Five More Questions
Dec. 11th, 2022 09:45 amI enjoyed the earlier five questions meme so much that when it rolled around on ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
littlerhymes's journal, I leaped on it with glad cries and got five more questions. Hurrah!
1. Who is one author you would bring back from obscurity and make as famous as Louisa May Alcott?
Oh, this is a hard choice! I’m tempted to say Jean Webster, who is not exactly obscure - Daddy-Long-Legs is still in print - but certainly not as well known as Louisa May Alcott, and I would love to see miniseries adaptations of some of her novels - not just Daddy-Long-Legs but also the Just Patty/When Patty Went to College duology. (Frances Hodgson Burnett is not obscure at all but I would also love to see film adaptations of some of her lesser-known works. Who among us does not wish to see Joan Lowry manifested on the screen!)
However, from true obscurity I would bring back Sara Jeannette Duncan, a Canadian author with a sharp eye and a sharper wit. Her book A Daughter of To-day, about an American girl in bohemian Paris, wrecked me, whereas An American Girl in London is just a romp.
2. What was your favourite album as a teenager and does it hold up?
My very first favorite album in the very youngest days of my teenagerhood was Teen Spirit, by the A*Teens, which was a song called “Firefly” which is probably just a love song that happens to address the love interest as Firefly (“Firefly come back to me/make the night as bright as day/I’ll be looking out for you/tell me that you’re lonely too…”) but I was convinced that the lead singer was addressing a supernatural being or at least an actual firefly, and my best friend Chelsea and I made up a dance which involved holding a tennis ball (its iridescent yellow color representing the firefly) and gazing at it with longing while dancing.
3. Please tell me about your kitty Bramble and something amusing he has done lately.
I don’t know if I’ve written about Bramble on DW yet! At the tail end of July I adopted a black cat, whose shelter name was Panther. I considered Gennady for a time, but his nature was too open and trusting, so I settled on Bramble instead. He loves chasing feather toys and running through his new tunnel and jumping on the counter where he is not supposed to be, but most of all he loves my roommate’s cat Finley, so much that whenever they meet Bramble has to be restrained from playfully bapping Finley, because they are BEST FRIENDS even if Finley doesn’t realize this yet.
4. Have you ever seen a ghost?
I have not! It is probably just as well because I’m sure it would make me jumpy, but it would also be such an Experience that sometimes I wish I would.
5. You are taking a 3 month writing sabbatical in foreign climes. Where do you go?
France! I would spend three months in France. Some of it would be in Paris, of course, but I would also travel all over the country, not just to popular destinations like Normandy and Provence but to the Cevennes, the Camargue (Johns really sold these places in that Worrals book!), the Jura Mountains.
littlerhymes's journal, I leaped on it with glad cries and got five more questions. Hurrah!1. Who is one author you would bring back from obscurity and make as famous as Louisa May Alcott?
Oh, this is a hard choice! I’m tempted to say Jean Webster, who is not exactly obscure - Daddy-Long-Legs is still in print - but certainly not as well known as Louisa May Alcott, and I would love to see miniseries adaptations of some of her novels - not just Daddy-Long-Legs but also the Just Patty/When Patty Went to College duology. (Frances Hodgson Burnett is not obscure at all but I would also love to see film adaptations of some of her lesser-known works. Who among us does not wish to see Joan Lowry manifested on the screen!)
However, from true obscurity I would bring back Sara Jeannette Duncan, a Canadian author with a sharp eye and a sharper wit. Her book A Daughter of To-day, about an American girl in bohemian Paris, wrecked me, whereas An American Girl in London is just a romp.
2. What was your favourite album as a teenager and does it hold up?
My very first favorite album in the very youngest days of my teenagerhood was Teen Spirit, by the A*Teens, which was a song called “Firefly” which is probably just a love song that happens to address the love interest as Firefly (“Firefly come back to me/make the night as bright as day/I’ll be looking out for you/tell me that you’re lonely too…”) but I was convinced that the lead singer was addressing a supernatural being or at least an actual firefly, and my best friend Chelsea and I made up a dance which involved holding a tennis ball (its iridescent yellow color representing the firefly) and gazing at it with longing while dancing.
3. Please tell me about your kitty Bramble and something amusing he has done lately.
I don’t know if I’ve written about Bramble on DW yet! At the tail end of July I adopted a black cat, whose shelter name was Panther. I considered Gennady for a time, but his nature was too open and trusting, so I settled on Bramble instead. He loves chasing feather toys and running through his new tunnel and jumping on the counter where he is not supposed to be, but most of all he loves my roommate’s cat Finley, so much that whenever they meet Bramble has to be restrained from playfully bapping Finley, because they are BEST FRIENDS even if Finley doesn’t realize this yet.
4. Have you ever seen a ghost?
I have not! It is probably just as well because I’m sure it would make me jumpy, but it would also be such an Experience that sometimes I wish I would.
5. You are taking a 3 month writing sabbatical in foreign climes. Where do you go?
France! I would spend three months in France. Some of it would be in Paris, of course, but I would also travel all over the country, not just to popular destinations like Normandy and Provence but to the Cevennes, the Camargue (Johns really sold these places in that Worrals book!), the Jura Mountains.
