6 posts tagged “books”

If you were stranded on an island, what five books would you bring?

submitted by CJP

Well, I'd prefer to take 5 books I hadn't read yet. That would certainly help pass the time!

But if it's my 5 most re-readable books, then these would be it.

1. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
2. Dirk Gently's Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
3. One of the Georgette Heyer novels.. don't ask me which one. I usually pick them at random.
4. Harry Potter (ok,ok they're addctive)
5. The Eyre Affair.

Why do you blog?

Act of Treason

Vince Flynn

Submitted by littleduckling.

Right now I'm blogging to distract me from the mountain of study I need to do.

In other news, I got a free book in the mail today. It's not my usual genre, but I'll probably give it a go. Either that or it will go straight to the bookcrossing pile..

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize

Peter Doherty

I have been tagged for the Random Book Meme.

Here are the rules:

1. Grab your nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.

5. Tag 5 different people.

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"A leading scientist in the LCMV field, Michael Oldstone from the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, had published the results of some collaborative experiments with Hugh McDevitt and Graham Mitchell, one of Jacques Miller's graduate students who was then working with McDevitt at Stanford. Their paper suggested the possibility of an H2-related 'Ir gene effect' in the LCMV immunopathlogy model. We decided to follow up this idea with our CTL assay, and got hold of a couple of H2 different mouse strains that were being used for graft rejection studies."

Doherty, P 2005, "The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize", The Miegunyah Press, page 123

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I tag Zenophran, strawberriedoll, Taldals, Zola Kathryn and grrrace

What do you do for fun when you're broke? 
Submitted by Kim. 

I grab a good book or three from the bookshelf. I've also been known to grab the sketch book, but that hasn't happened in a while!

Cross-posted from LJ

The Rules -
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.

"To extra from extract energy from organic compounds and store it in chemical form, organisms pass electrons from one compund to another through a series of oxidation-reduction reactions. As noted earlier, a sequence of enzymatically catalyzed chemical reactions occurring in a cell is called a metabolic pathway. Below is a hypothetical pathway that converts startig material A to end-product F in a series of five steps."

What books are on your nightstand?

OK. I confess. I have a Georgette Heyer addiction.

On the bookcase and the floor next to my bed i have about 20 Georgette Heyer books. That's most of her Georgian & Regency romances.

The book pictured, I re-read a few nights ago. I'm now back on "The Convenient Marriage". I think my favourite would have to be "Devil's Cub"  - the characters are quite cheeky and fresh.

Also in my book collection are Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's trilogy & Dirk Gently), Greg Bear, various Nostradamus and quite a few sci-fi and fantasy series.

And that's just the fiction section. :)