oh god I actually have time to do a meme!
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gwynnegaWhat with graduating and everything, I forgot to mention that a couple of my poems have just been published in the new online issue of Antimuse: Days of Wine and Roses and Blood and Chocolate Ghazal.
And here's that book meme everyone was doing while I was insanely busy with school!
1. I'm not a fast reader, though sometimes I wish I were.
2. As a kid I was a huge fan of the Oz books. A woman who lived two doors down from me had the Ruth Plumly Thomson ones, and she let me borrow them, to my voracious delight. (Her own kids weren't interested in them in the least.)
3. A bit later, I was crazy about Louisa May Alcott. I have beautiful old editions of An Old-Fashioned Girl and Eight Cousins. In my hardcover of Little Women, a number of the black and white illustrations have been painstakingly colored in with colored pencils by me, around age eight I think. (I was eight when I visited Alcott's house, and that really made me an Alcott fangirl.)
4. In the 1970s I owned some Planet of the Apes novelizations, as well as a Young Frankenstein novelization (which had racy - to pre-teen me - sex bits that I only half understood). I may still have the Escape From the Planet of the Apes paperback at my mom's house...
5. In my twenties I was a devoted fan of Marge Piercy, but after a few of her novels felt like they were going through the motions, I haven't been able to motivate myself to read her last couple of books. Falling out of love with a writer is a sad thing.
6. When I was a teenager, two of my favorite books were Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, though Emily had a slight edge over Charlotte.
7. When I went to UCLA, I used to read while walking across campus, walking to my parking lot, etc. I don't think I could do that now. I'm not sure how I managed to do it without running into people! Back then my nose was pretty much always in a book.
8. Among my literary loves when I was at UCLA: Borges, Anais Nin, Alice Walker, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Shakespeare.
9. I was a Plath freak when I was a senior in high school. Also, soon after, an Anne Sexton freak.
10. In my twenties, when I'd go to spend the weekend at my boyfriend's house, I'd bring a minimum of three books with me. Sometimes I'd bring half a dozen!
11. Far and away the favorite job I ever had was my part-time gig working at Bread & Roses Bookstore, a women's bookshop in Sherman Oaks. Of course I was practically paying them to work there, what with all the books I bought.
12. A lot of my books still live at my mom's house, though I haven't lived there since my early twenties. From time to time she suggests I take them away/sell them/etc., and from time to time I grab a handful and take them home with me.
13. Though I've gone through many periods of intense bookbuying, I've also been at times a heavy library user. At the moment I tend more towards checking books out of the library than buying - especially since I can order books from anywhere in the L.A. library system and have 'em shipped for free to my local branch!
14. For years I saw a shrink in Santa Monica, and I made full use of the wonderful two-storey library within walking distance of her office. After our visits, I would often go to Midnight Special Bookstore in the nearby Third Street Promenade - a terrific independent bookstore which is now sadly out of business.
15. The books I've bought most recently: Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts (well, I ordered it awhile ago from Amazon but it just arrived), Iceland by Jim Krusoe, Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett, and City of the Mind by Penelope Lively.
And here's that book meme everyone was doing while I was insanely busy with school!
1. I'm not a fast reader, though sometimes I wish I were.
2. As a kid I was a huge fan of the Oz books. A woman who lived two doors down from me had the Ruth Plumly Thomson ones, and she let me borrow them, to my voracious delight. (Her own kids weren't interested in them in the least.)
3. A bit later, I was crazy about Louisa May Alcott. I have beautiful old editions of An Old-Fashioned Girl and Eight Cousins. In my hardcover of Little Women, a number of the black and white illustrations have been painstakingly colored in with colored pencils by me, around age eight I think. (I was eight when I visited Alcott's house, and that really made me an Alcott fangirl.)
4. In the 1970s I owned some Planet of the Apes novelizations, as well as a Young Frankenstein novelization (which had racy - to pre-teen me - sex bits that I only half understood). I may still have the Escape From the Planet of the Apes paperback at my mom's house...
5. In my twenties I was a devoted fan of Marge Piercy, but after a few of her novels felt like they were going through the motions, I haven't been able to motivate myself to read her last couple of books. Falling out of love with a writer is a sad thing.
6. When I was a teenager, two of my favorite books were Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, though Emily had a slight edge over Charlotte.
7. When I went to UCLA, I used to read while walking across campus, walking to my parking lot, etc. I don't think I could do that now. I'm not sure how I managed to do it without running into people! Back then my nose was pretty much always in a book.
8. Among my literary loves when I was at UCLA: Borges, Anais Nin, Alice Walker, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Shakespeare.
9. I was a Plath freak when I was a senior in high school. Also, soon after, an Anne Sexton freak.
10. In my twenties, when I'd go to spend the weekend at my boyfriend's house, I'd bring a minimum of three books with me. Sometimes I'd bring half a dozen!
11. Far and away the favorite job I ever had was my part-time gig working at Bread & Roses Bookstore, a women's bookshop in Sherman Oaks. Of course I was practically paying them to work there, what with all the books I bought.
12. A lot of my books still live at my mom's house, though I haven't lived there since my early twenties. From time to time she suggests I take them away/sell them/etc., and from time to time I grab a handful and take them home with me.
13. Though I've gone through many periods of intense bookbuying, I've also been at times a heavy library user. At the moment I tend more towards checking books out of the library than buying - especially since I can order books from anywhere in the L.A. library system and have 'em shipped for free to my local branch!
14. For years I saw a shrink in Santa Monica, and I made full use of the wonderful two-storey library within walking distance of her office. After our visits, I would often go to Midnight Special Bookstore in the nearby Third Street Promenade - a terrific independent bookstore which is now sadly out of business.
15. The books I've bought most recently: Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts (well, I ordered it awhile ago from Amazon but it just arrived), Iceland by Jim Krusoe, Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett, and City of the Mind by Penelope Lively.
