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Sheelzbub’s Stick…

Thank you to Sheelzbub for handing this over and to bilious young fogey because I read it there first.

You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?

This question confuddles me. Perhaps it’s because I have only read the synopsis of Fahrenheit 451. If I have understood it correctly it is asking me which book I would like to see burnt. Well, I don’t think any book should ever be burnt.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Ha! Who haven’t I had a crush on! This is the abridged version.

Mr Darcy the real Pride and Prejudice Darcy and NOT the Bridget Jones one (though I must say Colin Firth who has acted as both Mr Darcy’s probably has a lot to do with this).
Paul Ashworth ( Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby). The book itself is based on Nick Hornby’s life so doesn’t strictly count as fiction but the main character is not real. This has nothing to do with the fact that it was role played by Colin Firth in the 1997 film. It has more to do with the fact that I can’t help but be attracted to a man who so faithfully follows Arsenal.

John(Jack/Earnest) Worthing JP ( Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde). I have never been one to fall for a playa but this guy got game!

The last book you bought is?

  • The Last Juror – John Grisham
  • The Four Agreements – Miguel Ruiz

Neither of which have been completed.
I only read Grisham when I fly and I had bought this in Miami Airport on the way back from Belize. I have never fallen asleep on a flight before but for some reason this time I did. I’m saving it for Kenya.

The Four Agreements I bought the minute I landed after a Belizean friend recommended it to me. It is a tiny book but I have found that parts of it conflict with my own spirituality so I had to take a break.

What are you currently reading?
The Sunday Times. It takes me until about Thursday to get through most of this paper.

Five books you would take to a deserted island:

I have no intentions of getting stuck on a desert island until after July 17th when the latest Harry Potter book comes out.

  • I would take this book along with the rest of the collection. (This counts as one book).
  • The Bible
  • The Karma Sutra – you never know who might turn up to rescue me so I better be ready. It’s the pocket version so this only counts as half a book
  • The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) – I have read this before so it also counts as half a book
  • Waiting In Vain (Colin Channer) – Rod reckons I will identify with the characters so I can’t wait to find out
  • The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?

I had a long list of people that I wanted to hand this to but I stopped over at Elayne Riggs who made me think twice about passing over memes willy-nilly.

That said, I would love to read the following people’s responses
Mshairi (she is always going on about words this words that)
Larry D Lyons II (He writes so well, he could make a shopping list seem fascinating)
Maitha (if only to see this meme in Kiswahili)
Oh and ofcourse, from this dunce to another (I just want to know if he does anything other than watch TV).

Comments

  1. That would be a Colin Firth crush then, I never knew that :-). In terms of Desert Island Books, I’d have to take LOTR’s (cos that alone would probably keep me going until I got rescued) and Hitch hickers Guide to the Galaxy (complete set).

    Mama JunkYard Says: It is NOT a Colin Firth crush, he just happens to play the roles of fictional characters that I like…but I wouldn’t expect a sci-fi nerd to understand all this.

  2. I knew you would have the Hitch Hikers Guide and LOTR somewhere in there just as I would Mich 🙂

    I cant wait for the Hitch Hikers Guide movie next week. Peckham Multiplex are doing a preview show in the afternoon next Thursday. I am soley tempted to take the afternoon off!

    Mama JunkYard Says: I can’t work out which is worse…the fact that you are into all this Hitch Hikers stuff or the fact that you frequent places like Peckham…*smh*

  3. am not one to reread books though have reread 6sheldons(apparently there are not as hot as they were when i first read them except If tomorrow comes)

    Currently am readin
    MY purpose driven life-Rick Warren
    Thinkin Big-Ben Carson
    Just read
    Are u afraid of the dark-Sidney Sheldon

    If i was to get stranded in an island;
    1.Last Don-Mario Puzo *****
    2.Thorn Birds-Collen Mccollough
    3.Kane and Able-Jeffrey Archer
    4.War and Peace
    5.Bible

    ofcourse nicholasgichu works of literary

    Mama JunkYard Says: Kumbe you read? Why 3 books at once though? Don’t you get confused? I think the only Sheldon I have ever read is If Tomorrow Comes. I am still waiting for my copies of your bestseller…

  4. A bible….and then Karma sutra..lol!
    woo unto you coz nobody is coming to rescue you other than God…better not carry that stuff. You can hurt yu’rself with it esp when yu are alone.
    anybody feeling like crying with me?

    Mama JunkYard Says: LOL..dude you are too funny…

  5. if I am not mistaken then this is my first comment on your blog .
    anyways I have done the meme in the language you asked for.

    have a good day

  6. @MJY – you a ‘Potter fan – I have nothing else to say to you 🙂
    And that Colin Firth no-crush, *smh*

    By the way, I always have more than one book I am reading, sometimes four. I look at it this way, if you went to work and talked to Jane, went out with Mshairi for the evening, the came home to Mich, you wouldnt be confuddled then, wouldya?:)
    At least that is how I look at it!

    Happy Friday!

  8. I’m SO with you on the Kamasutra. And Harry Potter!! I once stayed in the house for two days just to finish Order of the Phoenix!!

    And I also read two or three books at a time.

  10. read your comment jana on the four agreements i haven’t the full book but have read a lot of analysis maybe i should read it but the four agreements are the underlying principles so i guess you might just read it then tell me , so what could be conflicting wit your spirituality,Karmasutra i watched the movie but it was boring,Harry Porter ooh i love the movies

  11. thanks Mama J – I feel like an absolute RETARD now!!!! does the web count as a ‘book’.. think of it as a really laaaarge one with no particular theme. On a serious note, I really need to indulge in some literature! I am a tremendously slow reader, so this does not help my case either.

    Concerning your sentiments on Meme’s, which i found particularly interesting, Ive commented on a post here

  13. MJY we have alot in common, I love Harry Potter, can’t wait fro July 17th and Colin Firth- he is to die for…