Name: Cecilia But you can call me: Whatever you like, just tell me you're going to do it first or I'm not going to answer, am I? My favorite genres: Fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, romance, historical... you know what? Just put down 'all' except contemporary YA which gets on my nerves like nothing else ever. Classic or contemporary?: Classic, by a long way (I do try to read contemporary, but I spend a lot of time thinking 'I liked this book better when it was called X' and then I quit. Mostly I read really awful contemporary so I can mock it.) Non-fiction?: Hellz yes. Have you seen my collection of cookbooks, historical reference, gardening, art history and miscellaneous others? The five books I own I'd save from a fire: D: FIVE? As in, only five? Forget it. I couldn't pick them. My favorite character(s) from a book: Oooh. Sherlock Holmes, Boromir, Arthur Dent, Moist Von Lipwig (and just about every other character who lives on the Discworld, but I'm keeping this short), Sirius Black, Algernon Moncrieff (are we counting plays? We are now), Bertie Wooster, Donald Farfrae (of The Mayor of Casterbridge), Sebastian Flyte, and I realise these are all male character and I'm going to stop now because I am drawing a blank for female ones and I feel silly. Can I count Giant Girl? Because I like her. Wherein I wax poetic about my love for books: When I was younger, we weren't a family who owned a lot of books (other than a great set of the Encyclopedia Britannica from some time in the 1970's, a children's bible, and one picture book that was given to me as a baby because I was born on some sort of literature day). I was never really encouraged to read; mum and dad have always been a bit oddly of the opinion that you only really need a handful of books and you can just read them over and over again, or something. And libraries were mystical places that we never visited unless it was with Grandma who totally gets reading. So having been deprived as a child, I now collect books like mad. I've just discovered that I have three copies of Minority Report and I don't even particularly like it (I liked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep much better). Bibliophile is a completely apt term for me. I am running out of places to store books, and a lot of them have started living in disorganised piles about the place. Also, I'd much rather have a second-hand book than a new one, because I like the way they feel and I always feel guilty cracking the spine of a new book. Ahem.
Re: Introductions
But you can call me: Whatever you like, just tell me you're going to do it first or I'm not going to answer, am I?
My favorite genres: Fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, romance, historical... you know what? Just put down 'all' except contemporary YA which gets on my nerves like nothing else ever.
Classic or contemporary?: Classic, by a long way (I do try to read contemporary, but I spend a lot of time thinking 'I liked this book better when it was called X' and then I quit. Mostly I read really awful contemporary so I can mock it.)
Non-fiction?: Hellz yes. Have you seen my collection of cookbooks, historical reference, gardening, art history and miscellaneous others?
The five books I own I'd save from a fire: D: FIVE? As in, only five? Forget it. I couldn't pick them.
My favorite character(s) from a book: Oooh. Sherlock Holmes, Boromir, Arthur Dent, Moist Von Lipwig (and just about every other character who lives on the Discworld, but I'm keeping this short), Sirius Black, Algernon Moncrieff (are we counting plays? We are now), Bertie Wooster, Donald Farfrae (of The Mayor of Casterbridge), Sebastian Flyte, and I realise these are all male character and I'm going to stop now because I am drawing a blank for female ones and I feel silly. Can I count Giant Girl? Because I like her.
Wherein I wax poetic about my love for books: When I was younger, we weren't a family who owned a lot of books (other than a great set of the Encyclopedia Britannica from some time in the 1970's, a children's bible, and one picture book that was given to me as a baby because I was born on some sort of literature day). I was never really encouraged to read; mum and dad have always been a bit oddly of the opinion that you only really need a handful of books and you can just read them over and over again, or something. And libraries were mystical places that we never visited unless it was with Grandma who totally gets reading. So having been deprived as a child, I now collect books like mad. I've just discovered that I have three copies of Minority Report and I don't even particularly like it (I liked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep much better). Bibliophile is a completely apt term for me. I am running out of places to store books, and a lot of them have started living in disorganised piles about the place. Also, I'd much rather have a second-hand book than a new one, because I like the way they feel and I always feel guilty cracking the spine of a new book. Ahem.