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Thursday, August 9

Branching out

In this post: Booking Through Thursday and Thursday Thirteen


Amy asks:
Name a book you love in a genre you normally don’t care for. What made you decide to read it? Did it make you want to try more in that genre?

Harry Potter, and I ended up reading all seven books in the series. Broomsticks and cauldrons, wands and potions, what in the name of Merlin's beard are they?.... I recall my own snigger at these things; look up my book shelf where the books are lovingly piled, and think of telling the sister-in-law how she influenced me to read HP.

Because I'm sure she has no idea what she's done. She was holding a wineglass in one hand and HP2 in the other over a meal during one family get-together. The cover I saw was of Harry dangling from the flying car above the Yorkshire Moors. I wouldn't have been curious if she was a ninth grader, but she's a medical doctor. Okay, she's a globe trotter too so maybe it was a book she did not finish from some trans-atlantic flight, but what business would a decent dermatologist have with petrificus totalus or wingardium leviosa?

That got my nostrils on the magical pages of HP for long, delightful hours and almost tempted me to steal a chapter or two at work. Curiosity could have killed the cat.

Bookish Sarah asks an interesting assortment of questions:
What genre do you avoid reading and why?

Erotica and dark fantasy (some call it a sub-genre) - I don't last long in these genres. I get bored easily and then I go particular with money value.

Thursday Thirteen: I write like...

A haiku poet invited me to join his haiku meme. I went strolling around his site, and found a charmingly interesting widget that says he writes like Charles Dickens. There was a link so I hopped over there, and as I'm no writer, you could imagine what fun I got out of checking

"which famous writer I write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers."

Here we go ---

1. As I’m someone who still loves having traditional books around, I say that’s the spirit! ~ E-books v. printed books, and whether a Kindle loaded with a thousand books would weigh heavier than one with only a hundred books.




 

2 Utmost love most pure / divinely capable of / crimson sacrifice ~ Love at Calvary (an Easter haiku)



I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

3 In Hua Hin Hills visitors can tour vineyards in a way you normally can’t in Burgundy or Tuscany: riding on an elephant. Vineyards of Thailand

I write like
William Gibson

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!





4. Built in world war two / the Spanish house stood / along the road /
Capiz shells made up its windows... / Out came “yakan, yaweh…” ~ Casa Embrujada, a free verse written for Halloween




I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

5 It miffed my mother who was worried it was senility progressing... she sways her hips to imaginary music. ~ Waltzing Rosario, about my waltz-loving Grandma



I write like
Margaret Mitchell

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

6. I’ll pass those up.... My money is getting spent on time-tested quality entertainment – ballet and opera. ~ on Lady Gaga's Bad Bangkok Romance




I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

7 Those nights of Wuthering Heights chain-smoking til 3 a.m.... and as enigmatic as Enigma. ~ reminiscing Mea Culpa



I write like
Stephenie Meyer

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

8 Just when I was about to send it over, I realized that if I were offered a place, the very topic I built a case on would send me back to Thailand for data-gathering. ~ Austenuating Jane Austen



I write like
Cory Doctorow

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

9 “A quality haiku. Just the right amount of zest” says a published UK novelist/poet of my first attempt at a meme called Haiku Heights. ~ Pirouette



I write like
Chuck Palahniuk

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

10 He congratulated her for passing some national exam. They bumped into each other at the luncheon that followed... ~ Christmas without you



I write like
Vladimir Nabokov

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

11 "Austenuating a fire in my head" - an old tagline





I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

12 If it’s made by Shangri-la and no other I’d actually eat it. This one looks like a throat clogger. I won’t take the risk. ~ on being shown a hideous fruit cake and asked if I would eat it



I write like
Margaret Atwood

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

13 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a blogger in possession of a Jane Austen addiction must be in want of more Jane Austen adaptations. Now isn't this obvious?



I write like
Jane Austen

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!




 

HAPPY THURSDAY MY FRIENDS :)


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9 comments:

  1. I've also read the full set of Harry Potter and Dan Brown books and also Sydney Sheldon.

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  2. Oh, I like this "I write like..."site. Thanks for sharing.



    http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2012/08/thirteenor-fourteen-summer-reads.html

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  3. I agree that dark fantasy is very unappealing to me...here' sMY THURSDAY MEMES POST

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  4. I don't like horror or science fiction.

    http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/08/booking-through-thursday_9.html

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  5. i am into book reading too, i have accumulated several balikbayan boxes full of books and still continue to buy books i find worth reading, my youngest son is also a bookworm like me, maybe the reason why we have poor eyesight ahaha

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  6. Ah Harriet, you remember. Those were the good, old blogging days :)

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  7. im thrilled! you must have had a library full of great books/authors with you. and i really admire at how you write.

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  8. HP is my absolute favorite + at the rate i am going, will soon be my little man's fave, too! :) there is really something special about the way JK Rowling wrote her book, it's as if i can almost smell the Hogwart's air whenever I have my nose burrowed in one of her pages!

    I love this widget thing, but didn't you notice the result changes each time you put another writing sample? not that consistent, I guess!

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  9. And that's what makes the fun element to it hard to miss :)

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