I've been typealyzed

The first day of spring (yay!) seems like as good a time as any to have some blog related fun!

The above is the result that I got when I added my URL to Typealyzer where it analyses what kind of writing it is that I do! In order to analyse, it looks at whatever posts you have showing on your blog. Given that at the moment I am showing my "woe is me" post from last week and memories of birthday cakes past I would say that the evidence on feeling is pretty much correct. Having said that the statements about avoiding conflicts and confrontation are totally true!

Here are my results:

ESFP - The Performers
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.

Thanks to Kerrie from Mysteries in Paradise who posted after she was typealyzed!

Teaser Tuesday and a little Star Trek fun

It's not very often that I put a photo of myself up on the blog, but this widget looked like so much fun when I saw it over at Scifichick.com that I just couldn't resist!

Yes, I really am hiding underneath there!

Onto more serious business - Teaser Tuesday!


Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Should be Reading:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
• Please avoid spoilers!
  

Two teasers this week, both from books I am enjoying immensely!

The Swan Maiden is the latest book by Aussie author Jules Watson. It is a retelling of the Irish Celtic myth about Diedre and so far is very enjoyable. I had to be very careful this morning to make sure I didn't get so engrossed in my reading that I went past my train station! This teaser comes from page 369:

As he spoke to them, he had been filled with the memory of what it felt like in a great mass of warriors, and his long-dammed passion had fired his words.

And so the Epidii felt a glimpse of it, at last.

The second teaser comes from an old favourite. I don't really do rereads, but I decided that it was time for me to reintroduce myself to Jamie and Claire and so I am rereading the first book in the Outlander series, which was published here under the title Cross Stitch. This teaser comes from page 400:

Now, listen. Ye understand me, ye say, and I believe it. But there's a difference between understandin' something with your mind and really knowing, deep down.

Who am I?

Author Jenny Crusie recently posted a link to a site called Typealyzer which analyzes what type of person someone is based on what they post on their blog! I did it for fun, but I have to say that it is pretty spot on really! They also have an analysis of brain activity but I can't figure out how to copy that over here!

ISTP - The Mechanics

The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the demands of the moment are masters of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously. They generelly prefer to think things out for themselves and often avoid inter-personal conflicts.

The Mechanics enjoy working together with other independent and highly skilled people and often like seek fun and action both in their work and personal life. They enjoy adventure and risk such as in driving race cars or working as policemen and firefighters.

Which Top Gear Presenter are you?

I love watching Top Gear - a British TV show about cars. I am not interested in the profiles of the new cars, but I do love the antics they get up to. I often find myself crying laughing whilst watching the show! When I saw this on Tez Miller's blog, I had to find out for myself who I am!

You Scored as The Stig

Some say you were born on Mars, and that you smell of burnt sugar. All we know is, you're called The Stig!

The Stig

83%

May

83%

Clarkson

75%

Hammond

75%

Top Gear Dog

33%

My Inner Dewey

Marg's Dewey Decimal Section:

325 International migration & colonization

Marg = 3187 = 318+7 = 325


Class:
300 Social Sciences


Contains:
Books on politics, economics, education and the law.



What it says about you:
You are good at understanding people and finding the systems that work for them. You like having established reasoning behind your decisions. You consider it very important for your friends to always have your back.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

That's not good either!

Hot on the heels of the revelation that I wouldn't last very long if I was chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor, it turns out that I am no good against zombies either.


35%

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Just because it made me laugh...

more animals

That's not very long!

I saw this over at Lezlie's today and thought it looked like fun, so here are my results! I might need her to shelter me for a while I think!


I could survive for 41 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

Created by Bunk Beds Pedia

Ahoy there me hearties!

So Friday was international Talk Like A Pirate day! Before you can be a pirate though, you need to get your pirate name:

My pirate name is:

Mad Dog Bonney

Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

Thanks to Bookwyrm for
the link!

Of course, talking about pirates I could link up to pictures of Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom, but if you have had small kids any time in the last 10 or so years, and you have had any exposure to any of the songs by the Wiggles, then you may be just as familiar with this pirate ... Captain Feathersword!



My favourite line in this song? Watch him dance in his pirate pants!

Fun quiz

I wasn't going to post this quiz, but with a result like this, what choice did I have!

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Maria V Snyder is in the house!

Woot, woot!

Actually, she's not in my house, she's being featured over at Zeek's today, and there is a chance to win a signed copy of one of her books! A couple of years ago I read Poison Study, and absolutely loved it. It is fantasy, but very accessible fantasy. I have several books that I consider giving to friends for gifts, and Poison Study is one of them!


Another exciting giveaway this weekend is over at Book Smugglers where they are having a weekend of Loretta Chase, and there's a chance to win copies of her newest book, Your Scandalous Ways.

The Game

I saw this over at Pea Soup and thought it looked like fun. Turned out to be a little bit of work, but the results look cool!





The concept:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name

What Age Do You Act?

Saw this over at Darla's blog, and thought I would see how I go! At least I don't act older than I am ...right!

You Act Like You Are 22 Years Old

You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel like an adult, and you're optimistic about life. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. You're still figuring out your place in the world and how you want your life to shape up. The world is full of possibilities, and you can't wait to explore many of them.

What Age Do You Act?

They like me...they really like me!

Thanks J. Kaye!

Two bits and pieces posts in a week

A couple of firsts that I am very excited about to share with you all!

Firstly, over at Reading the Past, Sarah has the first picture I have seen of the cover for Sharon Kay Penman's next book, The Devil's Brood, which is due out in October!




