I was tagged by Melody at Melody's Reading Corner for this meme. But this original post meme came from Eva
Which book do you irrationally cringe away from
reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?
I This is sure a tough question.....but I think I will go with Dorthy Dunnett. I tried to read the first book but the writing was too hard for me to understand what going on or what the hero is up to. It written sorta like lyrical and witty. Friends tell me that if I've kept reading and get into the next installment of the book, than I would have understand the hero much more. And despite the good positive of the book (okay maybe the reviews have not been all positive) I didn't continue reading the book. I tell myself that maybe in due time, I will retry it again and hope that this time my feeling of the book will change.
If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be?
Seriously this is hard question. It so hard to just pick three, because anyone who know me would know that I don't just stick with just only few people. Even though the question call for it *grin*. I think I'll pick: Sam Starret (Troubleshooter series), one of Kathryn Shay's fireman character (Hidden Coves trilogy) and Max (Troubleshooter series). I'm always amaze at the generous donations from people who willing to help to those whose are having trouble with life and is in time of need. If I could set up an charity events for donations of anything that I think is important for me to fight for (Cancers, homeless, children in foster home, military, books..etc) than I will set up an charity and invited the three men I mention above to help out. I think the three characters might have encounter these events. It be good way for them to get to know each other (fireman, cop and military) and for me to have a chance to thanks them in between......okay so maybe it kinda weird but I want the three characters to mingle hehehe.
(Borrowing shamelessly from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde): you are told you can’t die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for awhile, eventually you realise it’s past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave?
I hate to say it because I do like this author, but I'm going to go with Dark Seduction by Brenda Joyce, although I do appreciate the hard work she had done to write it. I do like her older books and think people should try those first instead :) She write great in those IMO.
Come on, we’ve all been there. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you’ve read, when in fact you’ve been nowhere near it?
I'm sure there are books that I have done this to. But it not a whole lot though. If I've been nowhere near it, it only because I didn't have the chance to read it yet. Or I thought I've read it and discover later that I didn't.
As an addition to the last question, has there been a book that you really thought you had read, only to realise when you read a review about it/go to 'reread' it that you haven't? Which book?
See answer above, from the last question for this answers.
You’re interviewing for the post of Official Book Advisor to some VIP (who’s not a big reader). What’s the first book you’d recommend and why? (If you feel like you’d have to know the person, go ahead and personalise the VIP).
The Outlander series. When I read the books, I felt like I was a little girl sitting down on the floor listening to Diana Gabaldon tell me the most wonderful story in history of all times. You learn of the history of the war, about the fictional characters seeing AMERICA for the first time and the many other places they go to. And all the angst, tough and emotional times they have gone through the books. You learn about the brave Jamie Frasier who is heroism in his times and sweet as well. He is fighter, a father a hero who love his family...and his actions, words surely show :) Lots of action with deep writing, loves and heartbreak tales.
A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with?
I think I would want to learn German, French or Spanish. My reason is because I have a aunt who family speak German. And although I speak Vietnamese, I want to be able to communicate in German with my cousins whose also speak both Vietnamese and German. I chose French because I took French class in high school and even though I didn't do well on it, I truly want to learn it. And Spanish because I have a friends who speak Spanish and I want to be able to communicate with them.
A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread once a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick?
Hmmm...there a lot of books I've reread over the years. Too many to counts! Yes I'm reread-er *grin*. But if I have to chose one to reread once a year for rest of my life, than I will chose...The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I bet some of you are surprise that I didn't chose one of Nora Roberts books *grin*. In that case I would have, but there so many books of her to chose from :)
I know that the book blogging community, and its various challenges, have pushed my reading borders. What’s one bookish thing you ‘discovered’ from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)?
Book blogs have certainly helped me in exploring more books the last two years I've been blogging. I've discover new to me authors this way, and it made me appreciate the genres and authors a lot more. It's also help me to discover myself as well. And I've made good friends from blog land by reading their book reviews(as well as fun stuff).
That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she’s granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leatherbound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favourite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free.
Ever seen the movie "Beauty and the Beast"? I love Belle library. OMG the huge and tall bookshelves on every wall of the room, from the top ceiling to the bottom floor. And with ladder to climb up to reach the top. The bookshelves will have most of my favorite genres in hardcover with authors inscribed in them. There will be a desk, leather chair and pictures of my family. And my laptop. By the window it will have purple pattern certain with a sofa and lamp next to it. And picture frames of my family on the top wall, above the sofa. And TBR pile that are stacked next to the sofa. The wall of the room will be painted brown with hinted of light purple decoration.
