Jun. 3rd, 2005 08:43 pm
i like memes
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toastykitten1. Your favorite *non-fiction* book
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston. I read this before I was old enough to realize that most Asian American novels were rehashes of the same issues, but every time I open this book up I fall in love. This was one of the first books where I realized how much power Kingston concentrated in her deliberate details, how much she thought about the same things I did, and how much interesting material she wrangles from the ordinary details of living.
2. Your favorite children's book (from the age when you were being read to, or just beginning to read)
No one ever read to me. My sisters and I were the ones who helped my parents learn English, and that was from the citizenship handbook. My favorite children's book was Matilda, by Roald Dahl. I apparently like violent revenge fantasies. Also, did you know that Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, wrote porn? It's true - look up Switch Bitch and My Uncle Oswald on Amazon. I haven't read them, but apparently there's a bit of S&M in them.
3. Your favorite book as a young adult (define "young adult" as you will)
Er, I think by the time I was a young adult I was reading adult novels. But Francesca Lia Block held this weird fascination for me. Also, any Christopher Pike novel. I reread some of his stuff a few months ago; I wonder what he was taking.
4. Your favorite fantasy author
Hmm...I haven't read fantasy in a long time. Tolkien? C.S. Lewis, even though he apparently hates hippies?
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston. I read this before I was old enough to realize that most Asian American novels were rehashes of the same issues, but every time I open this book up I fall in love. This was one of the first books where I realized how much power Kingston concentrated in her deliberate details, how much she thought about the same things I did, and how much interesting material she wrangles from the ordinary details of living.
2. Your favorite children's book (from the age when you were being read to, or just beginning to read)
No one ever read to me. My sisters and I were the ones who helped my parents learn English, and that was from the citizenship handbook. My favorite children's book was Matilda, by Roald Dahl. I apparently like violent revenge fantasies. Also, did you know that Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, wrote porn? It's true - look up Switch Bitch and My Uncle Oswald on Amazon. I haven't read them, but apparently there's a bit of S&M in them.
3. Your favorite book as a young adult (define "young adult" as you will)
Er, I think by the time I was a young adult I was reading adult novels. But Francesca Lia Block held this weird fascination for me. Also, any Christopher Pike novel. I reread some of his stuff a few months ago; I wonder what he was taking.
4. Your favorite fantasy author
Hmm...I haven't read fantasy in a long time. Tolkien? C.S. Lewis, even though he apparently hates hippies?
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