November 29th birthday MEME
This is too much fun to pass up. :) I, very sadly, have never liked Louisa May Alcott's books. I get bogged down before they get good (as I am certain they do) and have never finished one. Yes, I know, I'm awful. I intend to read Little Women someday. I will just need some extra determination and fortitude to manage it... ;-)
The November 29 ALL Meme
(Louisa May Alcott, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle)
Answer for one, both, or all authors.
1. What was the first [Alcott, Lewis, L’Engle] book you read?
C.S. Lewis -
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. My Uncle bought the book for me when I was very little - 2nd or 3rd grade, and it sat on a shelf for a year or two before I finally picked it up. It was then another few years (until 7th grade) that I finally reread it and then HAD to go out and buy the rest of the series that day. I then proceeded to finish them all within a week. At least, that's how it felt. And I'm not at all ashamed to say that I bawled my eyes out the first time I read The Last Battle. :-)
A Wrinkle in Time. It was an assigned reading in 7th grade English, just a week or two before our family moved states. I really loved that book, which might explain why I finished reading it, even though I was never tested over the material.
2. If you could be a [Alcott, Lewis, L’Engle] character for a day, who would you be?
I always wanted to be Susan Pevensie, only to get things right in the end.
I also felt like I most resembled Meg Murry in real life. I liked how she turned out in the end, too.
3. Do you prefer [Alcott?, Lewis, L’Engle]’s fiction or nonfiction?
Lewis: Ooh, that's hard. I have to say both. I adore the Narnia books, but I love books like Mere Christianity to bits.
L’Engle: Fiction.
4. Which [Alcott, Lewis, L’Engle] book would you recommend to any reader?
Lewis: Everything he wrote. Most especially Mere Christianity (a book I think all Christians should read) and The Chronicles of Narnia.
L'Engle: Many Waters. I don't really hear much about that book anywhere, but I rather liked it.
5. Which [Alcott, Lewis, L’Engle] book did you dislike?
I never finished an Alcott book. I'm bad. :-( I never could get into C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, although it wasn't bad. And, while I do like the book, A Wind in the Door seemed to be lacking something the rest of her Murry family series had.
6. What is your favorite [Alcott, Lewis, L’Engle] quote?
I have two C.S. Lewis quotes in my email signature:
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
7. Which [Alcott, Lewis, L’Engle] book would you like to read next?
I have yet to read Lewis' The Four Loves.
8. What biography of [Alcott, Lewis, L’Engle] would you recommend?
Honestly, I have no idea.
9. Rate the ALL authors by order of preference.
Lewis
L’Engle
Alcott
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Oh, good, you found this meme. I saw it at a blog I know you don't read, and instantly thought of you. :-)
I like the Lewis quotes. C.S. Lewis is the most quotable author I know.