As per the rules, I have to tag 4 people for this meme so here they are:
Marg at Reading Adventures
Kat at Strangely Out of Place
Cmate at Mini Bites
Marianne at Reading, Writing & Stuff That Makes Me Crazy
And, for extra credit, if you leave a comment letting Eva know you've done the meme with a link to the post, she will give you some link love via a big list of who's participated. Additionally, if you link back to her original post, she will enter you in a drawing to win The House at Riverton. If you're an American, this is especially exciting since it isn't going to published until April. ;) To be in the drawing, you must have posted the meme (and commented) by February 5th, which is when she is holding the drawing.
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Showing posts with label Fun Games: Meme. Show all posts
Monday, January 28, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
12345 Meme
I got this from Marianne
1. Name one thing you do everyday.
A. Check Emails *grin*
2. Name two things you wish you could learn.
A. Be a better at blogging (book reviews, updating them quicker)
B. sign languages
3. Name three things that remind you of your childhood.
A. My favorite childhood books (Ramona series, Harold and Purple Crayon, The Fudge books, Anne of the Green Gable..etc)
B. The 80's days
C. "Girls just Want to Have Fun" movie
4. Name four things you love to eat but rarely do.
A. Steak : This is because mom and little brother get gout.
B. Fried fish : We only eat it on a Ash Day or occasionally when we feel like to eat it
C. Baskin Robin Ice Cream : Love their flavor and only buy it when I'm in mood for it. Normally I always buy the grocery store one.
D. Strawberries : But I'm allergic to it. It seem to give me pain on the side of mouth, where my cheek are.
5. Name five things/people that make you feel good.
A. Reading books (I'm avided reader)
B. TV (hey am addictive hehe)
C. Childhood best friend & niece Trish (when I hang out with them or talk about our problem)
D. Beverage: Coffee, Hot Chocolate, Sprite
E. Foods: Pasta, anything fries, chicken fingers (Raising Canes)
What to play? Just leave comments here to let me know, and than I'll check your blog :)
1. Name one thing you do everyday.
A. Check Emails *grin*
2. Name two things you wish you could learn.
A. Be a better at blogging (book reviews, updating them quicker)
B. sign languages
3. Name three things that remind you of your childhood.
A. My favorite childhood books (Ramona series, Harold and Purple Crayon, The Fudge books, Anne of the Green Gable..etc)
B. The 80's days
C. "Girls just Want to Have Fun" movie
4. Name four things you love to eat but rarely do.
A. Steak : This is because mom and little brother get gout.
B. Fried fish : We only eat it on a Ash Day or occasionally when we feel like to eat it
C. Baskin Robin Ice Cream : Love their flavor and only buy it when I'm in mood for it. Normally I always buy the grocery store one.
D. Strawberries : But I'm allergic to it. It seem to give me pain on the side of mouth, where my cheek are.
5. Name five things/people that make you feel good.
A. Reading books (I'm avided reader)
B. TV (hey am addictive hehe)
C. Childhood best friend & niece Trish (when I hang out with them or talk about our problem)
D. Beverage: Coffee, Hot Chocolate, Sprite
E. Foods: Pasta, anything fries, chicken fingers (Raising Canes)
What to play? Just leave comments here to let me know, and than I'll check your blog :)
Monday, October 22, 2007
Monday Morning Meme
I got tagged by Darla.......
The Alternate Name Meme.
1.YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
- Mini-Me Maxima
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)
- Chocolate Rocky Road Pecan Cookies
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
- J-Pha
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animals
- Purple dog
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
- Kim Saigon
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
- Pha Ju
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
- The deep blue Sprite
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Huy
9. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Calvin Klein peppermints
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names )
Thi Van
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Mrs. Black Baton Rouge
12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flowers
Christmas Tulips
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
- Cherry pantie
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Blue Berries Bagel Pine
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Scrapbook Reading Rain Tour
16. Your Porn Name: (First Pet + Name of street you grew up on)
Mini-Me Auburn
Well, that was silly and fun. I hope the world don't think I have gone mad *LOL*......Thanks to Darla for tagging me ;)
So now I'm tagging:
1. Alice of Hi, My Name is Alice
2. Cmate of Mini Bites
3. Kat of Strangely Out of Place
Melody is already tagged. Anyone else want to participate, may go ahead. Just make sure you comments here, to let me know and I come to your blog to check it out :)
The Alternate Name Meme.
