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bookwormmeme

HEY ♥ So as most of you know already, I'm Annay, one of your moddydoddies. QNNG yosuke is the FAAAAAAAAAAR more adept one but between the two of us, we'll keep everyting in line. ANYWAY, to kind of ease ourselves into this whole thing, I think it'd be super to kind of get a feel for what we all like to read. So I've concocted a meme with this handy little form, which you can definitely fill out and...etc. etc. you get the point. All of the rules still apply so make sure you read them before doing anything nasty, otherwise we'll...get you. ...Despite the fact that we're not threatening at all.

<b>HI I'M...</b> what is your name, young padawan? <b>FAVORITE BOOK(S) |</b> list 'em here! <b>FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) |</b> list 'em here! <b>ETC. |</b> other related/unrelated things go here. 8)

OKAY, LET'S HAVE SOME FUN ♥

Oh, and a pimp code if you want!

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[strife]

HI I'M... Shannon
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami), Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami), Battle Royale (.... i have poor taste... )
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Haruki Murakami, David Sedaris
ETC. | Here is my shelfari which idk why I'm linking because I have a lot of embarrassing stuff I read in middle school on there!

[ex_operation970]

David Sedaris. o//////o

[theory]

I have to tell you sometime about how much I loved Kafka on the Shore (but only after I finish The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle first) ♥

do it like this, I'm pretty sure.

[theory]

HI I'M... Annay
FAVORITE BOOK | Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Jonathan Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman, Ian McEwan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lauren Willig, Lisa See, David Sedaris, Sherman Alexie
ETC. | I really want a Kindle 2 for my birthday.

[lambo]

Kindle2: WHY SO EXPENSIVE? :(
They're so handy, but $300...*sob*

[wonder]

HI I'M... Tora
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | WHAT FORGET YOU uhhh As I Lay Dying, Catch-22, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Speaker for the Dead, Good Omens, Confessions of Georgia Nicholson, Maus (I am going under the assumption that plays and graphic novels count)
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | THIS IS EVEN HARDER. Eoin Colfer (hey: shut up), uhhhh I don't think I've read enough of any one author to consider them a favorite...
ETC. | I've been reading mostly comic books lately lol :') I'm open to any recommendations, I just don't know if I can give many out...

[theory]

AHH EOIN COLFER. Not gonna lie; Artemis Fowl got me through some hard times as a cynical prepubescent...

[ender]

HI I'M... Melia
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Ender's Game (surprise), Ender's Shadow, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, Stardust, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Kite Runner, To Kill A Mockingbird, Song of the Lioness
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | S. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Christopher Moore, Charles deLint
ETC. | Has anyone ever read anything by Terry Pratchett? He was recommended to me, but I don't quite know where to start, what book to look into first.

[wonder]

!!!!!! HI MELIA! /ADDS

[lambo]

HI I'M... Lynnex
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Little Women by Louisa May Alcott || The Fuck Up by Arthur Nersesian || Youth In Revolt by C.D. Payne || Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote || Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Jeffrey Eugenides, Brett Easton Ellis, Charles Dickens (I know, I know, no one likes him), Augusten Burroughs, Cherie Bennett, Jeffrey Brown (I don't know if he counts as an "author".)
ETC. | I don't remember my Shelfari username, so I'll tell you that i'm currently reading CANDY by Mian Mian again because I remember nothing from the first time around.

[sunlet]

The Fuck Up ... Well, isn't that an interesting title, lol.
Do you mind me asking what it's about? :o

[ex_sweetening473]

HI I'M... Baki
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Howl's Moving Castle, The Consolation of Philosophy, Night, Number the Stars, Daddy Long Legs, The Inferno, Private, The clique (don't judge), Moby-Dick
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Lisi Harrison (don't judge), CS Lewis, Shakespeare, John Steinbeck
ETC. | my shelfari
I keep missing books/authors, so just browse my shelfari XDD

[wonder]

OH THERE IT WENT k reposting:

NIGHT AND HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE AND NUMBER THE STARS

hi want to be friends

Also if you like books about the Holocaust I really, really, really recommend Maus. A lot.

[sunlet]

HI I'M... Kacie
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Half Blood Chronicles, The Sound and the Fury, Catch-22, SevenWaters Trilogy, The Vampire Chronicles, Harry Potter, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, The Heart of Darkness.
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | William Faulkner♥, Joseph Conrad, Andre Nortan, Mercedes Lackey.
ETC. | I haven't been able to do much reading because of the school year, but I have a date with my book list this summer lol 8)

[wonder]

I see you like Faulkner and Catch-22 and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead

hi





how are you

[patty]

HI I'M... Rae
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | A Crack In The Line (Michael Lawrence), Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), Kafka on the Shore/Norwegian Wood/Hard-Boiled Wonderland (Haruki Murakami), UmlolHarryPotterSHUTUP, Wrinkle In Time (♥) SHITLOADS MORE
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Madeleine L'Engle is one that I can think of at the top of my head.
ETC. | One of my dreams is to have a library of my own Q___Q

[theory]

HARRY POTTER WAS A STAPLE OF MY CHILDHOOD ♥ There's a Harry Potter exhibit going on in Chicago right now that I think we're going to next month ;lkajsdf.

