Book meme

[katikat]

Day 04 - Your favorite book or series ever:

"Almost Like Being in Love" by Steve Kluger AKA the love story of Travis Puckett and Craig McKenna as told through emails, Post-It notes and various other unconventional ways. This book is like a chicken soup for the soul or a hot chocolate on a cold winter day. Whenever I feel blue, this book helps. Travis is nuts and a geek, Craig is smart and a jock. And they fit together like two jigsaw puzzle pieces!

Craig: "I was right. He knows everything. Like metaphors and nuclear reactors and Luke Skywalker's middle name and the ingredients of Cheerios. All in the same sentence!"

or

Craig: "According to Travis, I'm not allowed to eat lettuce or grapes (exploited migrant workers on the West Coast), canned salmon (lousy living conditions for Filipino packers in Alaska), or those little peas that look like green BBs (forced labor in central California - in 1930!). So far, no problem. I mean, he hasn't come down on Junior Mints yet, so I'm okay."

Day 01 - A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)
Day 02 - A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about
Day 03 - The best book you've read in the last 12 months:

Day 05 - A book or series you hate
Day 06 - Favorite book of your favorite series OR your favorite book of all time
Day 07 - Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise
Day 08 - A book everyone should read at least once
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A book that disappointed you
Day 12 - A book or series of books you’ve read more than five times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)
Day 14 - Favorite character in a book (of any sex or gender)
Day 15 - Your "comfort" book
Day 16 - Favorite poem or collection of poetry
Day 17 - Favorite story or collection of stories (short stories, novellas, novelettes, etc.)
Day 18 - Favorite beginning scene in a book
Day 19 - Favorite book cover (bonus points for posting an image!)
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite romantic/sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 22 - Favorite non-sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 23 - Most annoying character ever
Day 24 - Best quote from a novel
Day 25 - Any five books from your "to be read" stack
Day 26 - OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending
Day 27 - If a book contains ______, you will always read it (and a book or books that contain it)!
Day 28 - First favorite book or series obsession
Day 29 - Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
Day 30 - What book are you reading right now?

Comments

[twilight-angel.livejournal.com]

*KERMITFLAILS!* I love love love that book! Like, the first time I read it, when I finished it, I went right back to the beginning and reread it. So awesome! I reread it approximately once a year, and I still love it each time I read it again!

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Me too! This book is like spun sugar - fluffy and sweet. I love the scene where Travis tells Craig and his colleague all about his search for Craig and the girl is all fascinated, totally smitten with the crazy!

[twilight-angel.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's like their combined crazy is catching in the best way. Actually, my roommate got the book first, and then she had the audacity to read aloud various parts until I broke and bought it myself (after stealing her copy and reading it first). Once she read the part where Craig figures out Travis is coming after him because someone broke into his mother's office and organized her Post-Its -- I was sold! <3 <3 <3

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I loved that scene. Loved when Craig's mother wrote to him that she didn't even mention it to the cops because they would think she was nuts.

Or when Craig was all "I hope he didn't try to make an appointment with my mother, I think I forgot to tell him that she was a gynecologist." XD

[twilight-angel.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha-ha, and Travis did make an appointment! The book is all eminently quotable and so awesome, and now that we've been talking about it, I'm going to have to insert it into my "to read" queue for my annual reread of it. What a pity, right?

Or, omg, near the beginning, when Travis asks his students what he should do about finding Craig and going after him, and they give him advice for extra credit! Kills me every time!

[beckytheelf.livejournal.com]

OMG. That book sounds like unbridled cuteness. You recced this to me once, right? MUST. FIND. IT. PRONTOOOOOOOOOO.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

It is, it is! There's a smidgen of angst just to make it even more appealing but overall, it's sweetness pure. A remedy for all that's wrong with the world.