reading list and meme

[rivendellrose]

Reading list continued:


Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett
Daily Life in Civil War America
Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta
Stiff, Mary Roach
Just Add Hormones
Second-Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta
Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, Dirk Van Der Elst
The Swamp Thing: Saga of the Swamp Thing, Alan Moore etc.
The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria, Victor C. Uchendu
And a Time to Die, Kaufman
Carried to the Wall
Jingo, Terry Pratchett
The Middle Man (vol. 1)
Fast Food Nation
Fantasy Girls, Elyce Rae Helford
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol 2, Alan Moore
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Spook, Mary Roach
Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Nataro
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (!!!)
Rules for the Unruly
Guests of the Sheik, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (!!)
Smoke and Ashes, Tanya Huff
Fast Girls, Emily White
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Pledged, Alexandra Robbins
Somewhere to be Flying, Charles de Lint
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Smoke and Mirrors, Tanya Huff
Consuming Kids, Linn
Dancing at Armageddon, Mitchell
Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
The Birthday of the World, Ursula K. LeGuin
The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant

Added 09/04: Club Dead, Charlaine Harris
Added 09/08: Blood Price, Tanya Huff
and Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin

And the Classical personality meme that's been going around:

Orpheus 33% Extroversion, 66% Intuition, 72% Emotiveness, 71% Perceptiveness

You are an artist, an aesthete, a sensitive, and someone who has never really let go of that childlike innocence. To you, all of life has a sense of wonder in it, and the story of Orpheus was written about someone just like you. When the Argo passed the island of the Sirens, Orpheus played a song more beautiful than the Sirens to prevent the crew from becoming enticed. When his wife died, he ventured into the underworld to charm Hades but, in his naivete, he looked back becoming trapped there. You can capture your unique world view and relate it to others with the skill of a master storyteller. Your sensitivity and creativity make you a treasure to the human race, but your thin-skinned nature and innocence can cause you a lot of disenchantment and pain. What's doubly unfortunate is that, if you try to lose those traits, you never will, and everyone will be able to tell that you're putting up an artificial shell to prevent yourself from being hurt. Famous people like you: Hemingway, Shakespeare, Mr. Rogers, Melville, Nick Tosches Stay clear of: Icarus, Hermes, Atlas

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Extroversion You scored higher than 99% on Intuition You scored higher than 99% on Emotiveness You scored higher than 99% on Perceptiveness

Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Comments

[ursula]

Heh, I got the same result on that meme, and it's way less accurate for me.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I don't know... I kind of got stuck on the whole "innocence" thing. And of course there's lack of that mythic talent.... :P

Not to mention that all the results (and examples!) are men.

[ursula]

I don't trust anything that says I'm unusually emotional ;)

(Well, being a female in Greek mythology is an even worse deal!)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I don't trust anything that says that, either. Mostly because I'm trying to figure out how they're spying on me. :P

(Good point. I retract my complaint.)

[miss-arel.livejournal.com]

Heeee, you got the same one as me! We can be spoony bards together!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Spoony bards! Silly test, calling us spoony. ;)

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Isn't Anita Diamant the gal the wrote The Red Tent?
Is The Last Days of Dogtown a new book by her? I thought she only had The Red Tent and Good Harbor.
If so, was it good?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's her - it's her latest novel, and it is very good. XD

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *runs off to put it on hold*