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1. Libraries or Bookshops.
Both. These days I prefer bookshops for my own personal browsing, but I was once a career librarian, so libraries are still a high priority for me - even though I don't use them much myself lately.
2. Pens or Pencils.
Oooh, don't get me started. I found one of my old Parker fountain pens the other day - a Parker 61, bought for me when I passed my Eleven Plus. I've also got my dad's old Parker 51. I should get some ink and try them both out again. Even though I had the Parker I used to love an old italic-nib Osmiroid. Cheap as chips (cost about five bob) but I loved the nib even though I didn't do proper italic handwriting like my best friend was made to do at her posh primary school. I'm still a bit partial to a chisel-nib, but currently I like those fine-point fibre pens like the new Sharpie pens (not the ones that bleed through your paper). Dark purple in or dark turquoise ink for fun, otherwise black. I don't like ink-gel pens - too smooth and slippery and I hate very fine point ballpens, though I quite like Parker ballpens with a medium tip, and Papermate ball pens are nice to handle. I like to draw with a set of soft pencils, 1B to 4B, as long as I have a pencil sharpener handy and some good quality paper.
3. Handwritten or Typed.
Typed
4. Thesaurus or Dictionary.
Either, both - depending on the task in hand.
5. Kindle et al or Print Book.
For ease of use, Kindle for fiction and print for non-fiction, but I still like real print books, it's just that I'm running out of storeage for new ones.
6. Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia.
Wikipedia first. Then Google. Reference books for in depth searches.
7. Radio Play or Television Drama.
Radio4 for many things but for drama I prefer television.
8. Poetry or Prose.
Prose. I don't really get poetry except in very rare circumstances.I'm more Wilfred Owen than William Wordsworth.
9. Fiction or Non-Fiction.
Fiction for leisure. Non fiction for research and occasional leisure
10. Novels or Short stories.
Novels
11. Fantasy or Commercial/Literary Fiction.
Fantasy and sf with some historicals thrown in for light relief.
12. The Grapes of Wrath or Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Neither. Run awaaaayyyyyy.......
13. The Odyssey or The Road.
The Odyssey.
14. Tipping the Velvet or The Well of Loneliness.
No. Just no.
15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Winnie-the-Pooh.
Pooh, though. I prefer Paddington Bear.
16. Frankenstein or Dracula.
Neither, really. Frankenstein if my life depended on making a choice.
17. Charles Perrault or The Brothers Grimm.
Grimm
18. William Shakespeare or William Blake.
Shakespeare
19. Virginia Woolf or Katherine Mansfield.
Run awaaaayyyyyy.......
20. Philip Pullman or JK Rowling.
Rowling, by a mile, though I really prefer Diana Wynne Jones. Pullman's earlier offerings, Ruby in the Smoke and his other Sally Lockhart books, are much better than the Dark Materials trilogy, which I found pretentious.
21. Emily Dickinson or Sylvia Plath.
Dickinson I suppose, but neither for preference
la_marquise_de_1. Libraries or Bookshops.
Both. These days I prefer bookshops for my own personal browsing, but I was once a career librarian, so libraries are still a high priority for me - even though I don't use them much myself lately.
2. Pens or Pencils.
Oooh, don't get me started. I found one of my old Parker fountain pens the other day - a Parker 61, bought for me when I passed my Eleven Plus. I've also got my dad's old Parker 51. I should get some ink and try them both out again. Even though I had the Parker I used to love an old italic-nib Osmiroid. Cheap as chips (cost about five bob) but I loved the nib even though I didn't do proper italic handwriting like my best friend was made to do at her posh primary school. I'm still a bit partial to a chisel-nib, but currently I like those fine-point fibre pens like the new Sharpie pens (not the ones that bleed through your paper). Dark purple in or dark turquoise ink for fun, otherwise black. I don't like ink-gel pens - too smooth and slippery and I hate very fine point ballpens, though I quite like Parker ballpens with a medium tip, and Papermate ball pens are nice to handle. I like to draw with a set of soft pencils, 1B to 4B, as long as I have a pencil sharpener handy and some good quality paper.
3. Handwritten or Typed.
Typed
4. Thesaurus or Dictionary.
Either, both - depending on the task in hand.
5. Kindle et al or Print Book.
For ease of use, Kindle for fiction and print for non-fiction, but I still like real print books, it's just that I'm running out of storeage for new ones.
6. Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia.
Wikipedia first. Then Google. Reference books for in depth searches.
7. Radio Play or Television Drama.
Radio4 for many things but for drama I prefer television.
8. Poetry or Prose.
Prose. I don't really get poetry except in very rare circumstances.I'm more Wilfred Owen than William Wordsworth.
9. Fiction or Non-Fiction.
Fiction for leisure. Non fiction for research and occasional leisure
10. Novels or Short stories.
Novels
11. Fantasy or Commercial/Literary Fiction.
Fantasy and sf with some historicals thrown in for light relief.
12. The Grapes of Wrath or Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Neither. Run awaaaayyyyyy.......
13. The Odyssey or The Road.
The Odyssey.
14. Tipping the Velvet or The Well of Loneliness.
No. Just no.
15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Winnie-the-Pooh.
Pooh, though. I prefer Paddington Bear.
16. Frankenstein or Dracula.
Neither, really. Frankenstein if my life depended on making a choice.
17. Charles Perrault or The Brothers Grimm.
Grimm
18. William Shakespeare or William Blake.
Shakespeare
19. Virginia Woolf or Katherine Mansfield.
Run awaaaayyyyyy.......
20. Philip Pullman or JK Rowling.
Rowling, by a mile, though I really prefer Diana Wynne Jones. Pullman's earlier offerings, Ruby in the Smoke and his other Sally Lockhart books, are much better than the Dark Materials trilogy, which I found pretentious.
21. Emily Dickinson or Sylvia Plath.
Dickinson I suppose, but neither for preference
