If your life was a book genre, what would it be?
Good question! I suspect I’d be a small magazine article on the joys of brown shoes. Very boring but of intense interest to a small percentage of the world’s population.
What villain from a book do you most identify with?
There was one book, Edge of Danger, by Jack Higgins where I found the badguys more appealing because they had a code of honor and justice and family that the supposed good guys didn’t. It was not a pleasant read for me.
What protagonist are you most similar to?
Luke Skywalker, naive farmboy extraordinaire who saved us all with Star Wars.
What book did you connect with in the past that you no longer do?
Sadly, a whole series springs to mind. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in 2007 I was reading a manga series called “Oh My Goddess!” When I restarted the series in 2017 with Wrong Number, I simply couldn’t stomach it anymore. OMG! and I had parted ways.
What recent book read would you love to be a character in?
Blandings Castle books. I’d love to be a rich millionaire loafing around!
How do your reading habits show off your personality?
I read what I want, stop reading what I don’t want to, and don’t listen to “hype” or “buzz”.
What book taught you something about yourself?
The Five Love Languages. One of the most helpful books in understanding myself and understanding others that I have ever read.
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Brilliant read. I think I might give that love book a chance.
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While I know that not every book will change every persons life, the 5 Love Languages has impacted my life greatly. It’s a great tool in my toolbox of trying to deal with people, and I need all the help I can get, hahahaa 🙂
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Having a hard time seeing you ever getting into Oh My Goddess!
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From my teens until well into my 30’s, I was an incurable Romantic. Now that I’ve got the girl and a decent job, I can simply be grumpy old me 😀
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Watch out for that. You only get grumpier from here.
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Waaaaaaay ahead of you there bro. I’m already practicing to be the Church Grump 😉
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What, nothing about Aku-Sikov and the Dragons of Nebula 7? Where’s that side of you?
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That slice of genre, while still big, has shrunk quite a LOT in the last couple of years in my life.
Plus all the recent books in that genre tend to be long winded 1000+ page tomes with so much filler than even Dickens would blush in shame…
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Your reading preferences don’t make a curmudgeon, but rather a discerning reader with no time to waste on books you don’t like! 😉
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Very true!
Now if only people would just read what I tell them too 😉
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5 love languages seems excessive. 😉
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How different are people? I’d say we’re lucky these folks narrowed it down to just 5 😀
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My wife is not on that spectrum of languages. Her “language ” is thoughtfulness.
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How does it manifest?
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It manifests as a lot of work for me. lol. It’s not enough to do something. I have to have clearly thought about it also.
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I’m trying to put this together somehow, with you being Luke Skywalker AND a character from PG Wodehouse. This could be interesting. 🤔
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Hahahahaa. Yeah, that’s quite a wide difference to stuff into one person isn’t it? 😀
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So, let me get this straight, you’re an old and grumpy Luke Skywalker who somehow survived to old age and now tries to shoot everyone from his castle window? 😀
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Wow.
That is impressive! and yes, that is my ultimate goal 😀
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I love the picture on the cover of Blandings Castle. And I love that even curmudgeons have a love language (I assume).
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Everyone has a love language. Some people just find theirs easier than others 🙂
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I remember how saddening it was for you to realize Oh My Goddess just wasn’t for you anymore.
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Yeah, that was one of those unfun grown up moments. I hope to repeat as few of those as possible…
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