Under the Canopy: Tagged: Books

My morning was greeted with a comment waiting to be published. Moof just tagged me! Since I’m moody, I do things when I feel good, otherwise, I won’t be happy with what I’m doing. Reading is one of them. A good book needs a good place to read (that’s my bed) and good timing. I can’t read if I’m between deadlines and my moonlighting. Once I hold a book, I have to finish it in a day or two. I don’t want to go back to it when I’m free, no. I’ll lost momentum of the story. I’ll end up asking, what happened before this or where am I? Here we go.

One book that changed your life?

I don’t rely on books to change my life, anyway, if it’s inspiration and drawing strength: Bible, I refer to it from time to time or when I'm low.

One book you have read more than once?

There are many: Bible, Tuesdays with Morrie, Boys from Brazil, The Prophet

One book you would want on a desert island?

If I can take the 5th on this I will …ditto Moof…

One book that made you laugh?

I rely on comics to make me laugh. I’m a sentimental person, I don’t buy funny books. 5th pls?

One book that made you cry?

Too many to list. Ok I remember one: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

One book you wish had been written?

My story …lol. I’ll be working on it when I’m of retirement age. When there’s more time to relax and reflect on one’s life.

One book you wish had never had been written?

Mein Kamph … I agree with the others on this.

One book you are currently reading?

Textbooks! Honestly, I need this for my moonlighting. The last I read was Dan Brown’s Deception Point, Rule of Four and it’s almost 6 months now. With me now is The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature edited by Pat Rogers

One book you have been meaning to read?

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Now tag five people: I find this the hardest part since I don’t know how they’ll react. I hope they won’t take offense.

Miguel : Technophyte (super bz, in hiatus, Peace!)

Dr. Emer : .Parallel Universes.

Senor Enrique : Wish You Were Here

Abdelilah Boukili : Posts to the BBC on Daily Basis

Dana: The Curmudgeon Manifesto

Posted by ipanema on 05 August 2006 at 9:07 AM | Permalink

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Thanks for the tag. This I would need some time and thinking to do :) But I will do it.

Posted by Senor Enrique | 5/8/06 11:47 AM

No worries, it took me 6 hours before I posted my answers. I have to think about the books I've read and most of them, I can't remember.

I was blog hopping while answering Moof's tag. :)

Posted by ipanema | 5/8/06 11:57 AM

Thanks for tagging me. I have often thought about books in ways similar to the quiz. My choices change with my mood and the times. My blog profile lists a few titles from the earliest days of my reading to recent choices. Were I to make the list today, other titles would undoubtedly replace some now there. Fascinating to consider the influence of reading.

Posted by Dana | 5/8/06 4:28 PM

No problem Dana. Same here,according to my moods. We really are Capricorns! :)

Posted by ipanema | 5/8/06 5:03 PM

Thanks for having tagged me. I from time to time have a look at your blog. But in the past week you seem not to have sent any comment to BBC blog.
I hope you find my comments interesting, especially those on recent events taking place in the Middle East in the past weeks,

Posted by Abdelilah Boukili | 5/8/06 10:00 PM

Hi AB, no worries. I try to visit but everything is still so raw. So, I let them voice out their opinions. I've been ranting here about the recent crisis, which sometimes make me feel sick.

Anyway, you have one comment which I particularly like. It's when you compare the kinds of commenters on BBC radio. Some are well versed, others with shallow arguments. I was smiling while reading. How true. Others are incoherent. Perhaps emotions running high.

Kevin Anderson in conspicuously absent. I haven't seen any of his posts.

Thanks for dropping by. I'll take a peek later. :)

Posted by ipanema | 5/8/06 10:32 PM

Oh Ipanema, there was really no way out for you. If Moof hadn't got ya I would have. I love how your mind works and all the interesting things you write of.

Have a great weekend!

Posted by Cathy | 6/8/06 12:14 AM

Yes Cathy, she's going to get either one of us.

Thanks, have a great weekend too!

Posted by ipanema | 6/8/06 3:16 AM

Ipanema,

I was conspicuously absent because I was taking a much needed break. Two weeks driving across Europe with my partner in blogging. We've got 500+ photos to put up on Flickr.

Reading. So much to read. Right now for fun, I'm reading jazz bassist Charles Mingus' autobiography. Very off colur, but I miss jazz. I used to play.

On break, I also caught up on some writing in my good, old-fashioned offline journal on break.

See you online.

Posted by Kevin Anderson | 8/8/06 2:52 AM

Oh! Speaking of the angel...thanks for dropping by Kevin. Think I said it too loud for the whole Europe to hear. I hope it didn't rock the BBC studios. :)

It's good to read that you're having a break. 500+ photos! that's a lot of uploading.

It's nice to know that you play.

Have a rest. Thanks again and see you. :)

Posted by ipanema | 8/8/06 4:47 AM