Tue 9 Jan 2007
Book Meme
Posted by Liza under Books, Silly Internet Quizzes
Lizzy tagged me for a right-up-my-alley meme!
Find the nearest book.
Name the author & title.
Turn to page 123.
Post sentences 6-8.
Tag three more people.
Ok, the book is Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce, which I read this afternoon as something of an anecdote to being sad after the funeral.
Even if the god were to dump me into such a gathering at home. It’s small to promise a man something, even without words, if you never intend to give it to him, whether it’s kisses or your heart.
She didn’t like where that trail of thought led her: Nawat.
I tag (and you can leave these in the comments or on your own blog): Reno, Polly, and Cindy.
FURTHER, I invite you to add the 3 most recent books that you’ve read and enjoyed. (You don’t have to quote from them, I’m just looking for reading ideas, and I suspect that the 3 of you read unusual and interesting subject matter that might spark me in out-of-my-norm reading directions.)
And if anyone else would like to be tagged, especially with the “most recent books you’ve enjoyed” part of the meme, please consider yourselves tagged! (Carrie? Covert? Trista?)
January 9th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Aha! I just happen to have a book right here next to me.
Book Editors: James Clifford and George E. Marcus
Book Title: Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
Author of the article that page 123 falls within: Stephen A. Tyler
Title of the article: Post-Modern Ethnograpy: From Document of the Occult to Occult Document
Sentences 6-8: “Transcendent then, neither by theory nor by practice, nor by their synthesis, it describes no knowledge and produces no action. It transcends instead by evoking what canot be known discursively or performed perfectly, though all know it as if discursively and perform it as if perfectly.
“Evocation is neither presentation nor representation.”
January 10th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I’ll post this here:
(I can’t tell you the name of the book, since it would give away too much information about my place of employment.)
“Handrails shall be continuous within the full length of each stair flight or ramp run. Inside handrails on switchback or dogleg stairs and ramps shall be continuous between flights or runs.”
Wow…my job must be exciting.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I’m pumping in the storage closet which contains textbooks and AV equipment. Therefore, the closest book is a teacher’s manual. Insights: An Elementary Hands-On Science Curriculum.
Page 123 is a handout and does not have sentences. Page 122, then, which only has 6 sentences. (Boy, I am really winning with this one!)
“Have students explore evaporation with other liquids on the plates and with the newspaper squares.”
The last book I read and finished was, not surprisingly, a parenting book. It was Between Parent and Child by Haim Ginott, and came much recommended by Moxie. Cait is now reading it and we are trying to put his recommendations into action. His philosophy of childrearing is wonderfully compassionate and really resonates with us, though parts of it will take mental adjustment for us.
I am in the middle of two books, both of which you may have read, but recommend them anyway. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss and March by Geraldine Brooks.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I loved Eats, Shoots & Leaves! And the handrail thing is very funny! What does this meme evoke?
January 10th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Closest book title: Ex-gay research: Analyzing the Spitzer study and its relation to science, religion, politics and culture
Eds: Jack Drescher, MD and Kenneth J. Zucker, Phd
Chapter 14: Too Flawed, Don’t Publish
Author: Lawrence Hartmann
pg 123 is actually blank, but 124 is the first page of the chapter:”I will touch on only a few. Some of the problems are technical; others are of emphasis or skepticism, of definition, of numbers, and of ethics. Some of these problems were pointed out to Spitzer by many very critical peers when he presented the paper at a May 2001 panel at the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.”
Three books I just finished and enjoyed:
- Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman - very funny, very insightful, I was forced to read it by my genderqueer partner.
- The Elf Queen of Shannara by Terry Brooks
I read WAY to much sci/fi and fantasy, it is like crack to me.
- When Work is not Enough By Stoker and Wilson This was for a class but I enjoyed it, at least the first section, after that it got boring and technical and eventually I was annoyed with their methodology.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Okey dokey! Since I recently rearranged the reference texts near to hand, I had a gamut to choose from. For the fun of it, I picked The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate, by Eugene Ehrlich. Lines 6-8 as follows (since it doesn\’t have sentences, exactly, but entries):
I am the very must under-read well-read person I know, so the list of three books will have to stretch waaaaaaaay back. Um. Um. Wait! I\’m still thinking! Um. Okay:
1. Joan Didion\’s The Year of Magical Thinking
2. Roger Grenier\’s The Difficulty of Being a Dog
3. Alfie Kohn\’s Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason
Women of the Way: Discovering 2, 500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom. That\’s in front of literally SCORES of half-read books that I can neither finish, nor give up on. Maybe after the kids are away in college.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Oops I didn’t close the block quote up there after the list, and I didn’t close the italics after the Alfie Kohn book. Do excuse the shoddy proofreading. How can I be expected to proof read a comment when I have all these books backing up, clamoring to be read?
January 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Okay, last in a series of peripatetic notes: I just read over at Reno’s LJ thingy and discovered that WHEN SHE’S IN BERKELEY SHE WRITES AT MY NEIGHBORHOOD COFFEE SHOP!! The one of the two, up the street from me, that I prefer (better chairs; great proprietor; etc.). That would be Village Grounds. YOWza that’s a small world!
