Friday 5!
1. What are the titles of the last three books you read all of?
Wow, déjà vu? I just wrote about this on Tuesday! The last three books I completed were A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove by Laura Schenone; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver; and Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr.
2. What are the titles of between three and five magazines you subscribe to or used to subscribe to?
Currently I subscribe to Writer’s Digest and Bitch Magazine. (Shout out to Bitch Magazine! It’s a must-read if you love feminist critiques of pop culture.) I used to subscribe to Jane Magazine before I realized that they had become a total parody of themselves. (They folded, anyway, and offered me Glamour or Marie Claire or something in their stead. See what I mean? I declined the offer and collected my whopping $9 check.)
3. What’s on your night table? (we figured this one was borderline, since it involves the bedroom, but if the vibe is right and you preface the question with the background story I told above, you could make it work)
Oh, it’s a very tame question in my case. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (I told you I love reading about food, though I am having trouble getting through this book – I feel like it’s AVM but written in a less warm manner). There’s also a box of Kleenex, my face moisturizer, a couple bobby pins and ponytail holders, and the only necklace I own.
4. What are the three best things that happened to you in the past seven days?
Well, the G20 summit began in my hometown, so I’ve been working from home, which is sweet. I blog for my day job, and one of our posts got picked up on the Wordpress homepage, so we got a ton of hits from that. And a huge box of garlic arrived from Seed Savers. I know that wouldn’t be on most people’s “best things” list, but I’m pretty excited, because it means we will be able to grow our own garlic next year! But it also means a whole lot of physical labor this weekend for my husband and me. Which, come to think of it, we’re desperately in need of, so…works out!
5. What was your senior yearbook quote, and what would your yearbook quote be this year if there were such a thing?
We didn’t have senior yearbook quotes. In fact, I don’t even own a yearbook from the high school I graduated from. I was very jaded about the whole high school thing. Somewhat ironic, I suppose, since now I want to make a living writing about people who are living it.
(Questions via friday5.org.)
