Quickly now..
May. 19th, 2005 08:08 am1.) Total number of books owned.
Enough that the prospect of moving them is stressful.
2.) The last book I bought:
A bunch of books at the Arlington Central Library sale: The Corrections by Jonathan Frazen, an Introduction to Aesthetics, Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, and The Devil's Dictional by Ambrose Bierce. All, I might add, for $5.50.
3.) The last book I read?
I am rereading Freedom & Necessity by Emmma Bull and Stephen Brust. It makes much more sense the second time around. Also read part of A.S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories and Gustav LeBon's Theory of Mass Psychology--I forget the title.
4.) Five books that mean a lot to me.
Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Notorius Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Enough that the prospect of moving them is stressful.
2.) The last book I bought:
A bunch of books at the Arlington Central Library sale: The Corrections by Jonathan Frazen, an Introduction to Aesthetics, Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, and The Devil's Dictional by Ambrose Bierce. All, I might add, for $5.50.
3.) The last book I read?
I am rereading Freedom & Necessity by Emmma Bull and Stephen Brust. It makes much more sense the second time around. Also read part of A.S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories and Gustav LeBon's Theory of Mass Psychology--I forget the title.
4.) Five books that mean a lot to me.
Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Notorius Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino