43 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Show us which baseball team you'll be cheering on this season.
Same one I cheer on every year.
Show us your favorite television character.
I haven't had my television on in about three months, but when I did, the shows I liked had "characters" like this:
Show us what book is on your night stand.
I don't have a nightstand, but if I did, this is what would be on it.
The multiple books being read at the same time is a bad habit I picked up in college and have never managed to shake. I'm reading LOTR for the humpty-leventh time, and it's making me choke up the way it hasn't in a long time. I don't know if I'm just PMSing, or if it has been so long since I actually sat down and read it that I'd forgotten just what beautiful prose the Professor could write.
Also, I am way behind on my magazine reading. I included only one example of each magazine, but I have at least two issues of a couple that I need to get through. Before they start sending me next month's issues...
A.A. Milne, the author best known for his books about Winnie-the-Pooh, was born on this day in 1882. To celebrate his birthday, show us which Winnie-the-Pooh character you think you're most like.
Shy and naive. That's totally me.Although sometimes I am gloomy, like Eeyore, or officious and bossy, like Rabbit. And intellectual. Like Wol.
Show us a book you started reading, but never finished.
I started the book and really liked it at first. In fact, I stayed up half the night reading. Then, the further the story got, the more I realized that the only character I gave a damn about had been dead since about the third chapter, and that I didn't really care what happened to the rest of them.
Merlin and Morgaine got more and more like Basil and Sybil Fawlty as the book proceeded.
And I hate Arthurian legend anyway.
So I stopped reading.
Show us where you do your best thinking.
Show us something (or someone) you're sick of.
I would answer this question, but that would require posting a photo of the most overrated parents of twins on the planet.
And I refuse to have their ugly mugs in my Vox photo collection.
Show us a painting or piece of art you have hanging on your wall. What room is it in?
Submitted by Strive2Be.
Last September I posted about a map that some of us regulars on forums at TheOneRing.net had drawn for the people who were most instrumental in setting up the new format forums. The artist made a limited number of high quality reproductions (signed!) and I bought one. Months and months later, I finally got it framed and here it is.
It's on my bedroom wall because that's where my desk is and where I spend most of my time. It's also the only wall that I feel like I can put stuff on, since my sister has pretty much commandeered the rest of the house...
Show us the book you're reading right now.
Submitted by Strive2Be.
My mom recommended this author to me. Miss Read is the pen name of Dora Jessie Saint, a novelist and retired schoolmistress. The two series she is most known for are set in the English villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green (both, as far as I know, entirely fictional).
The Fairacre series is written in first person, and is about Miss Read coming to be the schoolmistress at the Fairacre village school. As usual, the small village is full of interesting characters and seethes with the undercurrents and intrigues that small towns always seem to have. All very innocuous and sweet, of course.
This book is the last one in the Fairacre series. I am working through all the books my mom owns, then I'll fill in the missing ones from the library.
My mom adores this author. I am enjoying the books, too, but I am surprised that mom likes them so much because of all the marital shenanigans that go on. But she gets sniffy over books where the characters imbibe alcoholic beverages. And I don't even mean getting roaring drunk...just having a couple drinkies.
But you know how moms are. They have their hobby horses, same as the rest of us, I guess.
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