30 Day Book Challenge - Day 8, 9 & 10
Okay so I've got a bit behind in this 30 day book challenge so now I have to catch up with the last few days questions. Here we go:
Day 8: Some firsts: First book you remember loving/being obsessed with. First book that made you cry. First book you gave to someone else as a gift.
I can't remember exactly the first book I remember loving, but I think it must have been the Dragonlance series. I remember getting tons of those books out of the library when I was younger!
I also can't remember the first book that made me cry. Most likely it would have been something like Charlotte's Web. Who wouldn't cry at Charlotte's Web?!
And the first book I gave someone as a gift. Hmmm. I can't recall exactly. I remember giving a friend a book for a birthday years ago when I was a kid, but I can't remember what it was exactly. Either a Babysitters Club book (remember I mentioned previously I used to read those books when I was a pre-teen/kid?) or maybe an R.L. Stine's Goosebumps book.
Day 9 question:
Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
I don't think I want to answer this question - because if I do, that will spoil most likely a major plot point in any story that I would mention the saddest/best death. I can answer both the saddest and best character death, but I don't think it's fair that I do because deaths in books are mostly important parts of the stories.
And the question for today:
Day 10. The last book you acquired, and how (begged, bought, borrowed?)
The last physical book I bought was Write For Japan, the anthology of short stories I have a story in, to help raise money for Japan earthquake/tsunami relief.
The last physical book I borrowed was from work - we have a little borrowing library where people can put their old books they're finished with/don't want so that others can read them - The Bourne Deception that I just picked up today (haven't started reading it yet though). But it sounds good. Never read any of the other Bourne series books, but the few movies of the series i've seen have been good (not that that has any bearing really on if the books are good, but they must be somewhat because otherwise there wouldn't be movies made from them!).
The last non-physical (i.e. E) book that I got was the first of Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series 'Soulless'. A snippet from Publishers Weekly review on Amazon.com :
"Carriger debuts brilliantly with a blend of Victorian romance, screwball comedy of manners and alternate history. Prickly, stubborn 25-year-old bluestocking Alexia Tarabotti is patently unmarriageable, and not just because she's large-nosed and swarthy. She's also soulless, an oddity and a secret even in a 19th-century London that mostly accepts and integrates werewolf packs, vampire hives and ghosts."
I haven't yet started to read it (because i'm currently reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman) but I can't wait because it seems like rollicking good fun!
Day 8: Some firsts: First book you remember loving/being obsessed with. First book that made you cry. First book you gave to someone else as a gift.
I can't remember exactly the first book I remember loving, but I think it must have been the Dragonlance series. I remember getting tons of those books out of the library when I was younger!
I also can't remember the first book that made me cry. Most likely it would have been something like Charlotte's Web. Who wouldn't cry at Charlotte's Web?!
And the first book I gave someone as a gift. Hmmm. I can't recall exactly. I remember giving a friend a book for a birthday years ago when I was a kid, but I can't remember what it was exactly. Either a Babysitters Club book (remember I mentioned previously I used to read those books when I was a pre-teen/kid?) or maybe an R.L. Stine's Goosebumps book.
Day 9 question:
Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
I don't think I want to answer this question - because if I do, that will spoil most likely a major plot point in any story that I would mention the saddest/best death. I can answer both the saddest and best character death, but I don't think it's fair that I do because deaths in books are mostly important parts of the stories.
And the question for today:
Day 10. The last book you acquired, and how (begged, bought, borrowed?)
The last physical book I bought was Write For Japan, the anthology of short stories I have a story in, to help raise money for Japan earthquake/tsunami relief.
The last physical book I borrowed was from work - we have a little borrowing library where people can put their old books they're finished with/don't want so that others can read them - The Bourne Deception that I just picked up today (haven't started reading it yet though). But it sounds good. Never read any of the other Bourne series books, but the few movies of the series i've seen have been good (not that that has any bearing really on if the books are good, but they must be somewhat because otherwise there wouldn't be movies made from them!).
The last non-physical (i.e. E) book that I got was the first of Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series 'Soulless'. A snippet from Publishers Weekly review on Amazon.com :
"Carriger debuts brilliantly with a blend of Victorian romance, screwball comedy of manners and alternate history. Prickly, stubborn 25-year-old bluestocking Alexia Tarabotti is patently unmarriageable, and not just because she's large-nosed and swarthy. She's also soulless, an oddity and a secret even in a 19th-century London that mostly accepts and integrates werewolf packs, vampire hives and ghosts."
I haven't yet started to read it (because i'm currently reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman) but I can't wait because it seems like rollicking good fun!
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