Booknook Friending Meme
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booknookHello, hello! booknook is tossing its hat in the ring for 3weeks4dreamwidth in the form of a friending meme :D
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booknook is tossing its hat in the ring for 3weeks4dreamwidth in the form of a friending meme :D Copy and paste the text from the little box below into a new comment on this post. Feel free to remove the questions that aren't relevant for you! (If you want to fill this out in a post somewhere else, you're welcome do so, simply credit
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Date: 2024-04-27 10:08 pm (UTC)Pronouns: she/her
Age Group: 40ish
Dealbreaker(s): People who try to police what other people are allowed to read.
I Recently Finished Reading: They Do it With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor, Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Christopher Clark, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Murder by Matchlight by E.C.R. Lorac, Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair by Lucy Knisley
My All-Time Favorite Book(s): Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane
My Favorite Book Genre(s): Science fiction, cozy mysteries and classic detective stories/police procedurals, domestic fiction, history, memoirs and graphic memoirs, popular science, historical fiction.
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a classic for a reason.
Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: Science fiction, mystery. I just finished the Radch series (late to the party, I know) and I love the Muderbot series. I love ACD Sherlock Holmes. I'm also a huge fan of Star Trek books.
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Date: 2024-04-28 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-05 06:39 pm (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2024-04-28 04:52 am (UTC)*highfive*
Maryland just outlawed banning books. \o/
>>Worn: A People's History of Clothing<<
Haven't seen that, but have pored over several different "what people wore when" type books for historic references.
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Date: 2024-05-05 06:40 pm (UTC)I do enjoy historical fashion books :)
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Date: 2024-04-28 06:10 pm (UTC)Oh man, that's such a good answer!
Piranesi is an experience! I didn't LOVE it (and I found Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell more my thing than Piranesi, of Clarke's stuff) but I'm very glad I read it, and read it with zero expectations for what I was going to find.
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