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Blanket Box: Books and reading
Sep. 16th, 2018 09:57 pmModelled after Coyote's (osteophage) Blanket Boxes on other topics!
The theme for this box is, as it says on the tin, books.
> What's a blanket box?
A blanket box is a set of prompts to help you use to build your pillowfort! They all have a theme: in this case, that theme is books! The idea is that you start a post or multiple posts of your own, rather than reply to this one. You can find links to other blanket boxes here.
> The Rules
The first rule is that there are no rules.
Interpret or bend the prompts however you like. If something doesn't work for you, change it.
This blanket box can be answered in one post or in multiple posts, depending upon how you decide to answer the questions.
Optional: link or reblog this post so that more people can use this blanket box
Optional: tag your post or posts "reading blanket box" so that we can browse the tag and see each other's answers!
> The Blankets
A book you've read more than once
Akif Pirinçci: Felidae
I don't know how many times I've read this book. But finding out the author is an asshole kept me from reading it again for years :(
A book you couldn't finish (or finished despite hating)
Uh, I usually finish books, but I was really disappointed in The Child Thief by Brom.
Maybe I expected too much? I loved the premise so very much and ...
The writing is pretty okay, but there were may too many story lines (Avalon, Peter, the Captain, Ulfgar ...), and too many stayed unfinished. What was up with Ulfgar? And the Captian? There just was no real plot, somehow.
And man, the characters!I exprected a delightfully ambiguous or maybe evil Peter and got ... well, dunno.
A book you love despite significant flaws
Dan Simmons: The Abominable
I loved it, somehow even the seemingly neverending details and the glacial speed at which the story progresses. BUT. The denouement fucking sucks :(
A book you didn't love though it was objectively good
John Williams: Stoner
It's captivating and I LOVE the language. But the plot is so devastating and depressing (for me) ... I didn't finish it and won't reread
A book in a genre you don't normally read
Barry Hutchison: Invisible Fiends
Two genres I usually don't read: Horror and children's lit. Amazon tells me it's for 13-16 year olds, but seriously this is fucking creepy. I loved it but it was almost too scary for me >.<
A book from your childhood
Astrid Lindgren: Madita
I've read this so many times, I love Astrid Lindgren <3
A book that you have complicated feelings about
That'd be The Abominable again. I love it, but still ... the denouement (see above) :)
A quote from the last book you read
Right now I'm reading Wolfgang Behringer: Tambora und das Jahr ohne Sommer [Tambora and the year without summer] and the quote would be in German ... eh, anyway, here you go:
"Der Ausbruch des Tambora war der Beginn eines Experiments, an dem die ganze Menschheit unfreiwillig teilgenommen hat"
VERY rough translation: the eruption of Tambora was the beginning of an experiment in which all of humankind unwillingly took part
An author you'd like to meet
No, thank you. I'd rather not :)
A genre you'd like to get into but haven't
I think I've tried everything I'm interested in :)
A book you'd like to read
Too many to count, honestly. But one of them is Koushun Takami: Battle Royale
A book you want to recommend
Walter Moers: The City of Dreaming Books
One of my favorite books. It's so full of amazing ideas and cool characters. It's a book about loving books and will aways have a special place in my heart
The theme for this box is, as it says on the tin, books.
> What's a blanket box?
A blanket box is a set of prompts to help you use to build your pillowfort! They all have a theme: in this case, that theme is books! The idea is that you start a post or multiple posts of your own, rather than reply to this one. You can find links to other blanket boxes here.
> The Rules
The first rule is that there are no rules.
Interpret or bend the prompts however you like. If something doesn't work for you, change it.
This blanket box can be answered in one post or in multiple posts, depending upon how you decide to answer the questions.
Optional: link or reblog this post so that more people can use this blanket box
Optional: tag your post or posts "reading blanket box" so that we can browse the tag and see each other's answers!
> The Blankets
A book you've read more than once
Akif Pirinçci: Felidae
I don't know how many times I've read this book. But finding out the author is an asshole kept me from reading it again for years :(
A book you couldn't finish (or finished despite hating)
Uh, I usually finish books, but I was really disappointed in The Child Thief by Brom.
Maybe I expected too much? I loved the premise so very much and ...
The writing is pretty okay, but there were may too many story lines (Avalon, Peter, the Captain, Ulfgar ...), and too many stayed unfinished. What was up with Ulfgar? And the Captian? There just was no real plot, somehow.
And man, the characters!I exprected a delightfully ambiguous or maybe evil Peter and got ... well, dunno.
A book you love despite significant flaws
Dan Simmons: The Abominable
I loved it, somehow even the seemingly neverending details and the glacial speed at which the story progresses. BUT. The denouement fucking sucks :(
A book you didn't love though it was objectively good
John Williams: Stoner
It's captivating and I LOVE the language. But the plot is so devastating and depressing (for me) ... I didn't finish it and won't reread
A book in a genre you don't normally read
Barry Hutchison: Invisible Fiends
Two genres I usually don't read: Horror and children's lit. Amazon tells me it's for 13-16 year olds, but seriously this is fucking creepy. I loved it but it was almost too scary for me >.<
A book from your childhood
Astrid Lindgren: Madita
I've read this so many times, I love Astrid Lindgren <3
A book that you have complicated feelings about
That'd be The Abominable again. I love it, but still ... the denouement (see above) :)
A quote from the last book you read
Right now I'm reading Wolfgang Behringer: Tambora und das Jahr ohne Sommer [Tambora and the year without summer] and the quote would be in German ... eh, anyway, here you go:
"Der Ausbruch des Tambora war der Beginn eines Experiments, an dem die ganze Menschheit unfreiwillig teilgenommen hat"
VERY rough translation: the eruption of Tambora was the beginning of an experiment in which all of humankind unwillingly took part
An author you'd like to meet
No, thank you. I'd rather not :)
A genre you'd like to get into but haven't
I think I've tried everything I'm interested in :)
A book you'd like to read
Too many to count, honestly. But one of them is Koushun Takami: Battle Royale
A book you want to recommend
Walter Moers: The City of Dreaming Books
One of my favorite books. It's so full of amazing ideas and cool characters. It's a book about loving books and will aways have a special place in my heart
