Power Up!

Hitting the reboot button on this space, because this kind of stuff is too involved for facebook, twitter, and all those other social networking sights and too, too, too, well too off topic, for the other places I write, so back to Brain Candy we go. And what better way to get restarted than yet another bookmeme.....

At some point, reviews of I am David, the movie. Benjamin Button, The Jane Austen Book Club, The Twilight series and a couple of other recent reads but first.....

1) What author do you own the most books by?
CS LEWIS

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
THE SCARLET LETTER

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
NOT A BIT

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
HAWKEYE


4a) What fictional character would you most like to be?


4b) What fictional character do you think most resembles you?
JANE EYRE


5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD -- Harper Lee


6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
ANYTHING NANCY DREW

7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
A PAINTED HOUSE -- John Grisham

8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS -- Sandra Gruen

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury, ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac, and The GOSPEL of JOHN (not a book, the actual Gospel) -- read all three together and you'll likely see a relational subtext. Yes, it's official, I'm *still* a Nerd

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
DOES anybody really ever deserve to win it?

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
OUTLANDER -- Diana Gabaldon

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
ANYTHING "classic"

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
TO DREAM you actually have to sleep, right?

14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
EVER SINCE I FINISHED SCHOOL, THEY'VE *ALL* BEEN LOWBROW

15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
RUSSIANS

18) Roth or Updike?
UPDIKE

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
WHO?

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
SHAKESPEARE

21) Austen or Eliot?
AUSTEN

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
POETRY

23) What is your favorite novel?
ALL THE aforementioned ones AND the GREAT GATSBY AND so many more that I just can't list

24) Play?
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

25) Poem?
FIRE and ICE -- Robert Frost (simple yet exquisite, I think)

26) Essay?
A MODEST PROPOSAL-- Jonathan Swift

27) Short story?
SCHRODINGER'S CAT by Ursula K. LeGuin (just 'cause I love to teach that one --it's fun to watch students try to talk about it) but really, all things FLANNERY O'CONNOR

28) Work of non-fiction?
NICKLE and DIMED by Barbara Ehreneich

29) Who is your favorite writer?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, the BRONTE(s), EDITH WHARTON, JOSEPH CONRAD, FITZGERALD, CS LEWIS, RUSHDIE
GABALDON, CUSSLER, FFORDE, SHREVE (so more a list of folks I tend to like)

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Most of my gradschool classmates (oh wait -- that's me being snarky.... bad, bad).
Otherwise -- GREGORY MAGUIRE (still don't get all the hoopla over WICKED)

31) What is your desert island book?
TOLKIEN'S collected works (including the SILMARILLION) -- Maybe on a desert island I'd actually read them ;)

32) And … what are you reading right now?
something by ALICE HOFFMAN (can't remember the title-- that's how riveting it is-- and I"m too lazy to go upstairs and check)