Hopping Along

First, I apologize for the double post. I am trying to get used to a new posting schedule which includes meme-ish type posts, and since I haven't done any scheduled posting like that for about a year or so, I'm still having a few snafus. But I really like the community feel of the various book blog hops going on around the blogosphere these days.

The Book Blogger Hop over at Crazy-for-Books asks: What book are you most looking forward to seeing published in 2011? Why are you anticipating that book?

For me, that's a tough question, primarily because I don't exactly keep up on release dates and new books. What immediately popped into my head though is Scott Westerfeld's Goliath, the final book in the Leviathan series. I loved the first two (Leviathan, Behemoth), reading them back to back in just two days. Waiting until September (possibly October) to read the finale kind of gives me the twitches. I really, really, really prefer to wait until the whole series is out, and then read all of the installments in one shebang. Sometimes my excitement overcomes this though, and I just have to pick up the first book.

Follow My Book Blog Friday is hosted over at Parajunkee's View, and it's a nice way to find new blogs to stalk follow. This week's question is: What is/was your favorite subject in school?

A most difficult question for me since I - like a good geek - loved school. I loved grade school, enjoyed high school, and practically worshiped college. My favorite subject would be a tie between English and Film Studies, and my favorite classes combined the two. For instance I took this awesome class on Horror where we read books and watched movies in the horror genre. Too fun. I took an obscene amount of courses in cultural studies where we focused on the role visual media plays in contemporary society, and one of my best classes actually went over the history of visual media in 20th century America. Then there was 19th century African history, the History of Sexuality, 19th century Irish Literature, Women in Shakespeare, Perspective in Documentary Film-making... I could go on and on and on about the great courses I took in college, but I think you get the idea.