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Book meme: Day 06
Jul. 26th, 2010 04:10 pmLast night I watched an episode of Leverage in which Jonathan Kent from Smallville beat up Jo Harvelle from Supernatural, and then Lindsey McDonald from Angel saved them. It was... weird.
Day 06 - Favorite book of your favorite series OR your favorite book of all time
As you might have noticed, I am not the sort of person who can pick a favorite $X of all time. Like, I don't have a favorite food. I don't have a favorite movie. I don't have a favorite drink (you're going to make me decide between champagne, coffee, and Diet Coke?! Cruel!). I do have a favorite piece of clothing, but I almost never wear that piece of clothing, so I'm not sure that it really counts.
If you ask me about my favorite book, I can easily reel off five or six that I love for different reasons -- usually for the stories they tell. If I like a book's story and characters and most of the prose, I can ignore the clumsy bits of the writing that almost all books have. No book is ever going to be totally perfect in every single way (as an editor, that was a really tough thing for me to learn to accept).
This means that I don't have a favorite book of all time. There is no one book I can point to and say, "This is the most amazing book I've ever read!" and have that be the end of the conversation. There are a lot of books that have changed my life -- some for the better and some for the worse. Some of them I even acquired and edited myself.
The closest I come to a favorite book of all time are the books I read as a disaffected, lonely kid that I can still go back and enjoy today. There's The Girl With the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
, The Guardian Circle by Margaret Buffie
, the Bruno and Boots books by Gordon Korman
, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
... and, of course, the book I probably should not have read at age nine, but I'm glad I did: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Now you! Is it easier for you to pick a "favorite book of all time" or the like? How ever do you manage? Feel free, as always, to post in the comments, or to link to a post at your own blog.
( Other days of the book meme )
Day 06 - Favorite book of your favorite series OR your favorite book of all time
As you might have noticed, I am not the sort of person who can pick a favorite $X of all time. Like, I don't have a favorite food. I don't have a favorite movie. I don't have a favorite drink (you're going to make me decide between champagne, coffee, and Diet Coke?! Cruel!). I do have a favorite piece of clothing, but I almost never wear that piece of clothing, so I'm not sure that it really counts.
If you ask me about my favorite book, I can easily reel off five or six that I love for different reasons -- usually for the stories they tell. If I like a book's story and characters and most of the prose, I can ignore the clumsy bits of the writing that almost all books have. No book is ever going to be totally perfect in every single way (as an editor, that was a really tough thing for me to learn to accept).
This means that I don't have a favorite book of all time. There is no one book I can point to and say, "This is the most amazing book I've ever read!" and have that be the end of the conversation. There are a lot of books that have changed my life -- some for the better and some for the worse. Some of them I even acquired and edited myself.
The closest I come to a favorite book of all time are the books I read as a disaffected, lonely kid that I can still go back and enjoy today. There's The Girl With the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
, The Guardian Circle by Margaret Buffie, the Bruno and Boots books by Gordon Korman, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg... and, of course, the book I probably should not have read at age nine, but I'm glad I did: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodNow you! Is it easier for you to pick a "favorite book of all time" or the like? How ever do you manage? Feel free, as always, to post in the comments, or to link to a post at your own blog.
( Other days of the book meme )