[allegory]

HI I'M... Lorelei.
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter, Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle, Edna Ferber's Giant
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francesca Lia Block, Cynthia Voight, Franz Kafka, Garcia Marquez, uhh do Machiavelli, Poe, and Shakespeare count? :x
ETC. | I'm so ADD with my Shelfari and stuff ... I may register another one and start over, but it's kind of the same reason I neglect my MAL -- I've just read too much stuff to list.

[lambo]

FFFFFFFF someone else who likes Dickens♥ I tried listening to that book on audio (stfu), but the delivery was terrible. I never got past the prologue.

ps; stop neglecting your MAL! >:(

[noctis]

HI I'M... Teri
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Book Thief, Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter, Candide, Atonement, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allen Poe, Dan Brown
ETC. | I need more book recommendations, haha. (8

[baked]

hello, hello, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead oh my god I loved that play eeeeeeeee. (ROS & GUIL BAWWW)

Also, Candide, and The Great Gatsby!!! I cannot admit to being a fan of Wuthering Heights, however.

[ex_cult688]

HI I'M... Seal!
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Seven Types of Ambiguity ( Elliot Perlman ) The Time Traveler's Wife ( Audrey Niffenegger ) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ( Dave Eggers ) Second Glance ( Jodi Picoult ) Rant ( Chuck Palahniuk ) The Dalemark Quartet ( Diana Wynne Jones ) Crown Duel ( Sherwood Smith )
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Diana Wynne Jones ( my childhood hero❤ ), Patricia McKillip, Susan Cooper, Robin McKinley ( I WAS SUCH A FANTASY JUNKIE BEFORE... ), Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, Cecelia Ahern, Elliot Perlman.
ETC. | I usually pick books with good cover art and creative narration. I'm also in love with present tense. *A*

[theory]

;LAKSJFD I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT DAVE EGGERS l;kajsd I always forget someone! I freaked when I found out he was writing the screenplay for "Where the Wild Things Are" this year. ♥

[yosuke]

HI I'M... QNNG
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | hard-boiled wonderland & the end of the world, then we came to the end, world war z (LMAO i.. good taste. what is it.)
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | haruki murakami, man i don't even pay attention to authors i read things that have a pretty cover I AM SO UNFIT TO BE A BOOK COMM MOD
ETC. | ANNAY YOU LIAR I AM NOT ADEPT.

[patty]

THANKS FOR RECCING HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND TO ME BAWWW

;_;

Let's reread it together sometime... ;///;

[whimsical]

HI I'M... Erica
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle), Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen), Prom Dates from Hell (Rosemary Clement-Moore), The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Barbara Michaels, MM Kaye, Madeleine L'Engle, Jane Austen, Rosemary Clement-Moore, Tamora Pierce, Meg Cabot, Michelle Jaffe, Julie Kenner, Kate Collins, Victoria Holt, JRR Tolkien, Terry Brooks, Jasper Fforde, Carolyn Keene, Mary Stewart, Gail Carson Levine, Victoria Laurie, Shanna Swendson, and Michael Crichton
ETC. | I specialized in children's/YA literature during my library studies so that partially explains the amount of YA authors in the above list. I also have a penchant for mysteries (both of the cozy and supernatural sort).

[ex_cult688]

MEG CABOT! Her books are like some phase EVERY GIRL has to go through❤

[stormy]

HI I'M... STORMY
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | The Saga of Darren Shan/Cirque du Freak Series, Howl's Moving Castle/House of Many Ways, Artemis Fowl Series, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass, Looking Glass Wars, ... and once upon a time Twilight wasn't so goddamn stupid. Randomly information books, and dictionaries of information, too. Give me a book on mythological creatures and I'm sold. A lot of YA/Children's series, oh yes. And oh shit, yeah, I went through the Harry Potter phase, but ducked out like 2-3 books from the end. You know, when it was still good.
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer, Diana Wynne Jones, Alice Sebold, Lewis Carroll, et al.
ETC. | I read in pretty much continuous sessions - start to finish - unless I'm at work, and yes, I hole myself up in the back of the retail store and read when it's boring.

[yoshitsune]

Oh, oh, Saga of Darren Shan ♥ I read that series in like a week XD It was so much fun to read but surprisingly little-known so I had no-one to fangirl over it with.

