oh the end makes me happy and makes me want more books. There likely won't be more, which makes me a little sad. But this was the best book of the year, because I got to experience the joy of reading a new Bujold book.Some choice lines:
Maybe only love gave you more than what you’d dealt for. Oh. So that’s what this is. Oh . . . So . . . if you spurned a miracle because it seemed to come too easily, would you ever get another? She suspected not. Hang on to this one, then. Hang on for all you’re worth.
Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time—these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.
“I would follow you to the ends of the bunker,” he promised.
DV
Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times
Day 03 – Your favorite series
Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series
Day 05 – A book that makes you happy
Day 06 – A book that makes you sad
Day 07 – Most underrated book
Day 08 – Most overrated book
Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 10 – Favorite classic book
Day 11 – A book you hated
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time
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Date: 2014-05-04 07:56 pm (UTC)And yes, it felt to me, too, like her farewell to the series.
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Date: 2014-05-05 02:14 pm (UTC)I define "last year" for the purposes of this meme as the last 12 months. I did read it this year...
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Date: 2014-05-05 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-05 02:33 pm (UTC)Thanks for the suggestion, edit made!
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Date: 2014-05-05 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-05 02:35 pm (UTC)There's not a wrong or right way - what matters is that you're writing.
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Date: 2014-05-05 05:50 pm (UTC)