I seem to have been neglecting the internet for awhile ... or at least this little corner of it. I've been drawn back by a friend on livejournal who posted an interesting little five questions meme/challenge which I wanted to get involved with.

What sort of people to you find you relate to best?

The kind of people who feel a house without books is like a room without windows. People who are easily amused (but not at the expense of others). Musicians and dancers and passionate fools; these are my peeps.

If you could travel anywhere in the world where would it be? What attracts you?

Roztocze National Park in Poland. I'm a sucker for ancient woodland and this park contains some of the last remaining primordial forest in Europe. There are some stands of ancient beech there I'd very much like to walk under (the nearest thing I know of here is parts of Savernake forest).

Are you a fan of animals? Do you have a particular favourite?

I have a deep love for Meercats, those little things are made of cute and fascinating (I could watch them forever). I also think sugar gliders are the cutest thing since the last cutest thing.

If you could change one thing, politically, what would it be and why?

I would introduce some form of proportional representation at a national level. It certainly wouldn't be a panacea, but It feels to me as if the net effect would be positive.

What sort of reading to you like to do best of all? Do you have an all time favourite book? (Fwiw mine's H G Wells's: 'The history of Mister Polly')

I like something I can lose myself in, the kind of book that eats me up and feels like wearing someone elses skin. It's usually fiction, genrefic most often (though that's not a must) and I generally know if it'll be one of those within the first hundred pages. I'll still read ones that don't get me that deeply, but they don't tend to become favourites.

I would be hard-pressed to ever name a single favourite book; there are simply too many that I love. I'll give you a short list that I'm fond of though.

Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
The Roads of Heaven by Melissa Scott
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey

That misses out so much, but those ones definitely grabbed me .

If anyone reading would like to be posed five questions to answer (according to feedburner there are 22 of you, I'm suddenly a little nervous!) then just say the word in comments and I'll come up with some.