{"id":5661,"date":"2011-03-03T15:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:31:31","slug":"on-world-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"On World Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, apparently, is World Book Day<\/a>, and in commemoration of that, there’s a meme that’s making its way ’round the blogosphere.<\/p>\n

The book I am reading:<\/b> Currently in the bag I carry to and from work, The Hunger Games<\/i> by Suzanne Collins. This was recommended to me by a friend at Farpoint.<\/p>\n

The book I am writing:<\/b> It’s about some high schoolers and their adventures. I’m not working on it very quickly, but someday I’ll be done with it.<\/p>\n

The book I love most:<\/b> The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/i>, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<\/p>\n

The last book I received as a gift:<\/b> I don’t usually get books as gifts, because I usually buy for myself what I want to read. The last book I can remember receiving as a gift is LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary<\/i>, given to me Christmas 2009 by my sister and brother-in-law. <\/p>\n

The last book I gave as a gift:<\/b> I know who it went<\/i> to, but I don’t remember what it was<\/i>. What was in that package I sent out for Christmas? Oh! Thomas the Rhymer<\/i> by Ellen Kushner.<\/p>\n

The nearest book on my desk:<\/b> On<\/i> the desk, Ambrose Bierce’s Write It Write<\/i>. (I keep several writing stylebooks at the office, including the AP Stylebook and Fowler’s. Bierce, actually, happens to be sitting on top of the “style pile.) Above<\/i> the desk (in other words, on top of my cubicle), the aforementioned LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary<\/i>. Below<\/i> the desk (in other words, atop my computer tower), The I Ching: Plain and Simple<\/i> by Stephen Karcher. (This is actually the book closest at hand, much<\/i> closer than the Bierce.)<\/p>\n

Thus endeth the meme-age!<\/p>\n

Spend World Book Day today with<\/i> a book. Hug a book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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