book meme

This will give me something to read this summer -- the NEH list is something I've ignored for quite a while...of course, the NEH list is more of a reading list for grade and high schools...NEH "Timeless Classics" list


List from fharraige, what I've read in bold:

( BBC Book meme )

more quizzes and rambling

Well, the cleaning is about halfway done, because I goofed off this morning instead of working. The place is looking much better, though. I really need to go through everything and ream out every single drawer, cupboard, etc.; that is, do a real spring cleaning, and not just a "lick and a promise."

My brother called me up tonight, to talk about itinerary for the trip. He was being rather sarcastic about my not having a job yet, and now I feel even worse -- like I should be staying home and looking for a job instead of taking this trip with my husband. Although after a while, I realized that my brother didn't have a job for a while when he graduated from college, went home to live with our parents, and took about a year to get the job he applied for in the city he wanted to live in. I felt that I got "encouraged" out the door after my own graduation, into a graduate school situation that I felt at the time I didn't really want to be in. But that's water under the bridge, and I am long since out of that situation and finally doing something that I like, at least most of the time. So maybe it was both sarcasm and a little bit of superiority on his part, which he would enjoy because he's my little brother (7 years younger, even if he's about a foot taller than me. I got the math genes, he got the height genes.)

I know what type of law I want to do; now if I could just figure out what sort of employer I want and find a job with that employer, the work front would be peachy keen. But I have a nagging fear at the back of my head that if I set my heart on what I think would be a good work situation, I will either not get it, or it will turn out all spoiled somehow. Sort of a "be careful what I ask for, because I'll get it...or else."

Well, the quiz I found was ( What Heinlein Book Would I be In? )

Astoundingly accurate about what I suspect. I always liked The Number of the Beast, and the idea of being able to access other authors' fictional universes.

Heh, here's a good question: name your top twenty favorite authors/novels/fictional universes...

The quiz author didn't put all the Heinlein novels in, obviously. My own on-line handle comes from a Heinlein juvenile, Citizen of the Galaxy. The weird thing, though, is that I started reading Heinlein with The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and not any of the juveniles that I can remember. I think that I was in about 4th grade or so (11 years old for the non-Americans) when I got my hands on that book.