meme for Day 7 - busy

Day 6 - Prince of Persia and sundry Sunday things....

from Ruminations a meme for Holiday Monday...

Do you snack while reading? Yes. usually something small and not messy to be lifted from a bowl so I don't have to pay attention to the action.

What is your favourite drink while reading? Tea.

Do you tend to mark your books while you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? I have trouble marking books. I simply don't see it as something i can do as they possibly won't always be mine.

How do you keep your place? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book open flat? I use what is handy, a bookmark if I have one, receipt for the book, shopping list etc.

Fiction, non-fiction or both? Both, mainly fiction.

Do you tend to read to the end of a chapter or can you stop anywhere? End of the next chapter.. can't stop easily.

Least favourite way of stopping? interruption i.e. not my choice to stop.

Are you the type of person to throw a book across the room or on the floor if the author irritates you? I only ever threw one book, and that was because it was a perfect story up until the last chapter. The author let you have full control of what you wanted to make from the story and then, he explained! in the last chapter, virtually ruining the entire story, well for me anyway. I felt I didn't need it explained.

If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away? No I usually just guess from the surrounding words the meaning. If it really bothers me I will have a look later. (in Fiction. In non-fiction I have the dictionary beside me.)

What are you currently reading? Makers - Cory Doctorow, The girl who played with fire - Stieg Larsson and a few more and Blogs, lots of blogs.

What is the last book you bought? $5 special from the newsagent on Saturday - "Hidden Power" by Judith Cutler

Do you have a favourite time/place to read? in the morning.

Do you prefer series books or stand-alones? no preference.

Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over? I read a lot, and only recommend if asked. I unfortunately have a terrible memory for authors and proper titles. I remember the stories and my experience when reading. Can't recommend if you can't remember what it is called.
As a classic science fiction reader, I probably 'talk about' the short stories of Ray Bradbury, "There will come soft rains", or "Flowers for Algenon" by Daniel Keyes and "Yesterday was Monday" by Theodore Sturgeon. (online search as aid to memory here:-). I do remember recommending "I Robot" (Asimov) recently, however forgot to tell them it was short stories.

How do you organize your books (by genre, title, author’s last name, etc.)? fiction by Author...non fiction by where I place it on the shelf (or more rightly, where it fits on the shelf), no oganization.

Barbara’s additional question: background noise or silence?
Depends what I am doing, usually quiet hum of household if concentrating.

Egads! this has taken me longer then I wanted it to take...bye.
@kalgrl

Midweek gratitude....

Things I am grateful for this week,

1. books lent me by good friends
2. great department at Library that Rush orders when we need it!
3. Husband who makes me lunch
4. Team who are sharing the tough roster
5. reading "the princess bride" to an interested child...
6. new Star trek movie that was a laugh from start to finish!

and tea, this week brought to you by "Peppermint".

live long and Prosper..

FeralTB aka @kalgrl

My favourite place to read....

FeralTB-)

Harvest would be a hard 't'ask...

Eclectic thoughts;
I was reading about the new Japanese experimental lab being attached to the international space station and how they planned experiments in gardening.
That set me off wondering how they could garden in space, what with weightlessness and all.(can't help it its the regional hillbilly in me..:-) At least they would have plenty of fertilizer if the space plumber couldn't fix the toilet! "Hello space yellow pages, toilet blocked, orbiting Earth you say, who you gonna call?"

But I digress, gardening in space, the first thing I could imagine was soil enclosed in glass or perspex, with a lid on it, how would the carrots get a leafy green top? without space, and in space the whole thing would lift out of the container.
Then I thought about sewing or organically glueing seedlings or seeds into a kind of organic tape in rows, held in place this way they could grow if in a nutrient bath, sort of like how children grow beans in cotton wool in primary school. Mmm, still how would you keep the fluid from floating and making space bubbles? Great to play with until they get really little and hard to find...

All this space gardening lead me to remember a movie I saw years ago, where great glass domes, in which the last surviving organic life from Earth was saved, were floated out into space, until it became uneconomical for the upkeep...think Bruce Dern was in it along with some cute gardener robots. Now all I can see is everything floating with the lack of gravity...a kind of ballet of veges..dancing.

Anyway I think the only idea I could come up with for harvesting was a vacum bag of sorts to gather grains etc, a scythe is definitly out of the question, though Bruce would have probably put it to good use.

Thinking about this lead me to reading/writing difficulties in space and the old joke about the American thinktank who spent millions developing a pen for space that would work on any angle and write on most surfaces, the Russians however, used a pencil, boom boom!

Reading in your bunk, strapped in and book floating in front of you. The pages floating apart, needing to be made of weighted substance to keep them down.
(Yea I know I could have a 'kindle', but where's the fun in that?)
Upside no arthritic aches, downside strap chafing... upside bigger books are easier to hold, downside glasses floating off, unstrapping, banging head because of lack of gravity...and so on. Just imagine the nightmare of trying to read on the toilet in the middle of the space night um...lol.

Screens above the bunks would be the answer, easy to use, change, type on, speak/think too. There would be no paper anyway if you couldn't get 't' harvest in.
Papyrus, mmmm
FeralTB-)

Unread....meme

The106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish and underline the ones read for school.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
A Tale of Two Cities
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
A Canterbury Tale
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Well I had read more than I thought, and in a strange way, less.
FeralTB