The Booker Award goes to "...those who refuse to live in the real world." (That is sooooo me!) To receive this award, the blog must be at least 50% about books (reading or writing is OK). Along with receiving this award, you must also share your top five favorite books. (More than five is OK.) You must give this award to 5-10 other lucky book blogs you adore.
Now, I hate having to narrow down my readerly passions to just five but, as we all know, I'm lazy. So here they be, in alpha order by author's last name:
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Ohmigosh, it's set in an alternative reality in which crimes against literature are avenged by an arse-kicking Brit heroine who winds up leaping into the story of Jane Eyre to take care of business! W00T!)
The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer (How can I not luuurve a book featuring a heroine who stutters and a duel fought over a hat?) (Not by the heroine.) (It wasn't really over a hat, that was just the cover story.) (Ha ha, geddit? Cover story? Hat? A hat covers your head?) (C'mon, that was at least mildly amusing, worthy of a titter, surely?) ~ tied with ~ These Old Shades by the same author (The Duke of Avon = WOOF!)
Howliday Inn by James Howe (The 2nd book in the Bunnicula series. I go back to it to revel in the comfort of simpler days, when everybody and their Aunt Agatha didn't want a piece of me. Plus, it's HIGH-larious, and I just la-la-love Harold and Chester.)
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore (Parce que j'adore le whimsical horror, y'all!) (You may wonder at my use of French and Southern U.S.A. slang in the same sentence. You see, at college, a very learned prof found me attempting to learn some French art song or other, and gave me some pointers on my pronunciation. On the word, "parle," he suggested I drawl like I was from Georgia, and from then on, nearly every time I've spoken my pseudo-French it's been with a southern accent. A really bad one, sure, but still. A girl's gotta amuse herself somehow...)
Right, so—that business sorted, I now present The Booker Award to these groovy gals:
Annalisa Crawford - Wake up, eat, write, sleep
Aurian - boeklogboek
Jackie Felger - Bouquet of Books
Kendra - Flame Writer
Lori - Romancing the Darkside
OK, that's it for me, folks. Thanks for stopping by and y'all come back soon, now, entendez-vous? (You're totally having a go at saying, "entendez-vous" with a Southern accent yourself now, aintcha? Don't try to deny it, I know you are.)
