Book meme, day 7
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litlover1219. Your favourite picture, junior fiction and Young Adult books?
Those categories seem to overlap so much that I never know what book should go where. But I'll take a stab at it:
Picture: Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol, illustrated by Scott Cameron (okay, it has lots of text, but it also has lots of pictures!)
Junior: Anne of Green Gables
Young Adult: Beauty by Robin McKinley
20. Least favourite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise?
Wow, that's . . . oddly specific! I have to say, the love triangle. Once in a while you see one done well, but in general, I'm sick of them. (It was TV that first made me sick of them, but I'm pretty sick of them in books too.)
21. A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving?
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag by Gordon Korman. It was my sister's book. I read all of her books even though I usually didn't like them much, just because I read nearly everything that came into the house. But this one was an exception: well-written and laugh-out-loud hilarious. I swiped it from her shamelessly, and have been a big Korman fan ever since.
(I don't mean to run down my sister's taste or anything; we're just very different. In fact, we've long been polar opposites in nearly everything -- books, movies, music, you name it! :-) )
Those categories seem to overlap so much that I never know what book should go where. But I'll take a stab at it:
Picture: Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol, illustrated by Scott Cameron (okay, it has lots of text, but it also has lots of pictures!)
Junior: Anne of Green Gables
Young Adult: Beauty by Robin McKinley
20. Least favourite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise?
Wow, that's . . . oddly specific! I have to say, the love triangle. Once in a while you see one done well, but in general, I'm sick of them. (It was TV that first made me sick of them, but I'm pretty sick of them in books too.)
21. A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving?
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag by Gordon Korman. It was my sister's book. I read all of her books even though I usually didn't like them much, just because I read nearly everything that came into the house. But this one was an exception: well-written and laugh-out-loud hilarious. I swiped it from her shamelessly, and have been a big Korman fan ever since.
(I don't mean to run down my sister's taste or anything; we're just very different. In fact, we've long been polar opposites in nearly everything -- books, movies, music, you name it! :-) )
