Last seen in geonncannon's journal:

Don’t take too long to think about it.
Fifteen books you’ve read that will stick with you always.
First fifteen in no more than fifteen minutes.

This is hard, mostly because I don't think in terms of "books", but rather stories, and I read a lot of multi-book stories. So, with that in mind...

( Fifteen stories.... )

On the subject of books, here's an anti-rec - I re-read The Time Traveler's Wife over the weekend, because the movie is out soon and I figured I should refresh my memory. I had forgotten how much I hate hate hate that book! God, Henry is so whiney and selfish and a misogynistic bastard and his deterministic view of life is so fucking depressing and basically just an excuse for behaving like a shit! And it's all written in the present tense which, yeah, makes sense given the nature of the story but fanfic has ruined that for me - I see present tense for anything longer than 1000 words and I automatically hit the back button. Novels don't have back buttons. And, oh, god, does it go on and on...by the time I get to the last quarter of the book I'm thinking just die already you whining, pathetic bastard! Most of all I loathe books with such misleading titles. This is not about the time-traveler's wife, it's all about the time traveler. Her life is all about him which pretty much sums up a lot of literature, I know, but there's still no excuse for it. Not only is the wife incapable of having a conversation that's not about men, she can barely have a conversation that's not about the worship of Henry. Pathetic.

And yet...if it's well made (which may be unlikely, as it's Hollywood) and if they've cut out the right parts it should make a wonderful movie. Eric Bana is playing Henry...he's a decent actor. I'll be interested to see if he can make me give a damn about the character.

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.

mab_browne gave me the following: Wales, dogs, horror, supernatural, WIP

...I don't think "WIP" is really a word, but okay.

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Meme from geonncannon

March is Women's History Month in the United States. And March 8 is International Women's Day. I figured that in honor of that fact, I would list some of my favorite female characters from television shows and ask you guys to do the same. So, let's have it. Who are your top five favorite fictional women and why?

( My choices behind the cut because this got long... )

The one thing I hate about online shopping is the uncertainty about when it'll get here. Especially at this time of year.

My Christmas pressie for sis finally arrived! Can't say what it is as she might read this, but I had to order it from Zazzle. They just opened a UK store, but apparently they're still shipping from the USA because it took forever to get here! But here now and I'm so pleased!!!

And that meme everyone's been doing....

( Oh, how I wish this were true! )

I am better, but still not well. Here's a meme to pass the time...

1.Reply to this post, and I will pick four of your icons. I'll do this for whoever wants to respond.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee!

I've deleted most of my icons from LJ but admiralandrea picked four of my icons from my Journalfen account: ( under the cut )

Comment if you want to know about any of my other icons or if you want me to ask you about yours!

Last seen in celsitude's LJ:

Rules:
1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

Uh...I cheated slightly in that one movie is in here twice. But it's my favourite movie ever! (Well, this month, anyway.) I know a couple of these are really easy, but...what the heck.

( Cut for length )

'Cause I swore I was going to post more often and I don't really have anything much to share... Meme last seen via castalie:

Rule: Each player lists 8 facts or habits about themselves; the rules of the game are to be posted first. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people. (Except I don't tag. I don't do stuff on principle when tagged.)

( Eight random facts about me )

Seen floating around...

Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them. (Or at least I'll tell you something about it.)

Go on, try me :-)