Book meme!
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The book I am reading: I am between books right at this second, but as soon as I finish posting this and put some shoes on, I will be off to buy Seanan McGuire's Late Eclipses and Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear. I still need to reread The Name of the Wind, but I just read the first three Toby books in the last week or so, so I am all set for Late Eclipses. I expect to finish it before I go to sleep tonight. Maybe THIS is the book where Toby finally makes out with Tybalt and/or the Luidaeg! Maybe this is the book where the pronunciation key finally makes some kind of sense! ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.
The book I am writing: Hey, yes. That book. I have about 28,000 words of gay Catholic vampire teen romance thing, which is about 5,000 more words than I had a week ago, so after a long hiatus this fall and winter we're back to chugging along. (While also chugging along on fic! I have developed a custody-sharing arrangement for my brain that seems to work, at least in these first two weeks. Fingers crossed for the future.)
The book I love most: With the caveat that I am pretty sure this question is mean or meaningless or both (one book? one book?) I'll give my traditional default answer, which is probably the book I have read the most times in my life, and certainly deeply and dearly beloved: Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian.
The last book I received as a gift:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
helaaspindakaas gave me The Psychology of Happiness: A Good Human Life for Christmas (from my wish list, not because he thought I especially needed to be more psychologically happy, as far as I know). I really liked it, although there was considerably more Aristotle than I was expecting--especially weird after reading Mary Renault's Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy not long before, both of which featured Aristotle as a character. *g*
The last book I gave as a gift: Do magazines count? I gaveiulia a copy of People for her birthday. Otherwise, I gave helaaspindakaas a Carl Sagan variety pack for Christmas--The Demon-Haunted World, Cosmos, and ... something else that I don't remember off the top of my head. I think the recent book-gift I was most excited about (my and H's mutual crush on Carl Sagan notwithstanding) was finally being able to give my nephew the first Owly book for Christmas. I had only been waiting since 2007 for him to be old enough. :)
The nearest book on my desk: Assuming we mean my coffee table, which is my desk-like center of operations at home, it's The Stepsister Scheme byjimhines, waiting on the top of my littlest TBR stack. Iulia assures me I will love these books, and Jim is my favorite pro author for non-failiness and general awesomeness in the SF/F blogosphere, so I am looking forward to reading this whole series in time to catch the fourth one when it comes out in the summer.
toftThe book I am reading: I am between books right at this second, but as soon as I finish posting this and put some shoes on, I will be off to buy Seanan McGuire's Late Eclipses and Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear. I still need to reread The Name of the Wind, but I just read the first three Toby books in the last week or so, so I am all set for Late Eclipses. I expect to finish it before I go to sleep tonight. Maybe THIS is the book where Toby finally makes out with Tybalt and/or the Luidaeg! Maybe this is the book where the pronunciation key finally makes some kind of sense! ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.
The book I am writing: Hey, yes. That book. I have about 28,000 words of gay Catholic vampire teen romance thing, which is about 5,000 more words than I had a week ago, so after a long hiatus this fall and winter we're back to chugging along. (While also chugging along on fic! I have developed a custody-sharing arrangement for my brain that seems to work, at least in these first two weeks. Fingers crossed for the future.)
The book I love most: With the caveat that I am pretty sure this question is mean or meaningless or both (one book? one book?) I'll give my traditional default answer, which is probably the book I have read the most times in my life, and certainly deeply and dearly beloved: Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian.
The last book I received as a gift:
helaaspindakaas gave me The Psychology of Happiness: A Good Human Life for Christmas (from my wish list, not because he thought I especially needed to be more psychologically happy, as far as I know). I really liked it, although there was considerably more Aristotle than I was expecting--especially weird after reading Mary Renault's Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy not long before, both of which featured Aristotle as a character. *g*The last book I gave as a gift: Do magazines count? I gave
iulia a copy of People for her birthday. Otherwise, I gave helaaspindakaas a Carl Sagan variety pack for Christmas--The Demon-Haunted World, Cosmos, and ... something else that I don't remember off the top of my head. I think the recent book-gift I was most excited about (my and H's mutual crush on Carl Sagan notwithstanding) was finally being able to give my nephew the first Owly book for Christmas. I had only been waiting since 2007 for him to be old enough. :)The nearest book on my desk: Assuming we mean my coffee table, which is my desk-like center of operations at home, it's The Stepsister Scheme by
jimhines, waiting on the top of my littlest TBR stack. Iulia assures me I will love these books, and Jim is my favorite pro author for non-failiness and general awesomeness in the SF/F blogosphere, so I am looking forward to reading this whole series in time to catch the fourth one when it comes out in the summer.