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Meme: Busic and Mooks
Pick your 5 current favorite bands/singers.
1. The first song of theirs that you heard
2. The song that made you love them that you'll always love
3. Your current favorite
Dresden Dolls
Coin Operated Boy
Half-Jack
The Kill
Apocalyptica
Hall of the Mountain King (very weird live version)
Somewhere around Nothing
Hope (both volumes)
Runrig
Running to the Light
Stamping Ground
Clash of the Ash
Nightwish
Over the Hills
Over the Hills
7 Days to the wolves
Shakra
Take me now
Rising High
Ashes to Ashes
Bonus:
Take That
Pray
Loved them from even before hearing a song (pathetic teenage girl that I was)
The Garden
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Please don't make me go and count!
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Sidney Sheldon - Rage of Angels
(The first copy took a bath, the second got lost and found after I got the third copy, and then I got it in English and as an English Audiobook as well)
3) What fictional character in a book are you secretly in love with?
secretly? You must be joking!
Severus Snape of course!
4) What book have you read more than any other?
I have no clue.....
5) What was your favourite book when you were 10-years-old?
The "Bille und Zottel" Series - I liked it so much that I got the whole series again last year
6) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
7) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
The Women of the Otherworld Series
(Well, most of the series)
8) If you could tell everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
Not every book is for everyone.
9) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Bloody "Ulysses" of course
10) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Keep them all away from me please! (Together with all other so called "classic must reads")
11) Shakespeare, Milton or Chaucer?
Chaucer
12) Austen Or Eliot?
Neither
13) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
"Classic must reads"
14) What is your favourite novel?
No chance I can choose just one
15) Play?
Der Besuch der alten Dame
16) Poem?
Poems are for writing, not for reading
17) Essay?
WTF?!?.
18) Short story?
I don't read a lot of them, they to short for my liking
19) Non-fiction?
I like non-fiction, but not so much that I would claim to like one more then another
20) Graphic novel?
Again, while I read them, I would not choose one over the other
21) Memoir?
That book from that French girl who was in a malysian Prison in the 80ies
22) History?
Das Lächeln der Fortuna - Rebecca Gable
23) Mystery or noir?
I prefer thrillers
24) Science fiction?
I prefer Fantasy
SF has to many star-ships for my like
25) Who is your favorite writer?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
26) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Paolo Catelo
27) What are you reading right now?
Jack Kilborn - Afraid
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Jim Butcher - Proven Guilty
II.
01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
I have no problems eating whole meals while reading
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I only write in books if it is a workbook
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
All of the above, sometimes at the same time
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
Both
05. Hard copy or audiobooks?
both, ebooks too!
06. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point?
Any point
07. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence?
I try to get the sentence! Unless it is a word that comes up again and again and again
08. What are you currently reading?
See above.
09. What is the last book you bought?
Volumes 7-10 in the Harry Dresden Series
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
Usually around 10
11. Do you like re-reading books?
Yes, but there is so much out there that I have not read yet....
1. The first song of theirs that you heard
2. The song that made you love them that you'll always love
3. Your current favorite
Dresden Dolls
Coin Operated Boy
Half-Jack
The Kill
Apocalyptica
Hall of the Mountain King (very weird live version)
Somewhere around Nothing
Hope (both volumes)
Runrig
Running to the Light
Stamping Ground
Clash of the Ash
Nightwish
Over the Hills
Over the Hills
7 Days to the wolves
Shakra
Take me now
Rising High
Ashes to Ashes
Bonus:
Take That
Pray
Loved them from even before hearing a song (pathetic teenage girl that I was)
The Garden
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Please don't make me go and count!
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Sidney Sheldon - Rage of Angels
(The first copy took a bath, the second got lost and found after I got the third copy, and then I got it in English and as an English Audiobook as well)
3) What fictional character in a book are you secretly in love with?
secretly? You must be joking!
Severus Snape of course!
4) What book have you read more than any other?
I have no clue.....
5) What was your favourite book when you were 10-years-old?
The "Bille und Zottel" Series - I liked it so much that I got the whole series again last year
6) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
7) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
The Women of the Otherworld Series
(Well, most of the series)
8) If you could tell everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
Not every book is for everyone.
9) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Bloody "Ulysses" of course
10) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Keep them all away from me please! (Together with all other so called "classic must reads")
11) Shakespeare, Milton or Chaucer?
Chaucer
12) Austen Or Eliot?
Neither
13) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
"Classic must reads"
14) What is your favourite novel?
No chance I can choose just one
15) Play?
Der Besuch der alten Dame
16) Poem?
Poems are for writing, not for reading
17) Essay?
WTF?!?.
18) Short story?
I don't read a lot of them, they to short for my liking
19) Non-fiction?
I like non-fiction, but not so much that I would claim to like one more then another
20) Graphic novel?
Again, while I read them, I would not choose one over the other
21) Memoir?
That book from that French girl who was in a malysian Prison in the 80ies
22) History?
Das Lächeln der Fortuna - Rebecca Gable
23) Mystery or noir?
I prefer thrillers
24) Science fiction?
I prefer Fantasy
SF has to many star-ships for my like
25) Who is your favorite writer?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
26) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Paolo Catelo
27) What are you reading right now?
Jack Kilborn - Afraid
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Jim Butcher - Proven Guilty
II.
01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
I have no problems eating whole meals while reading
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I only write in books if it is a workbook
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
All of the above, sometimes at the same time
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
Both
05. Hard copy or audiobooks?
both, ebooks too!
06. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point?
Any point
07. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence?
I try to get the sentence! Unless it is a word that comes up again and again and again
08. What are you currently reading?
See above.
09. What is the last book you bought?
Volumes 7-10 in the Harry Dresden Series
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
Usually around 10
11. Do you like re-reading books?
Yes, but there is so much out there that I have not read yet....