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Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile and ask you to explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
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alliegee asked me about...( Some of my interests. Duh. )
** You can comment and I'll ask about 7 of your interests, or you can just ask me about any of my interests if you want!**
In other news...
I've checked out that list of books from that meme that's been going around. I've read (unless I messed up the count), 19 of them. Many because I had to, for school. Some because I actually wanted to. I choose not to name them at this time, but I will mention that I thoroughly believe that there is a reason for the expression "hurts like the Dickens." And a certain other book I once read was (sorry if you enjoyed it - I know someone on my flist was talking about it a while ago) re-voltaire-ing.
But those are, for whatever reason, classics. I don't know how they came up with this list (I think someone mentioned, somewhere), but there are some really questionable things on it. "The DaVinci Code"? Okay if you enjoyed it. I'm sure it was an entertaining read. But is it really the kind of thing to make people go read? To hold up as an example of what people should be reading? Especially now that the fad has passed?
That's the one that jumped out at me most, but there are others I'd question. Which is another reason not to do the meme. I'd end up rambling on about too many things on the list...
alliegee asked me about...( Some of my interests. Duh. )** You can comment and I'll ask about 7 of your interests, or you can just ask me about any of my interests if you want!**
In other news...
I've checked out that list of books from that meme that's been going around. I've read (unless I messed up the count), 19 of them. Many because I had to, for school. Some because I actually wanted to. I choose not to name them at this time, but I will mention that I thoroughly believe that there is a reason for the expression "hurts like the Dickens." And a certain other book I once read was (sorry if you enjoyed it - I know someone on my flist was talking about it a while ago) re-voltaire-ing.
But those are, for whatever reason, classics. I don't know how they came up with this list (I think someone mentioned, somewhere), but there are some really questionable things on it. "The DaVinci Code"? Okay if you enjoyed it. I'm sure it was an entertaining read. But is it really the kind of thing to make people go read? To hold up as an example of what people should be reading? Especially now that the fad has passed?
That's the one that jumped out at me most, but there are others I'd question. Which is another reason not to do the meme. I'd end up rambling on about too many things on the list...