A books meme:
1) The number of books I’ve owned:
I’d say around 3000 at the high point. Now? 7 or 800. We’ve culled a *lot*.
2) The last book I bought:
…I honestly don’t know. We were given a macadamia nut cookbook for free when we bought macadamias in Hawaii, but I don’t think that counts.
3) The last book I read:
URBAN SHAMAN, by C.E. Murphy. Really.
4) Five books that mean a lot to me:
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by L.M. Montgomery
THE DARK IS RISING (sequence, if I may cheat a bit) by Susan Cooper
TIGANA by Guy Gavriel Kay
THE BLUE SWORD by Robin McKinley
URBAN SHAMAN by C.E. Murphy*
Your turn. :)
*The others are desert island books, but it shouldn’t take a lot of thinking to figure out why US means a lot to me. :)
miles to Rauros Falls: 238
I came home last night to a copy of US on my chair (thanks, Amazon!) and didn’t go to sleep until I was done with it. What a great read!
Now your adoring fans have only one request: Don’t make Jim Butcher’s mistake and have the character learn _nothing_ from her gloriously stupid mistakes for the first six books. Or we will keel you. In the nicest way possible, of course.
(Actually, I do have another request, but it’s minor. That coyote character? Some trickster behavior would be nice. Thanks. :-)
YAY! for book! I’m glad you enjoyed it! *wriggle*
I shall attempt to not make that mistake. And Coyote shall do as Coyote must. :)
Hey, that was the last book I read, too!
#1: philosophical investigations – wittgenstein
#2: diamond age – stephenson
#3: egil’s saga – sturluson
#4: invisible cities – calvino
#5: marco polo’s travels – rustichello