1.YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
- Mini-Me Maxima
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)
- Chocolate Rocky Road Pecan Cookies
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
- J-Pha
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animals
- Purple dog
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
- Kim Saigon
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
- Pha Ju
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
- The deep blue Sprite
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Huy
9. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Calvin Klein peppermints
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names )
Thi Van
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Mrs. Black Baton Rouge
12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flowers
Christmas Tulips
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
- Cherry pantie
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Blue Berries Bagel Pine
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Scrapbook Reading Rain Tour
16. Your Porn Name: (First Pet + Name of street you grew up on)
Mini-Me Auburn
Well, that was silly and fun. I hope the world don't think I have gone mad *LOL*......Thanks to Darla for tagging me ;)
So now I'm tagging:
1. Alice of Hi, My Name is Alice
2. Cmate of Mini Bites
3. Kat of Strangely Out of Place
Melody is already tagged. Anyone else want to participate, may go ahead. Just make sure you comments here, to let me know and I come to your blog to check it out :)
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Monday Morning Meme
I got tagged by Darla, so here I go....
The Library Thing Meme
These are the top 106 books most often marked as 'unread' by LibraryThing's users. The rules: bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, strike through what you couldn't stand and underline those you have no intention of reading.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi: a Novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (74)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
*The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian: a Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
*Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (52)
**Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela's Ashes: a Memoir (51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49)
*Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake: a Novel (47)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46)
On the Road (46)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
*Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood: a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
- Okay this is less reading than I thought. But than that is the normal things for me, since I haven't read the most popular books...yet. The funny thing is, most of the books listed here are the one I have seen in movies screen first and haven't read the book, yet.
Beside Melody I'm not going to tag anyone, since most of the people I would have tag are already tagged. But anyone more than welcome to participate :) But please leave me a comment if you are interested in playing so I can come visit!
The Library Thing Meme
These are the top 106 books most often marked as 'unread' by LibraryThing's users. The rules: bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, strike through what you couldn't stand and underline those you have no intention of reading.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi: a Novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (74)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
*The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian: a Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
*Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (52)
**Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela's Ashes: a Memoir (51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49)
*Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake: a Novel (47)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46)
On the Road (46)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
*Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood: a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
- Okay this is less reading than I thought. But than that is the normal things for me, since I haven't read the most popular books...yet. The funny thing is, most of the books listed here are the one I have seen in movies screen first and haven't read the book, yet.
Beside Melody I'm not going to tag anyone, since most of the people I would have tag are already tagged. But anyone more than welcome to participate :) But please leave me a comment if you are interested in playing so I can come visit!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
My Desktop Free View : Meme
I was tagged by Alice of "Hello, My Name Is Alice" to do this fun meme.
- I know this desktop is not simple and original, but it does describe me the best. Because the background are pretty and represent "home" to me. Also I love to take pictures. These two pictures are my two nieces, my older sister and me :) Can you tell which one is moi? ;) :)
Here's how you play:
A. Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun. You can do a screen capture by going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key). Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V).If you wish, you can “edit” the image, before saving it.
B. Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of icons. Things like that.
C. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.
D. Add your name to this list of Free Viewers with a link pointing directly to your Desktop Free View post to promote it to succeeding participants.
I'm tagging the following bloggies friends:
Darla Nichtszusagen
Kat Strangely Out of Place
Angela Grey Day Knitting Play
I have 3 others friends but they are already tagged by someone else ;) And if anyone else want to participate, you're welcome to do it. And of course if not, than there no pressure, I promise :)
List of Free Viewers:
iRonnie - I Set No Corner
Thess - Thesserie
Rebecca - Skippy Heart
Knoizki - A Dialogue With K
Beng - Kauderwelch
Tina- My Good Finds
Rachel - Heart of Rachel
Alice - Hello, My Name Is Alice
Julia - Julia's Books Corner!
- I know this desktop is not simple and original, but it does describe me the best. Because the background are pretty and represent "home" to me. Also I love to take pictures. These two pictures are my two nieces, my older sister and me :) Can you tell which one is moi? ;) :)
Here's how you play:
A. Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun. You can do a screen capture by going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key). Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V).If you wish, you can “edit” the image, before saving it.
B. Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of icons. Things like that.
C. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.
D. Add your name to this list of Free Viewers with a link pointing directly to your Desktop Free View post to promote it to succeeding participants.
I'm tagging the following bloggies friends:
Darla Nichtszusagen
Kat Strangely Out of Place
Angela Grey Day Knitting Play
I have 3 others friends but they are already tagged by someone else ;) And if anyone else want to participate, you're welcome to do it. And of course if not, than there no pressure, I promise :)
List of Free Viewers:
iRonnie - I Set No Corner
Thess - Thesserie
Rebecca - Skippy Heart
Knoizki - A Dialogue With K
Beng - Kauderwelch
Tina- My Good Finds
Rachel - Heart of Rachel
Alice - Hello, My Name Is Alice
Julia - Julia's Books Corner!
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