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mauvecardigans) wrote2025-05-02 09:39 pm
mauvecardigans) wrote2025-05-02 09:39 pm
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Friday Five
1. What is your all time favorite book?
Stephen King's Bag of Bones. I don't know if I just read it at the right time or what, but it stayed with me -- which seems appropriate for a book about memories and hauntings. I revisit it every few years.
2. What is your all time favorite movie?
This is much harder because it cycles around based on my mood and I have a bunch of movies I'm down to watch at all times. I was going to list the usual suspects here, but my memory decided to take a powder. Let me see. The Back to the Future trilogy is in there. The Philadelphia Story's there. Singin' in the Rain, Arsenic and Old Lace, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Amadeus, The Conjuring series (not including extras like Annabelle or The Nun)... Hm. There's more. Oh, I just watched The Music Man for the umpteenth time last night. That's in there, too.
3. What are you reading right now?
So here's the thing: I was always reading for the first, like, 17 years of my life. Always carried a book around with me, absolutely everywhere. It was 50% of the reason I carried a purse (the other 50% was to have a notebook handy for writing). Then college happened. Then, reading became intertwined with guilt. I wasn't doing the class readings (which is a discussion for another time), and I couldn't read for fun because, if I was doing that, I could just as easily (false) do the assigned reading. And that feeling just seeped right in, took root, and like some bizarre mint-ivy lovechild, no matter how much careful weeding I do, no matter how many plants I dig up, it remains. The proverbial cockroach in the nuclear apocalypse.
That being said, I do still read. I just don't always read quickly or to completion. (Even my beloved Bag of Bones is occasionally a partial re-read -- just enough to visit and reinvigorate those sunflowers in my soul.) So my to-read pile is excessive, and my current reads are Richard Matheson's Bid Time Return (begun in June of last year; in my defense, I know how this one ends) and Alfred E. Young's Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (begun in February; I sort of know how this one ends too, I suppose).
4. What is your favorite show on TV?
The only show that's currently on that I have any kind of interest in whatsoever is 911 (although that may soon no longer be the case). Other shows I love include M*A*S*H, Cobra Kai (too bad it ended after season 5), Prodigal Son, Forever, The West Wing, and -- for better or worse -- Supernatural and Smallville.
5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?
Oh, man. Probably Barbie? I think it was Barbie. Got a whole bunch of stuff coming out this year that I want to make a point of seeing in theaters, though!
Stephen King's Bag of Bones. I don't know if I just read it at the right time or what, but it stayed with me -- which seems appropriate for a book about memories and hauntings. I revisit it every few years.
2. What is your all time favorite movie?
This is much harder because it cycles around based on my mood and I have a bunch of movies I'm down to watch at all times. I was going to list the usual suspects here, but my memory decided to take a powder. Let me see. The Back to the Future trilogy is in there. The Philadelphia Story's there. Singin' in the Rain, Arsenic and Old Lace, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Amadeus, The Conjuring series (not including extras like Annabelle or The Nun)... Hm. There's more. Oh, I just watched The Music Man for the umpteenth time last night. That's in there, too.
3. What are you reading right now?
So here's the thing: I was always reading for the first, like, 17 years of my life. Always carried a book around with me, absolutely everywhere. It was 50% of the reason I carried a purse (the other 50% was to have a notebook handy for writing). Then college happened. Then, reading became intertwined with guilt. I wasn't doing the class readings (which is a discussion for another time), and I couldn't read for fun because, if I was doing that, I could just as easily (false) do the assigned reading. And that feeling just seeped right in, took root, and like some bizarre mint-ivy lovechild, no matter how much careful weeding I do, no matter how many plants I dig up, it remains. The proverbial cockroach in the nuclear apocalypse.
That being said, I do still read. I just don't always read quickly or to completion. (Even my beloved Bag of Bones is occasionally a partial re-read -- just enough to visit and reinvigorate those sunflowers in my soul.) So my to-read pile is excessive, and my current reads are Richard Matheson's Bid Time Return (begun in June of last year; in my defense, I know how this one ends) and Alfred E. Young's Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (begun in February; I sort of know how this one ends too, I suppose).
4. What is your favorite show on TV?
The only show that's currently on that I have any kind of interest in whatsoever is 911 (although that may soon no longer be the case). Other shows I love include M*A*S*H, Cobra Kai (too bad it ended after season 5), Prodigal Son, Forever, The West Wing, and -- for better or worse -- Supernatural and Smallville.
5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?
Oh, man. Probably Barbie? I think it was Barbie. Got a whole bunch of stuff coming out this year that I want to make a point of seeing in theaters, though!