Another Book Meme

 Courtesy of Bart

A book that made you cry:  The Railway Children by E. Nesbit ( Well the film always makes me blub like a baby)

 The Railway Children (Penguin Popular Classics)

A book that scared you: Don’t read scary books much, but The Woman in Black by Susan Hill is pretty spooky

The Woman in Black
 

A book that made you laugh: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Cold Comfort Farm (Essential.penguin)
A book that disgusted you: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged (Penguin Modern Classics)

A book you loved in elementary school: Any of the Famous Five Books by Enid Blyton

Five on a Treasure Island (Famous Five Centenary Editions)
A book you loved in middle school: The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

Silver Sword
A book you loved in high school: Emma by Jane Austen

Emma (Penguin Popular Classics)

A book you hated in high school:

Can’t remember
A book you loved in college: Narziss und Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

Narziss Und Goldmund
 

A book that challenged your identity: not sure what this means, but The Bible is the book that has actually changed my life

Holy Bible

A series that you love: Patrick O’Brian

Master and Commander

 Your favorite horror book:

Don’t do Horror

Your favorite science fiction book: The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Mote in God's Eye

Your favorite fantasy: Tolkein of course!

 The Lord of The Rings (50th Anniversary Single volume edition)

 Your favorite mystery: The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Thirty-nine Steps

Your favorite biography: Don’t read much biography but I did like Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

 Picture of - Nicholas and Alexandra


Your favorite “coming of age” book: eh? [ETA - Oh I see; a book about someone growing up? - In that case:

The "Scenes From..... "Trilogy by William Cooper ]

Scenes from provincial life

Your favorite classic:  Middlemarch by George Eliot 

 Picture of - Middlemarch - Wordsworth Classics

Your favorite romance book: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (I cannot be the only woman on this planet who fancies the pants off Lord Peter Wimsey!)

Gaudy Night (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)

Also A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Your favorite book not on this list: The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek

Picture of - The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War - Penguin Classics

1 Comment »

  1. zenny Said,

    September 29, 2007 @ 6:42 pm

    To find more about Svejk, visit SvejkCentral. There is also a new English translation.

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