book meme!

[rivendellrose]

Gacked from sablebadger:

Answer the following questions here in comments, and then post in your journal.

1. What was the last fiction book you read that you really liked?
2. What was the last non-fiction book that was interesting to you?
3. What comic book/graphic novel?
4. What format do you prefer and why? (paperback, hardback, books on tape, eBook, comic book, graphic novel, etc. etc.)
5. Which is your favorite subject of non-fiction and why?
6. Which genre of fiction do you love the most and why?

Comments

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

1. I read The Dante Club right before school started, and I thought it was great. Really really good.

2. Well, I love the one I'm reading right now, which is Alison Weir's Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley. But I have to read part of Dickinson College, A History for class, and that's surprisingly interesting too.

3. Umm...I don't read comics. I read Queen of Wands, and that's pretty much it.

4. I like paperbacks. They're easy to carry around.

5. English history from the Tudor or Stuart period. I'm obsessed and cannot read enough about those eras. I just think they're fascinating.

6. Ooh, that's a tough one. I'll cheat and lump fantasy and sci-fi in one genre, because that includes HP, LotR and Star Wars. I like books that have an element of unreality. I want my literature as an escape.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Granted that I'm awake far too damned early (for registration), but I think I just broke my brain when you said you were reading Dickinson: A History.

*Snickers stupidly* It's like Hogwarts... only in Pennsylvania.

I probably shouldn't think this is so funny, as I'm sure there's a The University of Washington: A History somewhere. But still.

....Riiiight, I'm going back to bed, now. >.

[ursula]

1. I reread R.A. MacAvoy's Book of Kells. If you haven't discovered this book, ask to borrow my copy (a very beat-up version autographed from Bertie MacAvoy to Jill, who ungratefully sold it to a second-hand bookstore.) This is a time-travel novel, with no magic other than variations on the travel itself, and I'm only commenting here 'cause I really want to rec it to you personally :)

2. I tend not to read nonfiction straight through. I have an index to English emblems and a collection of articles on the Mamluks at the top of my stack of library books.

3. I like Preacher, though I sort of burned out on the violence.

4. Yes.

5. Art books with pretty pictures! No, seriously, when I read nonfiction I generally have a specific research question in mind. I have a lot of books on medieval knitting and the Middle East in the Middle Ages checked out right now.

6. I read sf, fantasy, historical novels, random 19th-century novels. Recently I've been focussing on the 19th-century novels, 'cause academic libraries will lend them to me. In a perfect world I'd have a steady supply of high-quality space opera . . .

(This isn't actually going in my journal, since I spend most of my time talking to my friendslist about books anyhow. If your me-centric answers are different from your badger-centric answers, though, I'd be curious to see them.)

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

1. New Spring, Robert Jordan
2. The Magic Diaries of Alestier Crowley: Tuscany
3. Cerebus: High Soceity
4. Paperback or graphic novel. Paperbacks because they're easiest for me to read in bed, and graphic novels because I love the art.
5. I generally enjoy biographies/autobiographies.
6. Science fiction, actually. I can't really say why, there's just this amazing sense of 'what if' that I get from it that I don't get from anything else.

[shoeless-girl.livejournal.com]

1. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood - a bit different to my normal reading - borrowed off my flatmate who is writing about the book for her thesis. I really enjoyed some of the imagery and the ideology.
2. The Ecology of Adaptive Radiations by Dolph Schluter - to do with my Masters - he's basically the shit in my field of interest :)
3. The Wake Neil Gaiman et al.
4. Paperbacks - easier to transport/read in the bath or in bed
5. To be really honest most non-fiction I read is to do with uni, so I can't think of a "favourite" topic
6. Fantasy/Sci fi - I agree with Fey on the what-ifs that it raises and also I like to get away from real life sometimes, and pretend that I'm one of the characters :)

[otterknit.livejournal.com]

1. Needful Things - Stephen King
2. The God Experiment - Some english dude... I hate names...
3. Ummmm... ::sigh::
4. Oooh, hardbacks... big thick ones.
5. Science, it has lots of math in it, without being a boring math book.
6. Horror, it's pretty much all I've ever been able to read.