that book meme, 11-14
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orangerful11: What book fandom do you affiliate yourself with the most?
I'm not sure I've ever been involved in a book fandom...though I do fangirl over a lot of books, it is usually just me telling people at the library why they should pick up that book to read LOL.
But if I had to go by random stuff around my house and on my shelves, I would have to say 'Hitchhiker's Guide'. I have several editions of the books, I have the t-shirt, etc. :)
12: Tell one book story or memory (what you were wearing when you were reading something, someone saw you cry in public, you threw a book across the room and broke a window, etc.)
A few years back, I decided to pick up 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry. I had been forced to read this book in 6th grade and I didn't like it at all. But I wanted to go back because so many people referred to it as a modern classic and talked about how it was near and dear to their hearts.
So, I checked it out and I fell in love with it (12 year old me was far too self-involved to understand the message, plus I always failed at reading assigned books).
ANYWAY, I was carrying it around with me to read everywhere I went and I had to stop at Chik-Fil-A for lunch on my way to a meeting. I was reading the book while eating my sandwich and one of the employees walked by. He did a double take at the cover, stopped and said "OMG THAT IS MY FAVORITE BOOK!! IT IS SO GOOD!" and I told him I was enjoyed it and we had this nice little moment of "the power of books" and I will always remember it. <3
13: What character would be your best friend in real life?
I think Schmendrick the Magician and I would get along well LOL. We both try our best to be good friends, even if we don't always do it perfectly.
14: Favorite item of book merch
'Hitchhiker's Guide' t-shirt my Mom bought me a few years ago.
I also have a Mockingjay pinthat I bought BEFORE IT WAS COOL #hipsterlibrarian. Seriously, Hot Topic was selling those things before the movie was even a thing.
Also, I have a copy of 'The Last Unicorn' that Peter Beagle autographed, then wrote a few pages of the Schmendrick story in, and this his publisher did a Unicorn doodle in the inside flap. (too bad they had a falling out recently, sorta taints the whole thing but oh well).
In non-meme news, today was our big kick off event at the library for Summer Reading! It was insanely hot outside and inside but we had fun. I'm sure we had at least 200 kids. I was in charge of the bowling station (this year's theme is sports so we had a little carnival games set up in our meeting room). The kids seem to really like it, many of them played over and over. And I had LOTS of smiling faces greet me, recognizing me from the school visits I did last week. Always nice to see them and I'm always impressed that they remember me.
I kinda want to sign up for this round of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
character20n20 but I'm not sure who I want to icon. Maybe I could do Rey...I need some TFA icons. OR I could do Han Solo and then I'd have 4 movies to pull from, though there are lots of other movies I love that I could pick from...thoughts?
And now I will end the post with a photo of my E.T. shelf - drunk E.T. has joined the crew!
Next question on the book meme is for book shelfies so that will get it's very own entry...you will be amazed by how few books I have LOL.
I'm not sure I've ever been involved in a book fandom...though I do fangirl over a lot of books, it is usually just me telling people at the library why they should pick up that book to read LOL.
But if I had to go by random stuff around my house and on my shelves, I would have to say 'Hitchhiker's Guide'. I have several editions of the books, I have the t-shirt, etc. :)
12: Tell one book story or memory (what you were wearing when you were reading something, someone saw you cry in public, you threw a book across the room and broke a window, etc.)
A few years back, I decided to pick up 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry. I had been forced to read this book in 6th grade and I didn't like it at all. But I wanted to go back because so many people referred to it as a modern classic and talked about how it was near and dear to their hearts.
So, I checked it out and I fell in love with it (12 year old me was far too self-involved to understand the message, plus I always failed at reading assigned books).
ANYWAY, I was carrying it around with me to read everywhere I went and I had to stop at Chik-Fil-A for lunch on my way to a meeting. I was reading the book while eating my sandwich and one of the employees walked by. He did a double take at the cover, stopped and said "OMG THAT IS MY FAVORITE BOOK!! IT IS SO GOOD!" and I told him I was enjoyed it and we had this nice little moment of "the power of books" and I will always remember it. <3
13: What character would be your best friend in real life?
I think Schmendrick the Magician and I would get along well LOL. We both try our best to be good friends, even if we don't always do it perfectly.
14: Favorite item of book merch
'Hitchhiker's Guide' t-shirt my Mom bought me a few years ago.
I also have a Mockingjay pin
Also, I have a copy of 'The Last Unicorn' that Peter Beagle autographed, then wrote a few pages of the Schmendrick story in, and this his publisher did a Unicorn doodle in the inside flap. (too bad they had a falling out recently, sorta taints the whole thing but oh well).
In non-meme news, today was our big kick off event at the library for Summer Reading! It was insanely hot outside and inside but we had fun. I'm sure we had at least 200 kids. I was in charge of the bowling station (this year's theme is sports so we had a little carnival games set up in our meeting room). The kids seem to really like it, many of them played over and over. And I had LOTS of smiling faces greet me, recognizing me from the school visits I did last week. Always nice to see them and I'm always impressed that they remember me.
I kinda want to sign up for this round of
character20n20 but I'm not sure who I want to icon. Maybe I could do Rey...I need some TFA icons. OR I could do Han Solo and then I'd have 4 movies to pull from, though there are lots of other movies I love that I could pick from...thoughts? And now I will end the post with a photo of my E.T. shelf - drunk E.T. has joined the crew!
Next question on the book meme is for book shelfies so that will get it's very own entry...you will be amazed by how few books I have LOL.
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Date: 2016-06-22 03:18 am (UTC)I love getting stopped by someone to talk about the book that I'm reading. And people say that no one reads anymore! XD
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Date: 2016-06-22 04:46 am (UTC)Love your answers!! And your shelf, lol!
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Date: 2016-06-22 05:03 am (UTC)The copy of The Last Unicorn sounds marvelous! (what a pity that it's become somewhat 'tainted', as you say; I hadn't realized there'd been a falling out)
"OMG THAT IS MY FAVORITE BOOK!! IT IS SO GOOD!" and I told him I was enjoyed it and we had this nice little moment of "the power of books" and I will always remember it.
I love moments like this! I've had several around Lord of the Rings, and probably a couple other book, too.
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Date: 2016-06-22 05:51 am (UTC)I love your shelf!
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Date: 2016-06-22 06:43 am (UTC)Your shelf looks great *^^*
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Date: 2016-06-22 11:51 am (UTC)I enjoyed your answers and I'm a bit jealous of your book merch.
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Date: 2016-06-22 06:33 pm (UTC)Stacey
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Date: 2016-06-22 07:59 pm (UTC)Yay to excited summer readers!
Your ET shelves are awesome.
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Date: 2016-06-23 12:20 am (UTC)Sometimes I think students are given things to read when they aren't old enough to really appreciate them. I realized this when one of my college professors talked about a fantastic performance of "Death of a Salesman" he'd seen and he said, "You really need to be at least in your 30s to fully appreciate it. I'd read it my senior year in high school and totally didn't get it about the main character.
You do have quite the ET collection!
Glad you enjoyed Summer Reading kickoff--it's usually pure chaos but always great to have the kids recognize you and see them having fun!
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Date: 2016-06-23 02:56 am (UTC)OMG, your ET shelf is too cute for words!!!
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Date: 2016-06-23 03:33 am (UTC)Gonna post some more shelfies now!
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