Book meme

[altariel]

Meme from fjm , for World Book Day:

The book I am reading: Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles.
The book I am writing: Currently exists on the back of two pieces of A4 printout, and is made of hope.
The book I love most: Hardly original, but it is The Lord of the Rings.
The last book I received as a gift: I will say Jeremy Dyson's short story collection The Cranes that Build the Cranes, because it was a Christmas present and I have just finished reading it.
The last book I gave as a gift: Philip Kerr, The One From the Other, due to be dispatched via BookMooch tomorrow.
The nearest book on my desk: Lucy M. Boston's The Children of Green Knowe and Tove Jansson's The Summer Book are snuggling up together: two books in which the wisdom of ages is given to small bereft children.

Comments

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

made of hope

I love it already.

And the image of Green Knowe and the Summer Book snuggling is one to cherish.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It may stay made of hope, but that's not such a bad thing.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yay for the Martian Chronicles! I've recently discovered them in one of the few bookshops that have a decent selection of English books. I used to love them as a teenager - it's a completely different experience now, reading it as a sci-fi hardened adult, in original. It's so very different from the usual sci-fi we get to read; it has a very poetic air about it, almost no tech stuff at all, and is sometimes almost like a fairy tale.

I'm not sure I'd still love them, had I first met them as an adult. But since they're one of my very first encounters with sci-fi, they'll always have a special place in my heart.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Finished the book last night and I absolutely loved it, for all those reasons: its poetry, and fairy tale aspects. I don't mind that the SF trappings aren't accurate, the book is about Mars as a focus for hopes, fears, dreams, etc.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It's an exceptional piece of writing, that's true, but me, I prefer my sci-fi a bit more nerdy, I guess. Anyway, at least we share our favourite book. ;)