Friday Five

[mamajoan]

As always, from www.fridayfive.org. And on one of my favorite topics -- reading! :)

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
Science fiction. (Edit: Oops, they meant format, not genre. Well, novel, then.)

2. What is your favorite novel?
I have to pick one?! Well, obviously it changes with my mood, but for today I'll say Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. It rules. Plus it's set in Boston, which I love. :)

3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)
I'm very fond of this sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay:

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply.
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before.
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.

4. What is one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?
I'd love to have time to reread all the plays of Shakespeare, or at least all the comedies.

5. What are you currently reading?
I almost always have several books being read at the same time, and right now I'm working on Blinded by the Right by David Brock, Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson, Blue Moon Rising by Simon Green, and rereading Humans by Donald Westlake.

Comments

[thete1.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that's one of my favorite poems, too. It's funny, I was never much of a poetry reader before I got into fandom, and I'm still not, but suddenly I have this file of favored poesy.