bookish meme

[salinea]

meme stolen from meganbmoore

1. Favourite Book? Impossible to say just one! Maybe Greg Egan's Distress.

2. Favourite Author? Again with the just one. Leguin, Bujold, Egan, Friedman, Zelazny, Gaiman, Kushner...
3. Favourite Genre? SFF.
4. Favourite series of books? A Song of Ice and Fire by GRRMartin. Also the Amber series by Zelazny and the Vorkosigan series by Bujold.
5. Favourite Illustrator? Luis Royo, Yoshikata Amano.
6. Favourite book from when you were little? Le Livre de la Licorne by Joles Sennel (original is in Catalan)
7. Favourite Hero? John Aversin from Barbara Hambly's Dragonbane series.
8. Favourite Villain? Littlefinger from A Song of Ice and Fire.
9. Favourite couple? Richard and Alec in Kushner's Swordspoint.
10. Favourite Character? What's with all those evil questions? Let's say Tremaine in Martha Wells' Fall of Ile Rien series.

5 Lasts

1. Last book you bought? KJ Parker's the Company.
2. Last book you were given? A book by Fred Vargas I believe.
3. Last book you pre-ordered? Probably Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey.
4. Last book you loved? Destroyer by CJ Cherryh
5. Last book you hated? Gosh. Can't remember.

3 dos

1.Do you read part of your current book every day? No.
2. Do you stick to one genre of books or do you jump around? Big majority of SFF novels with the occasionnal crime and historical ones.
3. Do you review all the books you read on LJ? I try but I always miss a few.

1 If
1. If you were stuck on a desert island and could only take one book with you, which book would you choose?
Ursula Leguin's Left Hand of Darkness.

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

9. Favourite couple? Richard and Alec in Kushner's Swordspoint.

♥ (mostly Richard) :)

I finally finished Kushiel's Mercy the other day...

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I think I prefer Alec actually! He's so wonderfully broken and woobie-like yet so vicious and sarcastic at the same time ♥

what did you think of it?

[hamsterwoman]

I like Alec as a character but he, metaphorically, he makes my shoulderblades itch, if you know what I mean. He is very believably and painfully broken... I think I tend to prefer (fictional) people who are broken in a happy, or at least composed, way myself. (Although I don't think I liked him that much better in Privilege of the Sword, where he is kind of closer to that.)

But I simply adore Richard, because he is such an unexpected character for his role, I find.

My usual lengthy ramblings are forthcoming, but in brief, Mercy surprised me by actually making me like Sidonie (is it me, or did Carey finally give her an actual personality in this one?) Didn't like the worldbuilding as much in this one, and the plot was a bit too much with the spiraling and the meta (and the sloooow for the first third of the book), but it was about what I'd expect. But I feel cheated out of tje Maislin/Imriel/Mavros/Lucius orgy with Sidonie and Amarante watching that the book clearly should have ended on.

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

This looks like fun..*steals meme*

[c-mantix.livejournal.com]

Comment tu trouves l'oeuvre de Fred Vargas? Je pense que j'aime le plume de Vargas, mais je ne peux pas blairer Adamsberg! LOL.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Je te dirais quand je l'aurais lu!! C'était un cadeau de mes parents qui l'aiment bien. Moi je sais pas encore.