If I wish upon a star...

[fajrdrako]

From December 13, 2008:

1. Do you get to read as much as you WANT to read? (I’m guessing #1 is an easy question for everyone?)

2. If you had (magically) more time to read–what would you read? Something educational? Classic? Comfort Reading? Escapism? Magazines?

1. No, never. I want to read an infinite number of books, all the time. Magazines, too. I average about a fraction of one one-thousandth of that. So it goes.

2. I would read novels, poetry, fanfic, mysteries, romances, popular science, and lots and lots of history. I would read YA and fantasy and science fiction and memoires and classics and catch up on my favourite authors. Of even just the stuff I own and haven't read yet... I seem to have a backlog of biographies. I'd read cookbooks and books about words. I'd read physiology and psychology and whatever you call the discipline that Steven Pinker writes. I'd read travel books and adventure books and plays. Political theory. Sociology.

And I'd read more in foreign languages like French, Italian, Latin and Esperanto.

I'd read many, many comics and graphic novels.

I keep a little notebook with me at all times, in which I write things I want to know or remember. I started a new notebook on November 4. When I did that, I started listing books I want to read right away in the back. Some are recommendations from friends, some are reviews I've read, some I came across while browsing in bookstores and libraries. Since November 4, I have listed approximately 125 such books. And that's just the beginning of the list. First think on the list: Domino by Ross King. Last thing on the list: Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Oh, and I'd read those three Torchwood novels I bought recently, that are calling loudly to me.

Comments

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, want to read an infinite number..... average one one-thousandth of that.

I'm VERY impressed. What is your secret? *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm VERY impressed. What is your secret? *g*

I have a TARDIS is my brain. Wibbly wobbly infinite dimensions, and a happy disregard for the limits of the possible.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Oooh, have to keep my eyes out for one of those! Sounds useful. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Cheap, too.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I used to have a Tardis stashed away in my brain (though to me it behaved rather more like a sponge).

Unfortunately, it went walkabout a few years ago, and I can't seem to find out how to get it back. Fortunately, it did not take all the keys away -- which is how I was able to give you the C.S. Lewis book ref over the phone. :-)

Sadly, I encountered the following item (http://community.livejournal.com/octranspo/446374.html) about a Facebook ref. I'm mainly mentioning it because I am again reminded how human nature does *not* change over centuries -- hence the ref to Thomas a Becket in my comment. :-)

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I might add that it helps that some of those comics (Tintin, Asterix) are in those foreign languages. [I remember finding Asterix shouting "Deliri isti romani!" in a Latin version of same.]

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love it when they translate modern books into Latin. I have one of the Asterix books in Latin, and the first Harry Potter, and a Dr Seuss.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Everyone should have their own TARDIS. I wonder how it works on Gallifrey?

Re the 'kick an OCTranspo Driver' thing: Funny how different people blame different people. I'm more inclined to blame the Mayor and City Hall. As for kicking people - how unCanadian.

[beathen.livejournal.com]

Are the Torchwood novels worth it to buy and read? I've heard that a couple of them weren't all that good...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I've also head that some of the Torchwood novels weren't all that good but I've enjoyed some of them very much indeed. And the one I didn't much like, other people have called the best - so it's all a matter of taste!

Personally, I would enthusiastically recommend them.

I'm loving Torchwood Almost Perfect, which I started reading yesterday.