All about meeee!

[holdouttrout]

surreallis asked me five questions a little bit ago, and I'm finally answering them!

1. You're going on a month-long trip to the arctic circle. (Don't question me!) You can take one fictional character along with you. Who is it and why?

Jack O'Neill. Because in about two minutes of our arrival, he'd be bored, and I can think of a few good ways to pass the time. :-)


2. What obscure book/show/media thing do you wish had a fandom?

Hmm. This one's tough, because I feel like everything I love has a fandom--just not always the fandom *I* want. I guess I'd have to say So You Want to Be a Wizard, just because it's YA and so the fandom skews younger, even though I've met plenty of older people that love it. I just kinda want fic about them when they're grown up more and Seniors and dealing with life stuff. I'm actually sure it exists somewhere, but I've never dug enough to find it.


3. What is your favorite fast food?

I have a weakness for McDonald's breakfasts. I know, I know. Other than that, I really like variety..


4. What do you love best about the city you live in?

I love how much green space we have, and how it's so... green. *g* I also love that people here care and think about the impact they're making. It doesn't mean we get it right, but we try. Sometimes.


5. What is one thing you'd like me to know about you?

hmm... One of the things I like most about myself is that I am very self-reflective. I like to think about my interactions with people, and how I could manage them more effectively while also feeling better about how I treat people. However, it's also one of the things I like least about myself, because 1) I feel like it's a little bit dull and narcissistic*, and 2) because I wish my interactions were more effortless.


*"What did you do today?" "Oh, just sat around and thought about myself."

Comments

[jemster.livejournal.com]

Jack O'Neill. Because in about two minutes of our arrival, he'd be bored, and I can think of a few good ways to pass the time. :-)

What would you two talk about? How much he loves and misses Sam? How he can't wait to get back to her? ;-)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

hee hee hee! Of course! 0:-)

[jemster.livejournal.com]

Thought so. ;-)

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

I'd want to be stranded with Jack, too, but more because I think he'd be able to get me out of there! And then when we got back somewhere warmer, that might be a good time for other things....

I never wanted a fandom for So You Want to Be a Wizard, but I did enjoy the book, though the one that followed it, Deep Wizardry, is better and my favorite of that series. And there is a whole series of those books, which takes them thru a lot of life experiences. Check it out at amazon.com, under Diane Duane. I think she may have a blog and there are other related things, though it's been awhile since I looked at any of it, so I'm not sure. One of the early books, High Wizardry, I didn't care for at all since it was about her little sister and computers, neither of which held much interest for me.

I kept up with them when I was a librarian, as it was a series I recced a lot, but I've been "out of the business" for 8 years now, so I'm not at all current on that. I also remember the author as a Star Trek author (some of the books and maybe even one tv episode, though I don't recall if it was TNG or another of the later series.)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read the whole series--and I think Deep Wizardry is my favorite, too.

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

I thought that some of the later books, the characters were older, maybe later in high school? Though as I said, it's been quite awhile since I thought of them, so I really don't remember. I thought the one set in Ireland, there was some flirting/opposite sex attraction, maybe? But if you've read them all, you'd know. I've read them up till I quit working, in 2003, I don't know if there have been any since then.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

General info about the series is housed at:

http://www.youngwizards.com

The discussion forums are at:

http://www.youngwizards.com/forums

Meanwhile I've got 50 novels or so under my belt... as well as some TV and film. Info on all that it at:

http://www.dianeduane.com

And my main weblog is at: http://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit

(Though it mirrors to LJ at http://dduane.livejournal.com)

Best! D. :)

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

Wow, the actual author, that's a big surprise!

I just checked into some of the links, and then my personal library's bookshelves. As a former librarian, I did not buy books except when I liked them enough to want to reread. (No sense in buying what you can check out for free.) I have the Wizard books up thru the 2002 title, A Wizard Alone.

I remember the Wizard's Dilemma particularly, as I had a young library patron, with 2 kids and a new baby, who found out she had liver cancer. Heartbreaking. The next year, as she battled it (losing her life just around Easter time), I baked brownies for the family, picked out good books for all of them, and ached along with them, especially the little kids.

Her older boy was about 8 or 9 when she died, but very smart and so I bought the early Wizard books in paperback, as well as Dilemma, and gave them to him and talked with him about them, not knowing how often I'd see him again (it was Jenny who made sure the kids got to the library). Unfortunately, I rarely saw the kids after that, and then about a year later, I quit my job after 30 mostly good years, due to a horrible new boss. I've heard about him from other friends there, and he's wanting to be a surgeon and has written a novel. He just graduated from high school, so I hope he'll do well and I hope the books helped him somewhat.

Looking at my Star Trek book case, I have only a few books left, there (2 shelves), after a lot of years of Star Trek collecting, then winnowing down to only "the best", as I was a big ST fan for 15 years, then the love gradually diminished into more of a fond affection. But your My Enemy, My Ally is there, as is Wounded Sky (I hate spiders, but I loved your glass spider!)

Thanks for many hours of good reading over the years!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links!