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Book memes abound, but where do they come from?
My favorite place to find book/reading memes is Booking Through Thursday. The memes are usually short, though they allow for elaboration, and updated weekly. You can see some examples below, but this is only one sort of question. One of my favorite of the recent ones is about niche reading. Others are about preferences between paperbacks and hardbacks, a list of all the books on your nightstand/a single shelf of a bookcase, books you would "unread" if you could, and topics like book gluttony and the graphic novel/comic book divide.
I highly encourage you to check them out.
Here's my response to four of the most recent:
1)What’s the lightest, most “fluff” kind of book you’ve read recently?
The Language of Flowers, by Marina Heilmeyer
It was mostly pictures and, while it had a lot of information, it wasn't very scholarly in it's approach. It recapped myths (like the Narcissus one) and had some herbalism, mixed with random historical bits. Fun, but not at indepth as I'd like. </span>2)What’s the biggest book you’ve read recently? (Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any other way you care to interpret.)
Well, my dad bought The Iron Hunt, by Marjorie Liu, at an airport, which means it must be fairly popular, right? It was a really great book, I've got the second one checked out of the library.
3)What’s the most informative book you’ve read recently?
I'm still in the middle of reading it, but Organ Theft Legends, by Ve?ronique Campion-Vincent is very informative. Not only does it look at the origins of the urban legends about kidney thefts and children who were "adopted" by organ farmers, but it also looks at attitudes about organ transplants and much more. It was translated from the original French (by Kelly something, WorldCat Local does not have the most informative record) and was published by the University Press of Mississippi. There's an update and some commentary about legends from the US in the edition I have.
4)What’s the most enjoyable, most fun, most just-darn-entertaining book you’ve read recently? (Mind you, this doesn’t necessarily mean funny, since we covered that already. Just … GOOD.)
Probably a tie between some rereads of Discworld novels (Terry Pratchett) and an old book that combined three Agatha Christie novels about spies. The title of the latter escapes me, but I think one of the stories was Murder in Mesopotamia.
(and you thought I was joking about reading that book on organ theft legends...)
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