[ex_operation970]

HI I'M... Matt
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, everything David Sedaris has graced with his words, Interpreter of Maladies, The Believers, Less Than Zero, Middlesex, Dry, Howl's Moving Castle, A Spot of Bother, A Wrinkle in Time, The End of the Affair
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Bret Easton Ellis, David Sedaris, Jeffrey Eugenides, Zoe Heller
ETC. | I want a Kindle, but the idea of reading online frightens me.

[baked]

my book club keeps on wanting to read middlesex but WE KEEP VOTING IT DOWN.

idek I heard it was mostly about how the parents dealt, and not the child? I'm not sure ehhhhhhhh

[baked]

HI I'M... Jill.
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Fight Club, The Sun Also Rises, Catch-22, The Last Of The Really Great Whangdoodles, The Catcher In The Rye, This Property Is Condemned, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Joy Luck Club, I Am The Messenger, Shadow of the Hegemon, The Age of Innocence, Twelfth Night
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Orson Scott Card, Markus Zusak, Stephen Crane, Ibsen, Tennessee Williams. Also, Sophia Kinsella.
ETC. | Hello. I do not read so much anymore, but I used to be an avid reader and I do reminisce the days I woke up at 6AM just to finish a book. Also, there is such a thing as a bad book. When I happen to be unfortunate enough to be in possession of such a piece of filth, I donate it to the local library.

[dominic]

age of innocence, what i remember of that was *so good*

[mcfly]

HI I'M... Nozomi

FAVORITE BOOK(S) | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), The Anne of Green Gables series (L.M. Montgomery), Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin), The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde), East of Eden (John Steinbeck), Battle Royale (Koshun Takami), The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis), Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami and boy is this one popular), Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls), Oh, The Places You'll Go! (Dr. Seuss)

FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Oscar Wilde, Haruki Murakami, L.M. Montgomery, Francesca Lia Block, Rebecca Wells, Roald Dahl, Cao Xueqin

ETC. | I don't do much leisure reading anymore, but I read a lot for class (mostly about China or translated from Chinese).

[baked]

oh my god I loved Anne of Green Gables eeeeeee. AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (I couldn't believe it was written by the same guy who did pic of dorian gray!! SO FUNNY EEE), and catch-22! 8))))


which was your fav narnia? or is it collective, haha.

[rotation]

HI I'M... mei
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | michael sweeney's method, kafka on the shore, the wind-up bird chronical... anything by haruki murakami really, alice in wonderland, exodus....harry potter lmfao
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | haruki murakami, nisioisin ... i don't really have favourites, but those two = nghh
ETC. | lemme just say: kafka on the shore - best book i have read so far, hands down. it was just amazing in so many ways. this might have just been me being emotional, but ahbfjfbd i seriously cried when i finished augh. IT IS FANTASTIC. though, i have yet to read more haruki murakami so i might find something even better...okay tl;dr i am just a book fangirl <3

[super]

HI I'M... Hoshi
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Good Omens, To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Hawk Down, Discworld series (especially the novels that feature the Night Watch/Moist von Lipwig 8D), Trainspotting, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Smoke and Mirrors, For One More Day, and Harry Potter of course -- like any fangirl should.
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Terry Pratchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams.
ETC. | I'M SUCH A COMMERCIAL READER. :| Almost every book I've read has been made into a movie.

[supernova]

HI I'M... Kamila
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Good Omens, The Mists of Avalon, The Long Walk, The Witcher saga, Silmarillion
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Terry Pratchett, Stephen King & some Polish authors nobody here has ever heard of lmao.
ETC. | ...I probably should at least try to read some classics |D;

[masoquismo]

HI I'M... Kim
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Sabriel (Garth Nix), Golden Compass (Philip Pullman), The Time-Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Garth Nix, Tamora Pierce,
ETC. | I really want a kindle, but damn is it expensive. :|

[paperback]

HI I'M... Orlando, to the internet.
FAVORITE BOOK(S) | Ahaha, okay I'll do some serious cutting and keep this short. Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin. The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman. Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett. Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | Mark Helprin. Michelle Sagara West. Terry Pratchett. Diana Wynne Jones. Garth Nix. Tad Williams. Jane Austen. Shakespeare. And I've only just started John le Carre, but he gets to be on here too.
ETC. | I need more time to read. >.<

[dominic]

HI I'M... melissa dominic
FAVORITE BOOK(S) |neurmancer - william gibson, sharp teeth - toby barlow, drawing blood - poppy z. brite, snow crash - neal stephenson, mysterious skin - scott heim
FAVORITE AUTHOR(S) | WILLIAM GIBSON, OMG.
ETC. | err, i start a lot of books i never finish. i write. and sometimes i can be kinda cool.