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Rule 2: answer the questions the person who tagged you has written and write 11 new ones.
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1. Your favourite fairytale and nursery rhyme. I love (love love love) George MacDonald's The Light Princess. Does that count? It's not as old as Grimm or Anderson, but it's still a fairy tale, right?
2. You’re organising a dinner party and you can invite seven people, dead or alive. Who do you choose? WHAT. Okay, breath. I'll go with people who I don't just admire, but who I'd actually be able to talk to (prolly) over dinner. First of all, Agatha Christie. (I recently read her autobiography and she is me and I am her. Seriously.*) Second - Jack Lewis. Definitely. Third - George Washington Carver. Fourth - J.R.R. Tolkien. Fifth - Emily Dickinson. Sixth - Adam Young. Seventh - Corrie ten Boom.
Only one not-dead person. Why am I not surprised.
3. The book that influenced you the most as a child. The Horse and His Boy, along with The Ordinary Princess; the former gave me a taste for adventure, the latter showed me that reading wasn't so very hard after all. (As most of you know, I've always been homeschooled; my mum found it quite easy to teach my older sister, who learns in much the same way as she, and was reading independently by age five. I, however, am pretty nearly the opposite of my mother, and for a while she couldn't figure out how to get to me; it got to the point where I'd insist in tears that I didn't want to learn how to read - I thought, I suppose, that I must be stupid and inept since I was already six and couldn't read, something that obviously came as easily as breath to my sister. My mum persevered of course, and found the way to teach me - and The Ordinary Princess was the first book I read on my own, at age seven.)
4. Sunny days or rainy days? Depends. If I feel like doing something, if I'm in an OUT THERE THERE'S A WORLD OUTSIDE OF YONKERS mood, I prefer sunny days ("sunny" not "warm" - there still has to be a cool breeze, and the humidity under 60%); but this happens pretty rarely. I like cool, rainy days, when I can put on some Vivaldi and curl up with a book. Which also happens rarely. This is why I stay inside. Viva la tumblr!
5. The hardest thing you had to do last year. Erm, probably talking to one of our pastors about my parents' divorce. I'm not very good at expressing my feelings, especially in person, especially to near-strangers.
6. Choose one: ‘angel’ style wings, a magic carpet, or free flying like Peter Pan? Free flying all the way!
7. An experience that made you feel really alive (whoo hipster style questions) Is it sad that I really can't think of anything?
8. Your ideal music festival lineup. Erm. Never been to one so I don't know how these things work?? But some of my favorite artists/bands are Adam Young, Evan Wickham, Francesca Battistelli, and Tenth Avenue North. I don't know. I think I'd rather go to a symphonic concert, or see a musical.
9. Your life is a musical - what is your big solo song called? "Sad is Happy for Deep People," and there would be a non-solo featuring my family, "Why Doesn't Anyone Tell Me Anything (Books Have Addled Her Brain)."
10. You can pull any character from any book, film or tv show out of their world and into your own - who do you choose? Hmm. Well, maybe one of the characters from Game of Thrones?? I only know what I've seen around tumblr, but they all seem pretty miserable, so. I wouldn't want to pull just anyone out of their proper sphere, I think.
11.Would you rather be one of Robin Hood’s Merry Men or one of King Arthur’s Knights? Merry Men, definitely. The Knights of the Round Table are always getting into trouble, like killing the wrong person or getting married accidentally-on-purpose. And Robin's dudes are merry!
* Bonus Agatha Christie story: Once when she was already all successful and a Name and everything, she arrived alone at some special event in her honor, and was turned away at the door. So she wandered the halls not knowing what to do and miserable until someone came and rescued her. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME. (Not the "special event in her honor" part, but the being turned away from a place that you're supposed to be and ending up wandering around just in sight of deliverance, crying on the inside part)
Okay now my questions!
1) What is the most exhausting book you've ever read? Why? 2) If I were a rich lad/lass, I would ______. 3) Your life is a musical - what is your big solo song called? (I'm stealing this from wegotelegance because I love it.) 4) Best childhood song? 5) What makes you like someone? (I don't mean "like" romantically speaking; rather, what makes you decide, "Hey, this here personage is pretty spiffy - I like 'em.") 6) A book you thought you'd like but didn't. 7) A book you thought you wouldn't like but did. 8) One person from history who inspires you. 9) Something that makes you feel better when you're ill. 10) One thing about life which was better than expected. 11) A song or piece of music that moves you.
Sorry, fresh out of creative questions.