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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:23 pm
Got a question for the ToO's resident perditorian?
Then ask it here!
-Kim
Then ask it here!
-Kim
My favorite sport to watch would have to be baseball, specifically the Chicago Cubs. My favorite board game is M*A*S*H Trivial Pursuit.KODY 105 wrote:What is your favorite sport? Board game? Movie? Fast-food restaurant? Color? Middle name? Singer? Brand of cereal?
Hmm...one book by one author, or one book and one author, separate?Catspaw wrote:If you could recommend only one book and one author to your friends/fellow ToOers, which ones would it be, and why?
A perditorian, as explained in the Enola Holmes series by Nancy Springer, is a finder of lost people and things. Enola's goal, when she's old enough to not be forced into going to boarding school by her older brothers, is to be the world's first scientific perditorian. She has already used her deductive and reasoning powers to find many people in the book series, including Dr. John Watson.And what exactly is a perditorian and why is it relevant to you?
Sorry, I should have clarified - one book and one author, separate.Ingress Neverwhere wrote:Hmm...one book by one author, or one book and one author, separate?Catspaw wrote:If you could recommend only one book and one author to your friends/fellow ToOers, which ones would it be, and why?
A perditorian, as explained in the Enola Holmes series by Nancy Springer, is a finder of lost people and things. Enola's goal, when she's old enough to not be forced into going to boarding school by her older brothers, is to be the world's first scientific perditorian. She has already used her deductive and reasoning powers to find many people in the book series, including Dr. John Watson.And what exactly is a perditorian and why is it relevant to you?
Even though it's a children's/young adult book series, Enola is one of my favorite female literary characters. And being a perditorian sounds like a pretty cool profession. Other than that...it's not really that relevant.
-Kim
Okay. The book I would recommend is Harpo Speaks!, by Harpo Marx. It's a wonderful look into the life of the "silent" member of the Marx Brothers, and not just his career on vaudeville or in the movies. For someone who never spoke a word onstage or on camera he's really quite verbose. And he's almost as good a story teller as he is a harp player. This book is a must-read (if not must-own) for any Marx Brothers fan.Catspaw wrote:Sorry, I should have clarified - one book and one author, separate.
It's very good especially for, as I said, a children's/young adult series. I'm hoping that Ms. Springer will go a while with it, as I'm interested in seeing how she writes Enola's reaction to a certain incident at Reichenbach Falls.I am unfamiliar with the series, but it does sound interesting! It does sound like quite the fascinating profession!
It is! And all it takes is a Trivial Pursuit game board and pieces, and the questions from an old M*A*S*H trivia board game.And in reference to your answer to KODY, M*A*S*H Trivial Pursuit sounds like fun!
Hrm. Least-favorite AIO Saga...that's a tough one. Right now I'd have to say it's the whole "Best Small Town" saga. Maybe it's because I'm still a relative "newbie" when it comes to AIO, but it just didn't interest me that much. I might change my mind next time I decide to ILL the album and give the full saga another listen, but for right now that's where it stands.KODY 105 wrote:What is your least-favorite AIO saga? Most favorite? Most favorite multiple-part episode and why?
Whoo. Another toughie. My answer would have to be Ruth. Short as it is, I love the story of Ruth's loyalty to her mother-in-law and how she chose to follow her back to Israel rather than going back to her own people. I can identify a little bit with Ruth's feeling like an outsider. My Bible is a study Bible and one of the questions in the margins is why God chose a Moabitess to be an ancestor of David; the answer given is that by doing so, God showed that his new covenant would be with all people who believed and not just the Hebrews.What is your favorite book of the Bible and why?
I love reading and find it super hard to narrow down so many favourites as well, so I know it can be quite the challenge! The only place I've seen Harpo Marx is on an episode of I Love Lucy, where he was quite hilarious (and silent, of course!) so I don't quite qualify as a Marx Brothers fan, but the book does sound really interesting! Good storytellers are the best. I haven't read anything by Neil Gaiman, though I have heard of the two books you mentioned, since they made films within the last few years. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!Ingress Neverwhere wrote:Okay. The book I would recommend is Harpo Speaks!, by Harpo Marx. It's a wonderful look into the life of the "silent" member of the Marx Brothers, and not just his career on vaudeville or in the movies. For someone who never spoke a word onstage or on camera he's really quite verbose. And he's almost as good a story teller as he is a harp player. This book is a must-read (if not must-own) for any Marx Brothers fan.Catspaw wrote:Sorry, I should have clarified - one book and one author, separate.
See, now you're asking the impossible, asking a bibliophile to recommend just one author! But, after hemming and hawing and paring down the list, the one author I'd recommend would be Neil Gaiman. He's best known as the author behind Coraline and Stardust, as well as work on the DC comic series Sandman. Gaiman is a fantasy writer primarily, though sometimes his writing brushes the science fiction. And it's all very good; I remember the first time I read Neverwhere and being extremely reluctant to put it down. His newest release, The Graveyard Book, recently won the Newberry Medal for children's literature.
Very creative! They make all kinds of random versions of games (Star Wars Risk, POTC Monopoly, and on and on) so I assumed you meant that it came that way, not that you had to create the game first!Ingress Neverwhere wrote:It is! And all it takes is a Trivial Pursuit game board and pieces, and the questions from an old M*A*S*H trivia board game.Catspaw wrote:And in reference to your answer to KODY, M*A*S*H Trivial Pursuit sounds like fun!
Thanks! Yeah, my mom bought the game cards off of e-Bay (don't ask me what happened to the rest of the game it went with, lol!) and we decided to use those one night instead of the usual Trivial Pursuit cards, and a game was born!Catspaw wrote:Very creative! They make all kinds of random versions of games (Star Wars Risk, POTC Monopoly, and on and on) so I assumed you meant that it came that way, not that you had to create the game first!