Obscurorant 2.0

This particular meme has been floating about for a while now. The Intended pointed it out to me when it popped up at C. & Z., and now I see Heather’s gone and done it. So here’s my own version of the VGT Omnivore’s Hundred (after the jump).

Still trying to disguise the lack of original content with a meme, this time about authors, stolen from here.
1. Who’s your all-time favorite author, and why?
Easy-peasy, it’s J.R.R. Tolkien. The first author to hold me captive through his prose.
2. Who was your first favorite author, and why? Do you still consider him or her among [...]

Submitted for your consideration: the Oversharing Meme (stolen from here). Participate if you will.
1. Name the singer/band/performer you are most embarrassed to admit you actually paid good money to see in concert.
I saw Motley Crue with Whitesnake opening. And I think I may have been more jazzed about seeing Whitesnake. Sad, so sad.
2. Which reality [...]

Hope springs eternal, as do book memes. Found this one here, and as always, feel free to play along at home.
1. When/how did you become an avid reader?
Second grade. The school library. The astounding revelation that I could get any book about any topic I chose. So I read Guadalcanal Diary about a million times. [...]

Which it’s another book meme, borrowed from this here site, and you may participate, or not, as you like.

Which it’s another bookish meme, that I found here.
List some of your favourite words:
Cull. Aeroplane (I love the anachronism). Pockets.
What’s your favourite maxim or proverb?
Is this required to be a literary maxim or proverb? I’ve never been much for quoting proverbs.

This meme comes to you by way of The Sheila Variations. Consider yourself tagged if such things interest you.

Just for s. and g. here’s a movie meme I found here. Consider it open source and do it yourself, if you’d like.

Well then there: I mention my inability to resist a book meme and zip!bang!pow! I’m tagged with a new one.
List 5 books that played and important role in your childhood and explain why. Then tag 5 others.

Have I done this meme before?  No matter – like a crow to shiny trinkets  I am drawn to book memes, especially if they be genre book memes.