The second first is the first review I have seen of the new book by Carlos Ruiz Zafon which has appeared over at Omnivoracious. The book is only out in Spanish at this time, but the review definitely sounds promise. This is one book that I will definitely be buying when it finally is released in English!






The third first is that I have been awarded a "You Colour my World" blog award from The Colour Jane. Thanks!

A little of this and a little of that!

I have a few different things I wanted to post about, so this is going to be a post with several different things in it.

First, Rosina Lippi/Sara Donati has a new excerpt up for book six of the Into the Wilderness series. This series is one of my favourites and I am very much looking forward to the new book when it comes out!

Speaking of excerpts, Jennifer Crusie has posted the whole first chapter of Dogs and Goddesses, her upcoming collaboration with Lani Diane Rich and Anne Stuart. Whilst I prefer her non-collaboration books it is fair to say that I will be reading this one when it comes out!

The second thing is that I got a blog award from Teddy Rose at So Many Precious Books, So Little Time. I'd like to thank my parents, my sister, my friends, my agent...wait..I don't have an agent.

In the spirit of sharing, I would like to pass this award onto Ana from Aneca's World, in recognition of all her hard work on Historical Tapestry, and because she is a great person!

The second person who I would like to award this to is Dewey from Hidden Side of a Leaf. Now Dewey may be surprised to get this from me because we haven't interacted personally all that often, but she always is really active in trying to build up our little bookish corner of the blogosphere with lots of fun ideas! I don't always participate, but I do always admire her energy and her ideas. Great job Dewey.


Speaking of Dewey and her great ideas, we needed to do a follow up post about this week's Weekly Geeks idea, which was to spread the link love around by sharing our links to book reviews that we had in common with other bloggers.

Initially, I was reluctant to undertake this one, because I was worried about how much extra time this would take on an ongoing basis. When I thought about it a bit more, I decided to go ahead with it because, whilst there was definitely a lot of time spent on it this week find book reviews in common and leaving comments and the like, going forward it should actually be pretty manageable I think. What I have also spent more time on this week is reading more new blogs in Bloglines, as I find more and more book bloggers who are also participants in Weekly Geeks!

Favourite Authors A-Z

I first saw this over at Danielle's blog, but since then have seen it on a number of others, and thought I might give it a go myself. The idea is to list your favourite author and your favourite book by that author, but I might cheat especially if their books are all interconnected. I was feeling a little smug thinking that my spreadsheets would help make this relatively easy, but then I started with the letter A and had three possible authors to put down, so it isn't as easy as you think! So here goes:


A - Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld series)
B - Anne Bishop (Black Jewels series)
C - Susan Carroll (Fair Isle series)
D - Sara Donati (Into the Wilderness series)
E - Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum series)
F - Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next series)
G - Diana Gabaldon (Outlander series)
H - Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
I - Uzondinma Iweala (Beasts of No Nations)
J - Eloisa James (Kiss Me Annabel)
K - Marian Keyes (Walsh sisters series)
L - C S Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia)
M - Stephenie Meyer (Twilight Saga)
N - Diana Norman (Makepeace Burke trilogy)
O
P - Sharon Kay Penman (Welsh Trilogy, Sunne in Splendour)
Q - Julia Quinn (Bridgerton series)
R - J D Robb (In Death series)
S - Paullina Simons (The Bronze Horseman trilogy)
T - Shaun Tan (The Arrival)
U - Luis Alberto Urrea (The Hummingbird's Daughter)
V - Elizabeth Vaughan (The Warlord Chronicles)
W - J R Ward (Black Dagger Brotherhood)
X
Y - Peter Yeldham (Barbed Wire and Roses)
Z - Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)


There are a couple of those that I wouldn't necessarily count as absolute favourites, but they are definitely favourites of the books that I have read by authors whose surnames start with that letter!

I do wonder if anyone has managed to find an author for X? There must be some out there.

If you decide to have a go at this, let me know!

A Deep and Meaningful Winnie the Pooh Character Test

Saw this at Booksplease. Who could resist? It's long for one of these tests, but there are lots of great little snippets of Winnie the Pooh stories.

Your Score: Eeyore

You scored 14 Ego, 16 Anxiety, and 12 Agency!

"Do you know what A means, little Piglet?"

"No, Eeyore, I don't."

"It means Learning, it means Education, it means all
the things that you and Pooh haven't got. That's what A means."

"Oh," said Piglet again. "I mean, does it?" he
explained quickly.

"I'm telling you. People come and go in this Forest,
and they say, 'It's only Eeyore, so it doesn't count.' They
walk to and fro saying 'Ha ha!' But do they know anything about
A? They don't. It's just three sticks to them. But to the
Educated--mark this, little Piglet--to the Educated, not
meaning Poohs and Piglets, it's a great and glorious A.

You scored as Eeyore!

ABOUT EEYORE: Eeyore lives in his own thistley corner of the forest and wonders why people don't come to visit him more often. He is master of the Guilt Trip, and is always gently forgiving his visitors for neglecting him. Eeyore considers himself to be smarter than the other inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood, and is often exasperated by their habit of having adventures and general merriment.

WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT YOU: You are an anxious person, and you tend to expect the worst. Your friends find you somewhat cynical at times, because you have found that it is best to expect disappointment. You often feel unappreciated by the people you work with, but you rarely actually try and do anything to change that fact.

Your close friends admire you more than you think they do. They wish that you would learn to stop worrying so much and actually start trying to fix what is bothering you. If something is making you unhappy... change it!

Link: The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test written by wolfcaroling on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test View My Profile(wolfcaroling)

Apparently I am having an anxious day!

Cuss-o-meter

Saw this over at Flamingo House Happenings!


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I would be interested in knowing what their definition of a cuss word is!

Fight!

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