Thursday Thirteen: OUTLANDER Addiction
Thirteen Unmistakable Signs of OUTLANDER Addiction:
1) You're constantly reading (or listening to) one of Diana Gabaldon's books.
2) You spend a lot of time online on various OUTLANDER fan-sites (including this one <g>), Compuserve, Diana's blog, her YouTube channel, or talking with friends about the books.
3) You start using phrases like "I dinna ken" and "Dinna fash yourself" in casual conversation, even when talking to people who are not fans.
4) You name your pets, or your kids, after characters in the books.
5) You buy extra copies of the books to give to friends, co-workers, and/or family members. ("Try this, you'll love it!")
6) You buy the unabridged audiobooks and load them onto an iPod or similar device so that you can listen to Jamie and Claire wherever you happen to be.
7) You pre-ordered Diana's latest book three months or more before the scheduled publication date.
8) You talk your husband or boyfriend into dressing up in a kilt, and/or calling you "Sassenach".
9) You've re-read one (or more) of Diana's books so many times that it literally fell to pieces.
10) You'll go to see any movie with a Scottish actor in it, just to hear the accent.
11) You've traveled to Scotland, or North Carolina, specifically to see the places mentioned in the books.
12) You've been to one or more of Diana's book-signings or public events.
13) When you reach the end of the series, you immediately start over at the beginning with OUTLANDER.
What about the rest of you? Got any more to add to this list? And which of these apply to you? (I personally will admit to 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 12, and 13. <g>)
Here's my example: I teach Things Fall Apart to my sophomores. The novel is set in Nigeria, and the Ibo people (the tribe in the novel) believe twins are evil because one is an evil spirit. They would leave both babies in the jungle to die because they didn't want to kill the baby and raise the evil spirit. My students were quite confused and appalled, so what did I do? I explained to them that the British Isles had a similar custom; they often believed that sickly babies had been taken by fairies and replaced with fey offspring, so they would leave the fairy baby on a hill, hoping it would be replaced with their own baby. And where did I get this interesting fact? From Outlander, a la Claire picking up the fairy baby and getting herself almost burned as a witch for it!
Here's another one: you are proud to have been born in May because you share a birthday month with Jamie!
Karen
Still waiting, btw. :-) Come join us anytime!
Karen
And if anyone figures out how to get #8 to actually work, please let me know. Sigh...
1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 13.
I am a bit sad as I had a plan to go to a conference in Glasgow in the middle of June. Planned to rent a car to do a tour Ft William/Loch Ness/Beauly/Inverness/Edinburgh/Isle of Islay. And to get a real Fraser Kilt.
But sometimes things don't turn the way you wish.
PS.
The Isle of Islay would have been because of my love on Islay Whiskies.
-no.s 1,2,5,6,7,13
-12 is on my list of things i want to do, i only realised too late about herselfs last visit to the uk :-(
-no.4 hmmm, we,ve picked a boys name for baby due nov (don,t know whether boy/girl) and now i realise it,s a character (a minor one)from abosaa, although i liked it before i read the book.
lesley :-)