bookworm
kelly | 4 June 2005 - 10:57am
Thanks for the tag, Weetzie! This one is similar to, but not exactly the same as, a book meme I did awhile back. All my answers are different now anyway.
1. Total number of books I've owned:
The I've confuses me here. Total number of books I've EVER owned? In all my life thus far? Sweet google that is too many to count. Currently on my small bookshelf there are about 75 books, mostly English major stuff like Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and EVERY NOVEL CHARLES DICKENS HAS EVER WRITTEN. (I guess you could say I went through a Dickens phase in college.) I also have many many anthologies, which is Latin for books for which you must sell your ovaries in order to afford, and from which you only ever read one 15-page short story. Such a good word, anthology. Makes literature sound so scientific. Wait, where was I? Oh yes, number of books.
I also have about 50 children's books. Mostly Dr. Seuss. I have EVERY BOOK DR. SEUSS HAS EVER WRITTEN. (Yeah, the phase thing again.)
Finally, I have boxes and boxes and boxes of books in the basement. BOXES.
2. Last book I bought:
Three Junes by Julia Glass. I've been wanting to read this one and the Redneck Valley Library doesn't have it. But Barnes & Noble is my bitch.
3. Last book I read:
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. (Word, Weetzie.)
4. Currently reading:
Three Junes.
5. Five books that mean a lot to me:
a) The Hours by Michael Cunningham - Hands down the best novel I've ever read. Ever.
b) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - The best novel I've read recently. (Word once again, Weetzie.)
c) Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss - This book turns me on like only grammar can. And ooh, the British terms are so hot. Full stop, how sexy is that?! Seriously. SO sexy.
d) Marriage Shock by Dalma Heyn - Examines the effect societal expectations have on the role of Wife. This is a fascinating, liberating, and essential read. I give it to all my friends when they get engaged.
e) The Adventures of Kloggy - I KNOW, how cool is this? Thanks to mrtl for discovering it.
I love getting book recommendations. So if you've got some, now would be the time.
- 359 reads
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Check out a list of book recommendations I got this week at bookclub!
(man! i was almost first.)
being a HUGE bibliophile myself, i loved the book swan song a wholewhole lot. a lot. i also love anything toni morrison and richard wright. ernest hemingway, of course, also tickles my fancy with anything he wrote. and like water for chocolate and one hundred years of solitude are always on my list. i could go on and on...english/books/reading are my first loves.
I'm in the middle of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. His travel books rock - funny, insightful, and informative. This book takes those talents and applies them to science and natural history. Very cool.
I just finished The DaVinci Code which was ... OK, for all the eighteen-years-at-the-top-of-the-NY Times-Bestseller-List hype.
Oh, and of course, there's http://www.nilsling.com/book.html
It's good bathroom reading, assuming you have a plunger ...
Time Traveler's Wife is going to go down as one of my all-time favorite books. That was SOOOOO good.
I read The Time Traveler's Wife last summer and was enthralled. Good read! Another entertaining-- and illuminating-- read would be The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon. The story/murder mystery (well, murder of a dog, anyway) is narrated by a 15-year-old autistic boy. Set in London. Vuuurrrrrry interesting! Loved it.
Thanks for the recommendations, everyone! Interestingly, A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time are both already on my To Read list. I think I'll bump them to the top...
The Hours is my all-time favorite book as well. Beautifully written, bittersweet and profound ~ I get all misty just thinking about that book. Love the soundtrack from the movie too incidentally. I use it a lot at work.
I'm reading a good book for a new bookclub I've been invited to join. It's called the Ha Ha by Dave King & while it is not a subject I'd normally read, the writing is good & it pulled me in.