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[rabidsamfan]

fictualities got me going on the five questions meme. If you want to play ask me to ask you five questions. If you just want to comment, that's okay too.

1.If you could come up with a new (or little used) subject category for a children's library, what subject category would that be, and why do you think children should read about it? (It can be a compound category if you'd like, such as "Cheese in literature - Bulgaria - Essays.")

Well, for the middle schoolers it would probably be “Metagaming, theory and application”. (With a couple of titles on when metagaming is appropriate and when it’s cheating.) Or maybe we could call it “rule theory.” I’m probably the only librarian in town who lets them play YuGiOh in the afternoons, but I find that my card players are less noisy than the kids waiting for the computers and a lot quicker to pay attention when I say “the chairs get pushed in and put away or there will be consequences.”

For the younger children I want to be able to look up “Scary (But Not Too Scary)” and “Gross (adjective)” as opposed to “Gross (number)”. Doesn’t matter whether I think they should read those topics or not, they wants them, they does!


2. What street, real or imaginary, would you most like to live on, and why?

Baker Street, as a street Arab, perhaps? But only if I can be one of the Irregulars. Mostly though I’d most like to live some place where the street is a dirt road. (As long as I can get the internet by satellite, anyway!)

3. What's your favorite museum?

Well the Museum of Bad Art is pretty high on the list. And I will always retain a sneaking fondness for the Denver Museum of Natural History, if only for all the summer afternoons I spent wandering around in it as a child. Back in the days when a kid could get in without a grownup attached, anyway. The one I'm most likely to visit these days is the Boston Museum of Science.

4. What character in any of the fandoms you follow has grown on you the most over the time you've been in that fandom?

Hmmm. Snape, maybe, although I started to think he might be more interesting than he seemed about book three. Or Theoden. I didn’t really appreciate Theoden until the movies came out, and now I read for him. He's really quite amazing.

5. What woman in history comes closest to being a personal hero (or heroine) for you?

My mom. No wait, someone historical? Think think think… Elizabeth Kenny. Because it takes a lot of determination to look a bunch of doctors in the eye and say “You’ve been doing this all wrong for centuries.”

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[katakanadian.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Kenny
Who was she? I didn't find her on Wikipedia.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

She drastically changed (improved) physiotherapy for polio victims, and for everyone.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mghslib/projects/stwh11.html

[siouxieq.livejournal.com]

I love the Scary and Gross categories - I think they would work well for any children/teens.

Living on a dirt road has more drawbacks than advantages, I think. - And you have to put your clothesline somewhere that the dust wont reach or wash on a light traffic day!

I'm game to be interviewed, if you want.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's really late, but here are five questions for you.

1. What book (or kind of book) do you reach for when you need to have good dreams?

2. If you could only choose one sense (of the five senses) to keep, which one would it be?

3. What is your earliest memory?

4. Name one accomplishment which you still look back upon with pride or fondness.

5. What non-fiction subjects do you read about and enjoy the most (even if they're for work.)

[siouxieq.livejournal.com]

All answered and posted!!

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! These are terrific. I love the idea of a "Gross" subject header for little kids, and Metagaming seems to hit the older ones right dead center in their interests.

Love the museum of bad art!

And as for Theoden, yes yes yes. In a way his journey is a lot harder than Aragorn's, isn't it? Aragorn is growing into kingship; Theoden has to climb BACK into it. Amazing character.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Theoden is just astounding, really. There's so much he understands which you get the feeling Aragorn has yet to learn. Before the movies I focussed on Eowyn, of all the Rohirrim, but anymore I read and it's Theoden who pulls my heartstrings.

Oh, and the Edward Gorey House has just nudged out MOBA...

[fernwithy.livejournal.com]

I’m probably the only librarian in town who lets them play YuGiOh in the afternoons

Oh, but no YuGiOh crew would be much less fun in life!

For the younger children I want to be able to look up “Scary (But Not Too Scary)” and “Gross (adjective)” as opposed to “Gross (number)”. Doesn’t matter whether I think they should read those topics or not, they wants them, they does!

Heh, yeah. For teenagers, I'd add, "Sappy sentimental faux memoirs," for the same reason.

I'll play, if you want to ask me anything.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Here ya go. (Late, but I had a vacation...)

1. Name two or three books you keep on the shelves because you can always booktalk them to a kid.

2. Is there any question that you're really tired of answering?

3. Where would you go if you won a big enough pot of money for a three month vacation?

4. What is the thing you like best about Boston?

5. If you could afford to live anywhere you wanted to, where would it be?

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I miss the St. Bernard. :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Woof!

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I've always been rather partial to Theoden. I loved the way he was so kind to Merry (and when you read the books for the first time in fourth grade as I did, that makes an impact).

Female heros... hmmm... Closest I'd have to one would've been my assigned mentor in med school - she was the first female pediatric surgeon in the US, and when neuropathic pain from shingles made it impossible for her to operate anymore, she started an intensive study of medical ethics and got a PhD in that field in her 60s. And still gives the occasional lecture.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good person to have written up in a children's biography. I always need more women!

[earendil367.livejournal.com]

Snape. Especially since Book 6, there appears to be more to Snape than thought possible. I wonder whether he is on Voltemort's side or Dumbledore's. Did he kill him to protect Draco?

And Theoden. At first I didn't appreciate Theoden and his decision in battle, but I think you are right, the movies gave him justice.

My favorite museum. Right now, the American History Museum at the National Mall.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oooh, there's lots of fun questions to ask about Snape. F'rinstance, why on earth, if he's on Voldie's side, would he be giving Harry a quick lesson on how to fight a Legilimens as he makes his way out of the grounds?

[kimbys-place.livejournal.com]

I'll play...ask me the five questions. I really like your answers!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Okay... five questions... Let me think...

1. Are there any stories which you reread now that you loved when you were a kid?

2. What kinds of food/drink do you love to smell as they are prepared (even if you don't like the way they taste)?

3. What's the oddest request to come across your desk at work?

4. If a mysterious benefactor told you that you could get for free one single thing out of a mail-order catalog, which catalog would you choose and what item?

5. Which funnies do you like to read in the newspaper or in collections. (or on the net!)