Made up my own survey about reading and language.

[serene]

It's short, but not very fluffy. I'll put my answers in a comment so that you can cut and paste this if you want to use it for your own answers:

1. Describe the first (or an early) phrase/idiom you remember figuring out the meaning to.

2. What is the first thing you remember reading for pleasure?

3. (Especially for porcinea) Do you consider yourself "a reader"? If not, how would you describe your relationship to books and literature at the current time?

4. What's the book (story/play/whatever) you've re-read the most often? What is it about that piece of literature that excites you the most?

5. If you suddenly woke up tomorrow with the writing talent and motivation to write anything you put your hand to, what kind of work would you start churning out?

6. Tell about the person in your life, if any, who most influenced your feelings about language and reading.

7. What are you reading right now? And do you recommend it/them?

Comments

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I *know*! My commune-mates' kid and I went through my old Childcraft Make & Do volume and made lots of stuff, from doll furniture to a big submarine made out of packing boxes. The book still has gray paint on it from the submarine, and I love it.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just made Goose pull out the Make & Do (no. 11) because we've recently started buying cans of juice with our WIC coupons. So I've got four empty 46oz metal cans to turn in to two pairs of stilts. One for Goose (the pink grapefruit cans of course) and one for Pirate (the greenish Apple-Grape juice cans.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

What year is your set? I think mine is copyright 1962 or 1965, but I'd have to pull it out to see.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Copyright 1972. Grandmum bought them for my oldest sister. I'm the one with kids so I 'approriated' them from my father's house. He wasn't very happy about it. *shrug* Oh well, I don't care that he doesn't like me or my Mom anymore. As long as we can get our stuff, like the Childcrafts, out of his house before it implodes on him.Uhm, sorry for the rant. It spills out too often.