Follow Me Friday (3)

Follow Me Friday is a Weekly Meme hosted by Parajunkee. Every Friday bloggers participate to answer a specific question and spread the love!

Q. It's circle time. Time for us to open up and share. Can you tell us FIVE quirky habits or things about you? We all have them...

1. I don't like babies. I know that that's akin to being virtually inhumane, but I don't. And I'm not sorry for it. They freak me out with their disproportionate body parts (i.e. large heads and large eyes). Strangely, I love toddlers ...

2. I'm addicted to Asian music. And Celtic music. And Reggae music. And the soundtracks of any film/show in existence. And Italian opera sung by Korean singers. Case in point, my newest obsession:

And just a couple of months ago, I couldn't stop listening to jazz.

3. Like a lot of bloggers it seems, I suffers from insomnia. Usually to get to sleep, I have to play solitaire and read some random trivia (I have mild case of OCD) and listen to "A Year of Love" which is by a singer whom I worship. But at the same time, I don't really mind it. I love staying up at night and then walking around in the very early morning. I have done so many times and the experience is honestly one of kind. I am seriously considering turning nocturnal.

4.I read really fast. When I first received Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, (I wasn't aware) my sister timed me and I finished in 2 hours and thirty seven minutes. One of my many nicknames in the family is Spongebob.

5. I've always had a very strict schedule for Saturdays. Nowadays, I wake up at around 11:00, drive around until 12:55 and then return to my television to alternate between watching cooking shows on PBS (a television station which I've been faithful to since first exposure to Arthur) and writing.

TGIF!

Follow Me Friday (2)

Since I'm extremely absentminded, I didn't realize that i hadn't gone to Parajunkee's HQ and thought the old question was the new one. Sigh. I really didn't want to delete my other post and my link so I'm just going to do another one! Yay!

As you know, Follow Me Friday is hosted by Parajunkee to help promote bloggers and other fun stuff.

Q. The Blogger Apocalypse made me a little emotional. What is the most emotional scene in a book that you have read lately?

That's probably the very, very end of Before I fall. I won't spoil it for anyone but I wasn't moved by that book until I realized what was going to happen. That might be because I'm watching 49 Days, which is a show about a girl who tries to collect tears so she can come back to life. I think the reality of Before I Fall hit me just a little bit too late. Granted, I wasn't bawling but I can't deny that I didn't feel the tears gathering in my eyes. Hallmark of a well written book and what made me give the book more stars.

Follow Me Friday

Follow Me Friday is a Weekly Meme hosted by Parajunkee. This is my first time participating so I`ll be borrowing last week's question.

Q. Circle time! Time to share. What character in a book would you most like to be, what character in a book would you most like to date?

Hermione, hands down. She is possibly one of the realest female characters in YA literature. Not only is she a brainiac and a bookworm and is proud of it, but that brain of hers is what helps Harry and Ron 90% of the time they get in trouble. She suffers from insecurities, she has a platonic friendship with a guy who isn't in love with her and she's part of a minority (albeit a fake one). And unlike most adventure or epic-natured books, she is shown to be just as brave and just as strong as the men. That's probably the moment I wanted to be her so badly it hurt: when she endured through Bellatrix's torturing and came more or less the same girl who went in. Torture does change a person but it's completely possible to withstand torture that is directed towards your race (or blood?). (This is not affected by the fact that I think Emma Watson's gorgeous, hence one of her older pictures above.)

My date would probably be in the same vein as Hermione, in a metaphorical light. It would be Mackie from The Replacement. Sure, some people might choose a guy who's strong and a "bad boy" or deceptively evil but when I was reading the book, Mackie felt so real I sometimes forgot he was a fictional character (and a fairy? Goblin? Still don't know what they are.) I loved that he looked weird, that he was a loner for a reason and that he had temptations to which he succumbed before learning his lesson. I loved that he was dying and yet was still worried about other people, that he had such an amazing best friend and that he could lose himself in music. He had a hobby, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, a paranormal male protagonist written by a woman with a hobby. Yeah, if anyone, it'd be him though getting around town might be a little bit difficult ...

(No picture because I find the one on the 2nd edition to be horrendous towards my image of him.)