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In Farenheit 451, volunteers memorise entire books, to preserve the text from burning: what text would you learn and save?
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Have you ever had a crush on a character in a book?
Mm, all the time. Make mine angsty, dark-haired, and cerebral.
The last book you bought is:
I am of course not buying books at the moment; so the last three books I bought were from Persephone: The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (brilliant); The Village by Marghanita Laski (not the best book about the immediate post-war period that I've read recently and I've been reading a few); and They Can't Ration These by Vicomte de Mauduit ("ROAST STARLINGS: After skinning the birds, clean them and roast them as you would sparrows.").
The last book you finished is:
The.Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson (thank you,applegnat)
What are you currently reading:
Depending which room I'm in:
Selected Poems by Christopher Logue
The Orwell Mystique by Daphne Patai
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
They Can't Ration These by Vicomte de Mauduit
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Five desert island books:
Likecommunicator, I'll skip the book I've memorized and pick:
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd
Four Quartets
They Can't Ration These by Vicomte de Mauduit
Persuasion by Jane Austen
communicatorIn Farenheit 451, volunteers memorise entire books, to preserve the text from burning: what text would you learn and save?
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Have you ever had a crush on a character in a book?
Mm, all the time. Make mine angsty, dark-haired, and cerebral.
The last book you bought is:
I am of course not buying books at the moment; so the last three books I bought were from Persephone: The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (brilliant); The Village by Marghanita Laski (not the best book about the immediate post-war period that I've read recently and I've been reading a few); and They Can't Ration These by Vicomte de Mauduit ("ROAST STARLINGS: After skinning the birds, clean them and roast them as you would sparrows.").
The last book you finished is:
The.Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson (thank you,
applegnat)What are you currently reading:
Depending which room I'm in:
Selected Poems by Christopher Logue
The Orwell Mystique by Daphne Patai
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
They Can't Ration These by Vicomte de Mauduit
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Five desert island books:
Like
communicator, I'll skip the book I've memorized and pick:Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd
Four Quartets
They Can't Ration These by Vicomte de Mauduit
Persuasion by Jane Austen
