Testing, Testing...

Since I commented on PZ Myer’s blog Pharyngula, I decided to let the book meme virus infect me. I figured it would be a good way for me to test whether I had worked out most of the PC problems I’ve been having lately. (No comments from the Mac gallery, please…I get enough of those from my brother LOL) And, I love reading book memes because they introduce me to books that I never encountered.

A book that changed my life: David Hough: Street Strategies. The first book about safe motorcycling I came across and read (and still re-read), along with his two books Proficient Motorcycling and More Proficient Motorcycling. Three great books for any motorcyclist to read and keep in their library, whether new or experienced. Every time I read them I learn something new.

A book I've read more than once: Lousia May Alcott’s books...all of them. I don’t know how many times I’ve read them but the first time was back in the 1970’s and I can quote huge chunks verbatim. Great stories, mindless reading and I STILL cry every time Beth dies.

A book I would take with me if I were stuck on a desert island: If I was limited to one book…Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Or a field guide to edible plants. Other book options might depend on whether I was stuck alone or not. ;) (Thanks are due to The Minstrel Boy who caught that I gave the wrong author.)

A book that made me laugh: All the books by Randy Cassingham (Thisistrue.com), Darwin Awards and so many others, who look at people and modern life and point out how stupid humans can be. (So far, I have not appeared in any of these books…)

A book that I wish had been written: The one I have in my future plans…I have my grandparents' letters to each other from WWII and I’d love to create either a novel based on the letters or a book from the letters to show what life was like during those years. But there is so much information in them that it will take a long time to whittle it down.

A book that I wish had never been written: I don’t know. Books I hated other people love. Guess, like PZ Myers, I would have to say the Bible. So many evil things have been done based on someone’s interpretation of it (although there are some beautiful passages of sheer poetry in it).

A book I've been meaning to read: Since reading KA’s blog Biblioblography, I’m going to start Voltaire.

I'm currently reading: Several books at once (as usual). Thanks to the rainy weekend, I plan on finishing the third book in Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory’s The Obsidian Trilogy When Darkness Falls; I also am reading The Darwin Awards (again) and Nora Robert’s new book Morrigan’s Cross.

I really have a wide variety of books in the house; so many that Husband has threatened to leave me if I bring any more home. It’s an addiction. My books range from motorcycle ones, romance novels, science fiction, 20^th children’s literature, history, to my secret infatuation, 19^th century children’s literature. Particularly as a woman, reading some of those books makes me so glad I live in the 20^th and 21^st centuries!

I love to know what others read too, and why. It gives me more titles to buy and bring home! Or maybe I should hit the library so my husband doesn't leave... So, to quote PZ, “…infections aren't made by the virus's choice, so if you leave a comment here, consider yourself contaminated.”