Friday, May 30, 2008

Six Random Things

Hmmmmm . . . I just got tagged by Karen Vanuska for the Six Random Things About Myself game. I am now torn between my enjoyment of making lists and my sister's admonition: "Just because it happened to you, doesn't make it interesting." But add in that I get to tag six other people, which means another list, and I see on which side this is tilting: 1. The first book review I ever wrote was of The Borrowers Aloft when I was in the first grade. 2. There are 799 books on my TBR list, according to my LibraryThing library. 3. My current ratio of attorney billing hours to reading time is approximately 4 to 1. 4. I have read books while walking outside since I was in Kindergarden. The invention of the iPod, which allows me to download audiobooks, has saved me from chronic dorkiness, twisted ankles, or worse. 5. When I was 12, I wrote a book called Sixth Grade: The Way it Really Happened, which, while it may have been derivative of Judy Bloom (my favorite at the time), would have been a blockbuster had it not blown away in a Nebraska blizzard while waiting for the school bus. 6. I am currently working on 96 book lists, according to ListsOfBests. The list I am most likely to finish is Prose Books by Jim Harrison, which I am 94%+ of the way through (with only 100 pages left of Off to the Side). The list I am least likely to finish is Outside Magazine's 26 Essential Books for the Well-Read Explorer, which I added only for Christmas present ideas for Hubby. The six book bloggers I tagged for this are: The Tip of the Iceberg Books 'n Border Collies The Lists Reading, Writing, and Retirement Leafing Through Life DaBookLady Read and Release It was hard to find six who hadn't done it yet. And maybe some of these have. Sorry to tag you twice if that's the case.

2 comments :

  1. I love that title -- Sixth Grade: The Way it Really Happened. To bad the blizzard didn't blow those pages into the hands of a publisher. I bet it was a masterpiece.

    Canin's strength is definitely as a short story writer, but with each novel, he seems to be getting better and better. I'm about to start America, America. Would love to trade thoughts when I'm done.

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  2. Well, I'd like to read Sixth Grade: The Way It Really Happened! I was digging through some old stuff the other night and came across a story I wrote in 2nd grade about a sad monkey. It was even illustrated -- a monkey behind bars at a zoo with tears running down his face. I'm wondering what in the world that was all about!

    I posted my 6 Random Things.

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