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Book meme: Day 24!
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Day 24 - Best quote from a novel
"He was all for fusion or even sunshine, whatever warmed the heart." --Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth
Here's a story about this quote. I loved it from the first moment I read it, and when in my 20s, I went often to bars that had writing on their bathroom walls -- usually stupid crap like, "ALISA LOVES GREG" or whatever. So, for many years, I wrote that quote on the walls of bar bathrooms.
Last year I was trying to look it up on the internet to find out what the proper punctuation of it was (because, honestly, the above punctuation is from the book, but were I the author or copyeditor or editor, I'd've punctuated that sentence much differently; that's just me, though). What I found was a BBS for finding lost poetry quotations where someone had asked what poem that quote was from.
I made a new "Found!" post, explaining that while Candas Jane Dorsey is indeed a poet, this particular quote is from a novel. I also private-messaged the original poster, just in case zie hadn't seen the new post. When zie PM'd me back, I ended up asking where zie'd seen the quote.
A friend of zie's found it on a bathroom wall in New York City and wrote it down, thinking zie would like it.
Zie added that since then, zie'd started writing lines from poetry on bathroom walls, too.
!!!!!!!!
Here is a picture of me writing that quote on the wall of one of the bathrooms at my favorite bar, Angels & Kings, in January 2008.
Now you: what's your favorite quote from a novel? Why?
( Other days of the book meme )
Day 24 - Best quote from a novel
"He was all for fusion or even sunshine, whatever warmed the heart." --Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth
Here's a story about this quote. I loved it from the first moment I read it, and when in my 20s, I went often to bars that had writing on their bathroom walls -- usually stupid crap like, "ALISA LOVES GREG" or whatever. So, for many years, I wrote that quote on the walls of bar bathrooms.
Last year I was trying to look it up on the internet to find out what the proper punctuation of it was (because, honestly, the above punctuation is from the book, but were I the author or copyeditor or editor, I'd've punctuated that sentence much differently; that's just me, though). What I found was a BBS for finding lost poetry quotations where someone had asked what poem that quote was from.
I made a new "Found!" post, explaining that while Candas Jane Dorsey is indeed a poet, this particular quote is from a novel. I also private-messaged the original poster, just in case zie hadn't seen the new post. When zie PM'd me back, I ended up asking where zie'd seen the quote.
A friend of zie's found it on a bathroom wall in New York City and wrote it down, thinking zie would like it.
Zie added that since then, zie'd started writing lines from poetry on bathroom walls, too.
!!!!!!!!
Here is a picture of me writing that quote on the wall of one of the bathrooms at my favorite bar, Angels & Kings, in January 2008.
Now you: what's your favorite quote from a novel? Why?
( Other days of the book meme )
) definitely altered the way I read the stories, although I'm not sure I can put my finger on exactly how. That's my own personal perspective, though, and I know a lot of people who loved Tiptree before her "secret identity" came out.
, which is a good intro to her most famous work.
is worthwhile and intense, and 
is also great. 
. It was originally published by Tor, so I read it when it was in proofs, and then bought copies for everyone I knew who'd love it (which was a bunch of people!). The stories are all really well written. I think most of them were originally published elsewhere, and then collected with one or two original stories for the book. Right now it's out of print, but Small Beer Press is releasing a new edition in October. (Or 
, Nancy Drew, 
, and, of course, the Anne books. I've read all of the books in those series multiple times -- way more than five.
, 
, 
, and, of course, the first Nora Roberts book I ever read: 
. 
, which I have read a bunch of times. And, of course, one of my favorite books when I was a teenager obsessed with Troi and Riker: 
! I keep meaning to go back and reread it, but I'm pretty dubious that it has stood the test of time (unlike Federation, which I just reread a few years ago and loved just as much).
, which I loved, and read several times. Another book (series!) I got from my mother when I was eight or nine was the Mrs. Pollifax series, about a gardening grandmother who gets a job working for the C.I.A., starting with 
. Oh, how I loved Mrs. Pollifax!
. (Which is not to say that it is not flawed -- for some people those flaws would be unforgivable, but not me. Not this time.)
, and 
, and 
, and 
, and 
. And who can forget the totally epic 
? Not me!
-- and, yeah, it's a really ridiculous book on a lot of levels. But I read it when I was seventeen (honestly, I would've sworn it came out much much earlier -- like, 1996 -- but Amazon says September 1997), and it was the first time I'd ever read a book -- much less a book geared toward adults -- in which the protagonist was anorexic. Deep, instant kinship. That was actually the first Linda Howard single title (for you non-romance people, a "single title" in romance is a book that is not published in a Harlequin series -- which refers not to a series of books, but to Harlequin's imprints, like Nocturne, Intrigue, or Superromance) I ever read, and it started my obsession with Linda Howard. 
. I have probably read the first four Anne books more than any other books I own. Each. Anne of Green Gables is a total comfort book for me. Anne of Avonlea is hilarious. Anne of the Island is captivating. And Anne of Windy Poplars is another comfort book for me. I've actually read it more than the others -- for a while, I carried it around with me so I could read it whenever I wanted, and then for a long time I kept it in the bathroom. 
, which is awesome.
-- I think if it had been written nowadays, it would probably spin off into a series of psychic crime-solving novels! I've also always wanted to know what happened after 
-- not from the human perspective, but from the alien perspective!
