A Fun Book Meme

I'm not ready to get back into the daily grind yet and am still in the Easter vacation mode. I'm in the mood for a meme and book memes are my favorite kind of memes. I found this one over at The Anchoress.

Include up to 3 answers each if you like. Consider The Bible or other religious texts a gimme, particularly for question #15.

1. Most treasured childhood book(s)?
A Wrinkle in Time - by Madeleine L'Engle

2. Classic(s) you are embarrassed to admit you’ve never read
Gone with the Wind - I have seen the movie umpteen times, but never read the book.

3. Classics you read, but hated?
I can't think of any I hated.

4. Favorite genre(s)?
Biography (particularly saint biographies)
Spiritual Classics
Historical Fiction

5. Favorite light reading?
inspirational short stories (Christian/Catholic)

6. Favorite heavy reading?
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Pope John Paul II
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

7. Last book(s) you finished?
The Big Book of Women Saints by Sarah Gallick

8. Last book(s) you bailed on?
The Brothers Karamazov - 1060 pages - a little too long

9. Three (only three!) books on your nightstand?
Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours
Magnificat - April 2009
The Voice of the Saints

10. Book(s) you’ve read more than once, twice or three times?
The Story of A Soul -- The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
The Diary of a Young Girl -- The Autobiography of Anne Frank
Hellen Keller: The Story of My Life

11. The book(s) that meant the most to you when you were younger (ie, college/young adult)?
Hellen Keller: The Story of My Life
The Story of a Soul - The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
The Diary of a Young Girl - The Autobiography of Anne Frank
I have to break the rules here and include a 4th book:
The Night They Burned The Mountain - Dr. Tom Dooley

12. Book(s) that changed the way you looked at life?
The Bible
Lives of the Saints - John Crawley & Co. Inc. 1953
True Devotion to Mary - St. Louis de Montfort

13. Book(s) some would be surprised to know you’ve read
The Good Earth -- Pearl S. Buck
1984 -- George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

14. Book(s) You Mean to Read this Year
My own (hopefully very soon)

15. Desert Island Book
The Bible
Butler's Saint of the Day
The Magnificat (a subscription for the entire length of my stay on the island)

If you are reading this, consider yourself tagged. Please leave a link in my combox if you do it.
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Comments

  1. Heidi Hess Saxton4/15/09, 11:30 PM

    I did it!

    http://mommymonsters.blogspot.com/2009/04/fun-book-meme.html

    Happy Easter, Jean! Heidi

    ReplyDelete
  2. Steven R. McEvoy4/20/09, 5:03 AM

    My answers are up here.

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