Which icon of mine can't you stand?

An attempt to start a meme:

Which icon of mine can't you stand?

There are lots of icons that are cheesy, fuzzy, obscene, have epilepsy-inducing animation or annoyingly small text, or were obviously made badly in Paint. You like the person, you just can't stand their icon when it turns up in your flist.

So. Which of my icons is like nails-on-a-blackboard for you? Comment and post this in your own journal.

Book meme

I was tagged by harryswheezy


1)Total number of books I've owned?
Well, my family own at least 12,000. How many of those are mine, I have no idea, but I estimate somewhere around 1500-2000.

2) The last book I bought?
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. There are almost thirty books in the series, so I'm acquiring them gradually.


3) The last book I read?
Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian. Age-of-sail is like my blankie fandom. I can return to it any time.

4) Five books that mean a lot to me:
-The Bible. No-brainer, that one.
-Lord of the Rings
I was twelve, younger and a girl. I needed to increase my geek credit with the boys I was friends with. I read it in six days including the Appendices. Then I moved on to
-the Silmarillion. There's just something about a mythology with its own languages. And maps. I like maps.
-Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St John. This was my favourite book when I was five or six. I spent a couple of years pretending to be the main characters, named my cat after a cat in the book, read it till my copy fell to pieces...
-The Harry Potter series. Do I need to explain this one?

Five people whose answers to this meme I would like to see:

This
is not a chain letter. If you break the chain, you will NOT have bad
luck. If you don't break the chain, nobody will send you lots of money
or (as a chain letter I once received demanded) ladies' underwear.
Given this caveat, I gently nudge the following people:

Well, most of my flist has already done it or is having exams or family crises or is off in the Canadian wilderness planting trees. So...
leelastarsky
seviet
doyle_sb4 (after her exams!)
ladyelaine
writergirlie