God dammit, Daphers!
UPDATE:Daphers asked for more detail, and whatever Daphers wants, Daphers gets.
Okay, here we go:
Total number of books owned?
Um... lots.
Last book I bought?
I dunno. I tend to beg and borrow more than buy when it comes to books. Nora recently gave me Brave New World. Does that count?
Last book I read?
Well, I'm in the middle of the Illuminatus triolgy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, and I'm also in the middle of Brave New World, though I'm not sure where I put it down last. I think the last book I finished (that I was reading for the first time) was The Great Unravelling by Paul Krugman.
5 books that mean a lot to me?
Hmmm. Some of these will be from my childhood, but I think that's okay. So, here goes:
1. Heidi by Johanna Spyri. I liked this book because of its strong, inquisitive, independent-minded female character. Heidi was my idol when I was little.
2. Rinosceros by Eugene Ionesco. This is a play about conformity. I don't really know what else to say. I remember being very impressed by the final soliloquy by the main character, but I don't remember what it said.
3. Sunshine and Moonlight by Jan Ormerod (these don't actually have words, and they're a pair, so I'm counting them as one). These are picture books of a little girl's morning and evening routine. Partly it spoke to me so much because she and the parents looked almost exactly like me and my parents did when I was little, but also the pictures are these incredibly beautiful watercolours. The artist managed to perfectly capture the look and feeling of morning sun coming through a window. Unfortunately, they've been out of print for years.
4. Boys Like Her by Taste This (Anna Camilleri, Lyndell Montgomery, Zoe Eckle, Ivan E. Coyote). This is a road story by four queer women who were a performance group.
5. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark. There isn't a whole lot I can say about this book without giving too much away. I just really liked it. It's sci-fi.
Tag five other people who I want to do this:
1. Q. Pheevr
2. Echidne
3. Jasper
4. Tishie
5. Lucidite
Okay, here we go:
Total number of books owned?
Um... lots.
Last book I bought?
I dunno. I tend to beg and borrow more than buy when it comes to books. Nora recently gave me Brave New World. Does that count?
Last book I read?
Well, I'm in the middle of the Illuminatus triolgy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, and I'm also in the middle of Brave New World, though I'm not sure where I put it down last. I think the last book I finished (that I was reading for the first time) was The Great Unravelling by Paul Krugman.
5 books that mean a lot to me?
Hmmm. Some of these will be from my childhood, but I think that's okay. So, here goes:
1. Heidi by Johanna Spyri. I liked this book because of its strong, inquisitive, independent-minded female character. Heidi was my idol when I was little.
2. Rinosceros by Eugene Ionesco. This is a play about conformity. I don't really know what else to say. I remember being very impressed by the final soliloquy by the main character, but I don't remember what it said.
3. Sunshine and Moonlight by Jan Ormerod (these don't actually have words, and they're a pair, so I'm counting them as one). These are picture books of a little girl's morning and evening routine. Partly it spoke to me so much because she and the parents looked almost exactly like me and my parents did when I was little, but also the pictures are these incredibly beautiful watercolours. The artist managed to perfectly capture the look and feeling of morning sun coming through a window. Unfortunately, they've been out of print for years.
4. Boys Like Her by Taste This (Anna Camilleri, Lyndell Montgomery, Zoe Eckle, Ivan E. Coyote). This is a road story by four queer women who were a performance group.
5. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark. There isn't a whole lot I can say about this book without giving too much away. I just really liked it. It's sci-fi.
Tag five other people who I want to do this:
1. Q. Pheevr
2. Echidne
3. Jasper
4. Tishie
5. Lucidite