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A bibliomeme
Jun. 18th, 2005 02:33 am1. Total number of books you own
My bookshelf at home appears to hold about 250 books, so counting textbooks and random wanderers, I'm going to guess about 350 (of which 55 are most of a Nancy Drew collection once donated to me, and about 80 are by Enid Blyton, 30 are Tintin books, and the rest is mostly fantasy or science fiction or mystery).
2. Last book you bought
Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card, =birthday present for a friend who turned 17 (thus making us twin primes!); obviously (given my sn), I read it myself, and I wish I had a Trusite II...
3. Last book you read
See #2.
4. 5 books that mean a lot to you and why
(lots of work here!)
a) Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. It's not a series, and it really doesn't need to be...it has magic, and it has people working in the cause, basically, of a name--a cause that seems logically so pointless but is actually so moving. As are the way the characters work, often taking actions too late to validate their previous reasons for changing their entire lives...but with such feeling.
b) The Valley of Adventure by Enid Blyton. There's no reason unique to the book, but it was my introduction to Enid Blyton, and it's a bit too late for people our age to start reading her, but she writes the ultimate in what I might call "comfort books." Everything not long-term in the plot is resolved, and there are lots of series...and they're just fun, and a great refuge. It seems like the perfect adventure that kids might actually want to have.
c) Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. Celtic legends, and such wonderful writing. I'd put the third in the trilogy because of its beauty, only you really have to read the first. (My definition of beauty is not exactly superficial here, but it's hard to explain. It's what I and others mean when we say that we see beauty in mathematics--well, for me, that counts your everyday natural numbers--only for different reasons.)
d) The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine. (Finally reread quite a bit of it just now.) My first experience with psychological problems...and oh, the guilt...it kind of got under my skin, and stayed there...a reminder of to help people who are /mean/ but really need it.
e) The Rough-Face Girl. A little picture-storybook I read once when I was about four, most likely...a Native American Cinderella story. I saw it again this year, and I didn't remember it at all until I saw the picture of the face in the sky, which I had actually remembered almost perfectly. It would be a totally random choice except that I remembered it for a reason (beauty).
5) Tag 5 people to do this meme:
I refuse to spread memes that require work! However, if my three non-HRSFen friends (sdn, lain246, and undomielregina) would do it at some point, I'd like that.
6) Comment with a book you would expect (but not already know) me to have read, or that you think I personally really should read, and why.
Elizabeth
My bookshelf at home appears to hold about 250 books, so counting textbooks and random wanderers, I'm going to guess about 350 (of which 55 are most of a Nancy Drew collection once donated to me, and about 80 are by Enid Blyton, 30 are Tintin books, and the rest is mostly fantasy or science fiction or mystery).
2. Last book you bought
Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card, =birthday present for a friend who turned 17 (thus making us twin primes!); obviously (given my sn), I read it myself, and I wish I had a Trusite II...
3. Last book you read
See #2.
4. 5 books that mean a lot to you and why
(lots of work here!)
a) Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. It's not a series, and it really doesn't need to be...it has magic, and it has people working in the cause, basically, of a name--a cause that seems logically so pointless but is actually so moving. As are the way the characters work, often taking actions too late to validate their previous reasons for changing their entire lives...but with such feeling.
b) The Valley of Adventure by Enid Blyton. There's no reason unique to the book, but it was my introduction to Enid Blyton, and it's a bit too late for people our age to start reading her, but she writes the ultimate in what I might call "comfort books." Everything not long-term in the plot is resolved, and there are lots of series...and they're just fun, and a great refuge. It seems like the perfect adventure that kids might actually want to have.
c) Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. Celtic legends, and such wonderful writing. I'd put the third in the trilogy because of its beauty, only you really have to read the first. (My definition of beauty is not exactly superficial here, but it's hard to explain. It's what I and others mean when we say that we see beauty in mathematics--well, for me, that counts your everyday natural numbers--only for different reasons.)
d) The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine. (Finally reread quite a bit of it just now.) My first experience with psychological problems...and oh, the guilt...it kind of got under my skin, and stayed there...a reminder of to help people who are /mean/ but really need it.
e) The Rough-Face Girl. A little picture-storybook I read once when I was about four, most likely...a Native American Cinderella story. I saw it again this year, and I didn't remember it at all until I saw the picture of the face in the sky, which I had actually remembered almost perfectly. It would be a totally random choice except that I remembered it for a reason (beauty).
5) Tag 5 people to do this meme:
I refuse to spread memes that require work! However, if my three non-HRSFen friends (sdn, lain246, and undomielregina) would do it at some point, I'd like that.
6) Comment with a book you would expect (but not already know) me to have read, or that you think I personally really should read, and why.
Elizabeth
