TV Meme: Day 1

[hsapiens]

I'm seeing this television meme ALL OVER my f-list. I've been resisting since I have the whole, "how can I only choose one?!?" thing going on. I don't tend to be an -est kind of girl so much as shades of gray kind of girl. But I want to play along, too!

Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled:


Firefly. Is there any other answer?? In fact, does anyone need it explained? It's Joss Whedon. It's a great ensemble cast. Fox are idiots.

Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching:
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season):
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever:
Day 05 - A show you hate:
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show:
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show:
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch:
Day 09 - Best scene ever:
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving:
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you:
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times:
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show:
Day 14 - Favorite male character:
Day 15 - Favorite female character:
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show:
Day 17 - Favorite mini series:
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence:
Day 19 - Best TV show cast:
Day 20 - Favorite kiss:
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Moving here so I can read the comments. :)

What are some of your favorite books? In fiction I loved The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and Madeleine's ghost, by Robert Giradi. In nonfiction, I tend to favor history, especially British history. I'll read anything by Alison Weir or Antonia Fraser.

Fiction: Anything by Amy Tan. Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. The Iliad. Pride & Prejudice. Elizabeth Peters's Vicky Bliss series. (I like some of her Amelia Peabody series, too, but it has lost my interest.) Animal Farm. The Aeneid. The Once & Future King. The John Ciardi translation of The Inferno. The Mists of Avalon. The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin. Most anything by Tony Hillerman. Lord of the Rings. Lysistrata & The Birds by Aristophanes. Soulless by Gail Carriger is a new book that I enjoyed. For fluff I read Carol Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler novels, Evanovich, Hiaasan, Aaron Elkins (though his books have become travelogues and I'm less excited now), J.D. Robb, and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series.

I'm obviously an escapist who loves her genre fic. I hate listing things because I KNOW I'm forgetting some really important books.

Non-Fiction: The Woman That Never Evolved by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. I love that book SO HARD. I have read it probably 5 or 6 times, which is amazing because it's very dense prose. The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. Most books by Stephen J. Gould, even if he was sort of a dick. Several lab manuals for bone classes I took. (I know, that's weird.) Edith Hamilton's Mythology. I tend to read biology and/or science-y magazines if I'm going to read non-fiction. I prefer to get my non-fiction on t.v., which is actually the bulk of my television viewing.

Cookbooks (yes, it's an entire genre for me): The Vegetarian Epicure Vols. 1 & 2 changed my life. Previously, being a vegetarian was all about what I didn't eat and those books opened my eyes to a new way of thinking. The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book. The Veganomicon.

It's funny that you bring up Alison Weir. I recently bought a copy of her Six Wives of Henry VIII because I'd read a borrowed copy years ago and watching The Tudors made me want to pick it up again. On a whim I also ordered a collection of three of Jean Plaidy's novels, entitled "Katharine of Aragon," but haven't gotten around to reading it.

[luvmax1.livejournal.com]

I love Amy Tan. And Edith Hamilton's Mythology, one of my oldest and most favorite books. I became obsessed with Greek mythology when I was a kid, and I never really let it go.

Alison Weir writes wonderful historical books, especially her Tudor related works. Jean Plaidy is alright, not fantastic, but readable. I read her Katharine of Aragon novel years and years ago, and it wasn't terrible or anything, but she's really not my favorite writer. For Tudor related fiction, I tend to prefer Philippa Gregory. The Other Boleyn girl was the first Tudor related book I ever read, fact or fiction, and it started my love for english history. Margaret George is pretty good with historical fiction, as well. She has "autobiographies" of Henry VII and Mary, Queen of Scots, and a really excellent one about Cleopatra.

I'm not a big sci fi/fantasy reader, even though I love TV and movies in the genre. One of ones I did love, though, was Sherri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country. Brilliant book, all about gender and equality.