you change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold
1: total number of books i own - 300 or so currently, i thinki
2: the last book i bought: the immoralist, andre gide. from an arctic book barn.
3: the last book i read: the dark is rising sequence. i just felt the need to revisit a loved childhood text. i never finished the last book of the quintet, the grey king, the first time around. it was quite slashy actually.
4: 5 books that mean a lot to me:
- orality and literacy - walter ong (one of those dry, dusty texts that is a headache to read and somehow allows you to look outside your own eyeballs, reconsider everything.)
- heart of darkness - joseph conrad
- the name of the rose - umberto eco
- wings of the dove - henry james
- the windup bird chronicle - huraki murakami (though it will always remind me of lost love, which can be sucky. and can be nice, the remembering)