Sunday, August 30, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A survey from Miss. Hayley Hoover
1. What author do you own the most books by?
Good old J.K.
2. What book do you own the most copies of?
Saxon Math 7/6... (I'm not sure why but I got like 6 of them when my school got rid of the old edition, I guess I think that they may come in handy at some point in the future.)
3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not a whole lot, because I do that all the time and get yelled at by my friends.
Example:
4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
HayleyGHoover... I mean Hermione.
5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, almost all the year I was in 3rd grade.
6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, or The Chamber of Secrets
7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Catch22, not bad as much as it was just plain painful to get through.
8. What is the best book you've read in the past year?
I haven't read as much as I'd have liked in the past year, probably An Abundance of Katherines.
9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
1984, I love it.
10. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
An Abundance of Katherines or Stuff White People Like
11. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
the rest of the Twilight series.
12. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
A dream that I had when I was 13 or 14 in which I was riding on a boat with H.G. Wells, and that's ALL that happened.
13. What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
re-reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
14. What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Catch22 for the aforementioned reasons.
15. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Unfortunately I have not seen any.
16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The Russians, they have super neat hats.
17. Roth or Updike?
Have not read more than a small bit of either, but if I have to decide, probably Roth.
18. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
I haven't read anything by either yet, will some day.
19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer
20. Austen or Eliot?
Eliot
21. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
David Sedaris and Dave Eggers?
22. What is your favorite novel?
Brave New World
23. Play?
You're a good man Charlie Brown...
24. Poem?
I had a really good one for this, and I can't find the title of it anywhere, and don't feel the need to try to write what I can remember of it. Major FAIL
25. Essay?
I can't really think of one that stands out.
26. Work of nonfiction?
Up From Slavery
or
The Enlightenment in America (I had to read this for my History class last year)
27. Who is your favorite writer?
Rowling, Vonnegut, Orwell, and Bradbury in no particular order
28. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Well that's not really my place to judge is it?
29. What is your desert island book?
Where The Sidewalk Ends, or 1984
30. And... what are you reading right now?
20 Dog Years: Doing time at Amazon.com
Good old J.K.
2. What book do you own the most copies of?
Saxon Math 7/6... (I'm not sure why but I got like 6 of them when my school got rid of the old edition, I guess I think that they may come in handy at some point in the future.)
3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not a whole lot, because I do that all the time and get yelled at by my friends.
Example:
4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
HayleyGHoover... I mean Hermione.
5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, almost all the year I was in 3rd grade.
6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, or The Chamber of Secrets
7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Catch22, not bad as much as it was just plain painful to get through.
8. What is the best book you've read in the past year?
I haven't read as much as I'd have liked in the past year, probably An Abundance of Katherines.
9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
1984, I love it.
10. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
An Abundance of Katherines or Stuff White People Like
11. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
the rest of the Twilight series.
12. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
A dream that I had when I was 13 or 14 in which I was riding on a boat with H.G. Wells, and that's ALL that happened.
13. What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
re-reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
14. What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Catch22 for the aforementioned reasons.
15. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Unfortunately I have not seen any.
16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The Russians, they have super neat hats.
17. Roth or Updike?
Have not read more than a small bit of either, but if I have to decide, probably Roth.
18. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
I haven't read anything by either yet, will some day.
19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer
20. Austen or Eliot?
Eliot
21. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
David Sedaris and Dave Eggers?
22. What is your favorite novel?
Brave New World
23. Play?
You're a good man Charlie Brown...
24. Poem?
I had a really good one for this, and I can't find the title of it anywhere, and don't feel the need to try to write what I can remember of it. Major FAIL
25. Essay?
I can't really think of one that stands out.
26. Work of nonfiction?
Up From Slavery
or
The Enlightenment in America (I had to read this for my History class last year)
27. Who is your favorite writer?
Rowling, Vonnegut, Orwell, and Bradbury in no particular order
28. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Well that's not really my place to judge is it?
29. What is your desert island book?
Where The Sidewalk Ends, or 1984
30. And... what are you reading right now?
20 Dog Years: Doing time at Amazon.com
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
You better watch your back homeboy.
Because the Beastie Boys are coming to a town near you.
I need to write more interesting things on here.
Listen to all 36 tracks... including 16 b-sides and rarities
at checkyourhead.beastieboys.com
I need to write more interesting things on here.
Listen to all 36 tracks... including 16 b-sides and rarities
at checkyourhead.beastieboys.com
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