Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and it features top ten lists of various topics.
So, I really couldn’t come up with ten bookish memories so I just stuck to the nice number that is five. Don’t know if they really fit but here they are:
1) Dead Poet’s
Christmas
Maybe this is a little outside the box of this category
but it is one of my favorite bookish memories. The English club I was in at my
college put on an event called the Dead Poet’s Christmas. It was where some
English professors dressed up like famous authors (Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Hans
Christian Anderson, ect) and they would read some of that authors work. I was
in a dreamland hearing “Jane Austen” read from Pride and Prejudice (and then the same scene from Pride, Prejudice and Zombies), and “Charles
Dickens” reading from a Christmas Carol with
The Ghost of Christmas Present right next to him (actually, Dickens was one of
my female professors.lol). It was the perfect night.
2) Winning a
book t-shirt from an author on my birthday
Okay, so it was the night before my birthday that I
got the e-mail but it totally made my day winning a t-shirt for one of my most
anticipated reads (Scarlet by A.C.
Gaughen). Then later the next month I actually won an autographed copy of the
book! The author put in different notes throughout it about her favorite parts,
what she was thinking when she wrote it, or little bit of history. The best
part is that I totally loved the book and went all fangirl when reading it. It
was very cool!
3) Standing in
line for Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hollows
2007 was a very Harry
Potter summer for me. It was the first time I had read any of the books or
seen any of the movies (I was 18). I waited in line at B&N for hours
waiting for my very own copy of the last book (first and only time I waited in
line for a book release). That summer I also went to a Harry Potter movie marathon and saw movies 1-4 and then the 5th
one at midnight. That was a great summer.
4) Listening
to an audiobook with my sister
I don’t listen to audiobooks that often but for some
reason I checked out The Gathering by
Kelley Armstrong on audiobook from my library. One day when we were cleaning,
my sister and I put it on and started listening to it. For the next few days,
we would just sit together and listen to this audiobook while knitting or cleaning
or resting and it was just really cool being able to experience the book at the
same time. No one had to keep their mouth shut for fear of giving a spoiler.lol
5) The Library
Booksale
The library booksale is something I look forward to
every spring and fall. It’s where I buy the majority of my books. Our county
has one giant sale that lasts for a week. My family goes to the preview sale
every time, then once during the week, at the ½ price sale on Saturday, and then
on bag day ($1 to $5 a bag) on Sunday. Last fall I think I came out of it with
50-60 books or more (most books were $0.50 to $1). It was a good sale!