Now if only I knew what she looked like! Hey Reno! Here’s a recent photo mit child:
I’m the brunette.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Ooops! Faked us all out! Picture didn’t post! Here’s the static URL:
Watch that doesn’t post either and I will have scattered crumbs all over Liza’s beautiful website. Do accept my apologies.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Aaaaaaaaaargh
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/353019367_42f35abb88_m.jpg
January 10th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Wow! This is exciting, and Polly, you and the young ‘un are lovely. I am terrible at recognizing people, but I will watch for mom-kid combos that resemble the picture. As for me, you can check out these photos (assuming I actually get the links to post):
“http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v517/backpack906/Outdoors/2006-03-Picacho/?action=view¤t=Picacho_17_SPBL.jpg”
“http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/backpack906/Outdoors/2006-03-Picacho/SP_Pack.jpg”
“http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/backpack906/Outdoors/2006-03-Picacho/SFConservatory_BLSP.jpg”
You can also ask Sarah or Ed if I’m there and to point me out.
Do you have particular days/times you’re there?
January 10th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Okay, the links work if you cut and paste.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Polly! Reno! I think the two of you speak the same delightfully intellectual language. I could hear Reno drooling at the sentence, “Since I recently rearranged the reference texts near to hand, I had a gamut to choose from.”
Reno is one of my favorite people in the world, and Polly one of my favorite people I know only from the Internet. I so hope you get to meet.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Hm. Now we are all italicized. I’m going to try to fix it all, which will make some of the comments even more confusing (but less annoying to read).
January 10th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Sometimes wordpress gets totally unreasonably attached to a formatting glitch. I have no idea why.
Polly, your close-bracket was there, but a new emphasis marker opened, and every time I erased it, it grew more. I felt like I was in the broom scene in Fantasia. So we are all staying overemphasized for a bit.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Reno, um, your suggestion that Sarah and Ed might be able to point you out assumes that Sarah and Ed think your name is Reno.
May I share your actual name with her?
January 10th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Oh, and Jenny, when you said “I read WAY to much sci/fi and fantasy, it is like crack to me.” I was right there with you, as my wife will no doubt attest.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Whew. Italic madness ended. Polly, your book comment now has the other wordpress annoying formating problem, which is that whenever I edit a comment, apostrophes gain backslashes, for no reason I can discern. Erasing them just does the Fantasia broom thing.
Also, I think I erased a chunk of actual content relating to your “on deck” book, your outlaws, and the lesbian buddist mafia. (Again which I think will be of interest to Reno, whose name, you have no doubt deduced, is not Reno.)
Recomment that bit?
January 10th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I think “Now We Are All Italicized” ought to be the title of a book on contemporary culture. Or the title of a book on something.
Thank you Liza, for the formatting work and the introductions. What a delight!
January 10th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Of course I had a link in there to this image. Which now has to be an outgoing link to this image.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Liza, you may share my real name, but Sarah and Ed at the cafe would probably know who Polly means if she asks for “Reno. I think I’m their only peripatetic Nevadan regular.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Heh. Our grandparents (and parents?) were hyphenated-Americans, but we, we are the italicized Americans.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Just remember, you asked for it.
The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure, Third Edition
By Alice Sturgis
If a two-thirds vote is required to pass a proposal and 65 members vote for the proposal and 35 member vote against it, the 35 members have won; the 65 have been defeated. This is minority, not majority rule.
The higher the vote required, the smaller the minority to which control passes.
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The World’s Most Dangerous Places, by Robert Young Pelton
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights, by Richard Labunski
Syria, A Historical and Architectural Guide, by Warwick Ball
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I am currently reading:
Syria, by Dianna Darke (a Bradt Travel Guide)
The reason for some of the choices is that I am taking my leave burning vacation shortly. After visiting Michigan State for a Day and then attending Moonbase ConFusion in Detroit I am flying to Syria for a week, visiting with TR (I don’t remember if you met TR, she is an SF Fan based in the DC Area but works for the State Department these days. Currently she is assigned to the MFO in the Siani) and a friend of hers who is an Attache with our Damascus Embassy. In addition to Damascus we are going to visit the Krac des Chevaliers (a BIG Crusader Castle) and Palmyra (a ruined Roman Era city in the desert.) After that I fly back to Vienna where I have opened up an overnight layover to a full week where among other things I plan to attend the Boku Ball (The Farmer’s Ball, sponsored by the University of Agriculture. There are about 300 Balls between New Year’s and Ash Wednesday.) Then I will return home to get some rest…
Of course the fact that I land on Superbowl Sunday and have arranged for Judy Kindell to pick me up and we will go to Joan’s Superbowl Party in Stirling before I get home will ensure I am extra chipper at work on Monday.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Cool meme! I think I’m going to do this tomorrow….. (will have to take a picture of the book since I’m photoblogging it now).
January 11th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Book to recommend: “Another Place at the Table”, by Kathy Harrison. About foster families. Very good. Even if you’re not considering fostering.
January 11th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
The world grows smaller!
Two days ago at Village Grounds I commented on how cute a woman was. Mind you, I had never met her, but Sarah was teasing her… and she *was* cute!
She’s also, it turns out, one of Polly’s good friends, Isabel.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
You know Isobel would love to hear that. Her daughter is our daughter’s best buddy, and her partner calls herself Baba, like me. They’re a good half the reason we moved onto our block. Here’s her blog.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Oh, she already knows that I was saying how cute she was — I said it loud enough for her to hear and we smiled at each other. I’ll definitely pop over to her blog, though. Thanks!