5 Book tag
My husband has tagged me to take part in the latest blog meme. Just trace back the links through the referees listed in each blog.
Anyway here's my response to the tag...
1. Total number of books I own
2. The last book I bought
3. The last book I read
4. Five books that mean a lot to me
5. Tag five people and have them do this on their blogs.
1. Total number of books I own would be about 2500. That's all of us together. We had to shed quite a few when we moved over here from NZ, and we have been through stages when money required that we use the library rather than buy books. But libraries just don't seem to have the variety they used to. We still have kids' books, including some that I use in teaching at high school. We ahve three bookcases in our entry way, two in the lounge, one in each bedroom and one more at the end of the hallway.
2. The last book I bought? I bought five remaindered books for $20 and one other for $22.95. The five were written by Ed McBain, John Nance, Amanda Quick, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg and Ann Purser.
3. The last book I read was the $22.95 one, 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenidis, about a hermaphrodite and the immigrant experience in Detroit during the twentieth century. It was a good read, and it is holiday time.
4. Five books that mean a lot to me.
1. Chambers Dictionary. We have a copy on the bookshelf next to the dining table and it is often referred to to check etymology, to clarify meanings or to settle, or at least upgrade, arguments. Also very handy for Scrabble games.
2. Edmonds Cook Book. This is an essential book for any self-respecting kiwi. We have two copies of the original version, one for microwave copy and one for kids. That and anything by Alison Holst is the mark of a true NZer. I do still refer to it and in my coming purge of books, it will not be touched.
3. F Scott Peck's "In Search of Stones" I have read many of Scott Peck's book and ... not enjoy, perhaps respect the autobiographical nature of this book. I enjoyed being present on a holiday to the UK, and the glimpse of the unknown that it afforded.
4. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. More than any other of his books, this one when I read it, I went Yes that was the nineties, or what I imagined it was like for those who were in the right place at the right time for the nineties. Also the first book I read that took 'seriously' the idea of writing in a style that reflected the postmodern nature of communication.
5. Adrian Plass, "The Sacred Diary" series. I really felt that God liked me and that God could take care of the world. I enjoy a good laugh, and the laughs were good.
Anyway here's my response to the tag...
1. Total number of books I own
2. The last book I bought
3. The last book I read
4. Five books that mean a lot to me
5. Tag five people and have them do this on their blogs.
1. Total number of books I own would be about 2500. That's all of us together. We had to shed quite a few when we moved over here from NZ, and we have been through stages when money required that we use the library rather than buy books. But libraries just don't seem to have the variety they used to. We still have kids' books, including some that I use in teaching at high school. We ahve three bookcases in our entry way, two in the lounge, one in each bedroom and one more at the end of the hallway.
2. The last book I bought? I bought five remaindered books for $20 and one other for $22.95. The five were written by Ed McBain, John Nance, Amanda Quick, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg and Ann Purser.
3. The last book I read was the $22.95 one, 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenidis, about a hermaphrodite and the immigrant experience in Detroit during the twentieth century. It was a good read, and it is holiday time.
4. Five books that mean a lot to me.
1. Chambers Dictionary. We have a copy on the bookshelf next to the dining table and it is often referred to to check etymology, to clarify meanings or to settle, or at least upgrade, arguments. Also very handy for Scrabble games.
2. Edmonds Cook Book. This is an essential book for any self-respecting kiwi. We have two copies of the original version, one for microwave copy and one for kids. That and anything by Alison Holst is the mark of a true NZer. I do still refer to it and in my coming purge of books, it will not be touched.
3. F Scott Peck's "In Search of Stones" I have read many of Scott Peck's book and ... not enjoy, perhaps respect the autobiographical nature of this book. I enjoyed being present on a holiday to the UK, and the glimpse of the unknown that it afforded.
4. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. More than any other of his books, this one when I read it, I went Yes that was the nineties, or what I imagined it was like for those who were in the right place at the right time for the nineties. Also the first book I read that took 'seriously' the idea of writing in a style that reflected the postmodern nature of communication.
5. Adrian Plass, "The Sacred Diary" series. I really felt that God liked me and that God could take care of the world. I enjoy a good laugh, and the laughs were good.
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