Questionnaire on books
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frualeydisOkay, I saw this at skud's journal and thought I wanted to play too.
The list is as follows:
* 3 books you use most often for reference
This changes constantly. Currently it is:
"Constructing Medieval Sexuality" ed. Lochrie, McCracken and Schulz
"Courtly Love Undressed" by E. Jane Burns
"The witches' Bible" by Janet and Stewart Farrar
3 books you read on "high rotation"
"The Lord of the Rings"
"Tam Lin" by Pamela Dean
Robert Heinlein, none specific, it changes according to my mood.
3 books you read for comfort
"The new Pregnancy and Childbirth" by Sheila Kitzinger
Cheap historical romances by norwegian author Margit Sandemo
Anything by Robert Heinlein
3 books you really ought to read
"The performance of self. Ritual, clothing and identity during the hundred year's war" by Susan Crane. It's standing in my bookcase and I never seem to have time to read it.
"Governance of the Consuming passions" (about sumptuary legislation) I can't remember the author, but it has definitely been on my "to do-list" for over a year.
"Kleiderkritik im Mittelalter" Also a must, but my german isn't really good enough.
3 books you will never read
Modern swedish prose (or poetry), I almost never read any "serious" literature written after 1900.
Political books by neo/Laissez-faire liberal (Thatcherism and the like) writers.
Stephen King. I tried one, when I was a teenager and didn't like it. My best friend loves him though.
This was hard, there are so many books I really ought to read and there never is enough time.
Eva
The list is as follows:
* 3 books you use most often for reference
This changes constantly. Currently it is:
"Constructing Medieval Sexuality" ed. Lochrie, McCracken and Schulz
"Courtly Love Undressed" by E. Jane Burns
"The witches' Bible" by Janet and Stewart Farrar
3 books you read on "high rotation"
"The Lord of the Rings"
"Tam Lin" by Pamela Dean
Robert Heinlein, none specific, it changes according to my mood.
3 books you read for comfort
"The new Pregnancy and Childbirth" by Sheila Kitzinger
Cheap historical romances by norwegian author Margit Sandemo
Anything by Robert Heinlein
3 books you really ought to read
"The performance of self. Ritual, clothing and identity during the hundred year's war" by Susan Crane. It's standing in my bookcase and I never seem to have time to read it.
"Governance of the Consuming passions" (about sumptuary legislation) I can't remember the author, but it has definitely been on my "to do-list" for over a year.
"Kleiderkritik im Mittelalter" Also a must, but my german isn't really good enough.
3 books you will never read
Modern swedish prose (or poetry), I almost never read any "serious" literature written after 1900.
Political books by neo/Laissez-faire liberal (Thatcherism and the like) writers.
Stephen King. I tried one, when I was a teenager and didn't like it. My best friend loves him though.
This was hard, there are so many books I really ought to read and there never is enough time.
Eva
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Re: Questionnaire on Books
Date: 2008-07-22 06:43 am (UTC)/Eva
Re: Questionnaire on Books
Date: 2008-07-22 06:10 pm (UTC)I'm still in the process of reading through your archives since I found you only this week and I'm hugely enjoying your blog.
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