Reviews

He – Death – stops for no man. Therefore, allow us to force certain works of art upon your attention before you die.

MOVIES

Tangled

Lady in the Water

MUSIC

Stravinsky: Unbend Your Prejudice

BOOKS

By These Ten Bones

Finder

Books that Make Us Human

10: The Moviegoer

9: Leaf, by Niggle

8: Jane Austen

Book Meme 2012

Week 1: Book Crush(es)

Thalia: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Urania: Morpheus
Terpsichore: Bean
Melpomene: Benedick
Calliope: Richard Winters 

Week 2: Books I’d give a theme song to

Thalia: Wooster & Jeeves & Stephane Grappeli
Urania: Hero & Endless Dream, and Twilight & Angels
Terpsichore: Many Lists
Melpomene: Dark Waltz & Melian and Thingol, Debussy & Woolf
Calliope: Make Way for the Ducklings & Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto

Week 3: Best villain

Thalia: The Man in the Brown Suit, from  . . . .  The Man in the Brown Suit!
Urania: Captain Hook, from Peter Pan
Terpsichore: Moriarty etc., from Sherlock Holmes, etc.
Melpomene: Mr. Jackman, from Old House Of Fear
Calliope: Edmund, from King Lear

Week 4: Best love story

Thalia: Our Mutual Friend, by Dickens
Urania: Gwyneth and Judd, from The Bell at Sealey Head
Terpsichore: A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken
Melpomene: John and Abigail Adams, in their letters
Calliope:  Sir Conan and Lady Anne, from The Red Keep

Week 5: Characters and literary figures I’d name my children after

Thalia: Quentin
Urania: Miranda
Terpsichore: Many Names
Melpomene: Beatrice & Benedict
Calliope: Edmund & Lucy

Week 6: The author by whom you own the most books

Thalia: Agatha Christie
Urania: Lewis & McKillip
Terpsichore: Lewis
Melpomene: Terry Pratchett
Calliope: Lloyd Alexander

Week 7: Favorite words and phrases, or lines and literary allusions that would win your heart.

Thalia: Tasty Words
Urania: As You Wish
Terpsichore: Lists of Allusions
Melpomene: Song of Songs
Calliope: Supercalifragilisticexpialidosious

Week 8: Best Story Settings

Thalia: Shakespearian Rome
Urania: Sci-Fi
Terpsichore: Narnia
Melpomene: The Inferno
Calliope: Mistawis

Week 9: Book(s) that you would bring on your honeymoon. (ie; so intrinsic to your life that it MUST be shared with your life partner as soon as possible. Or just fun to read together.)

Thalia: Poetry!
Urania: The Sandman
Terpsichore: A Library
Melpomene: Heart of the World
Calliope: Rudyard Kipling

Week 10: Books that I would bring if the world was going to be destroyed by aliens/cylons and we had to restart civilization as we know it. (ie: the basis of human knowledge and thought and civilization.)

Thalia: History
Urania:
Terpsichore: Fiction
Melpomene: Political Thought
Calliope: Theology

Also, for the

30 Day Book Meme Challenge 2011,

hic ecce The List!

Day 01 – The best book you read last year

Beowulf
A Canticle for Liebowitz

The Eyes of the Dragon

 

Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times

Death Comes for the Archbishop
Brideshead Revisited
The Discarded Image

 

 Day 03 – Your favorite series

Discworld Series

Harry Potter/ Narnia

G.A. Henty

Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series

Going Postal

The Chamber of Secrets

In Freedom’s Cause 

 

Day 05 – A book that makes you happy

CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

The Magician’s Nephew

Murder Must Advertise

 

Day 06 – A book that makes you sad

To The Lighthouse

The Little Prince

The Hiding Place/The Marble Fawn

 

Day 07 – Most underrated book

The Once and Future King

O. Henry

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

 

Day 08 – Most overrated book

Twilight/Harry Potter/Catcher in the Rye

Catcher in the Rye
Adam of the Road

 

Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

Delta Wedding

Brave New World

Lord of the Rings

 

Day 10 – Favorite classic book

Herodotus
Ballad of the White Horse/That Hideous Strength

Day 11 – A book you hated

Paradise Lost
Gone with the Wind

Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore

Mill on the Floss

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide

 

Day 13 – Your favorite writer

G.K. Chesterton

C. S. Lewis

 

 

Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer

The Poet and the Lunatics

Perelandra

Day 15 – Favorite male character

Aragorn

Lord Peter/King Alfred

Day 16 – Favorite female character

Lucy Pevensie 

Hermione Granger 

 

Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book

Quotes, quotes everywhere, and many books in sight
Ibid! 

 

Day 18 – A book that disappointed you

Horatio Hornblower
Tess of the D’Urbervilles/Scoop

 

Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie

Persuasion
Pride & Prejudice/Stardust/Howl’s Moving Castle/Princess Bride

 

Day 20 – Favorite romance book

Lord Peter and Harriet Vane
Pride & Prejudice

 

Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood

The Kitchen Knight/The Red Keep

Tales of the Kingdom/Tales of the Resistance

 

Day 22 – Favorite book you own

An Ideal Husband
Guide Book to Women 

 

Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t

Mel’s Lists
‘Psichore’s Lists 

 

Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would read

Catechism/Shakespeare
Wheelock/Shakespeare 

 

Day 25 – A character to whom you can relate to the most

Sophie Hatter
Orual 

 

Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something

Scottish Chiefs
An Experiment in Criticism 

 

Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending

Father Brown
Goblet of Fire/And Then There Were None/Supernaturalist

 

Day 28 – Favorite title

List: Pretty Words . . . .

List: Intriguing Ideas . . . . 

 

Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked

Madame Bovary

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging

 

Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time

Song of Songs/Lord of the Rings
Stacks/The Bible