Sunday, August 10, 2008

Weekly Geeks #13 Part II

Last week's challenge was to guess the author photos. Here are the anwers:

1. (One of) My favorite authors:
Frank Herbert, author of Dune, which is where my parents got my name (Jessica).

2. Author of a book I'm reading right now:
Ally Carter, author of I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, which I just reviewed for today's Sunday Salon.

3. Author I have met:
Rabbi Harold Kuchner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

4. Video of an author I've seen speak:

Michael Moore, author of Downsize This! and host of The Awful Truth.

5. Author of the book I most recently finished:
Stephenie Meyer, author of Breaking Dawn.

6. HOT author:
Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, contributor to BoingBoing, blogger, and wearer of goggles and red cape. Sigh...


A big thank you to Alessandra, Deb, Care, Naida, Joanne, and Guatami for your comments. I used Random's number generator to pick a winner. Congratulations to Joanne! I'll be e-mailing you about your fabulous prize. :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I loved this little note about your name and that it's from Dune? cool. I need to read that book...

Bob said...

I am a huge Dune fan, and I think that's great your parents named you after Jessica in the book... take care :)