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HOW MANY BOOKS DO YOU HAVE?
A couple thousand. And the Nashville library system kicks ass.
NAME THE LAST BOOK YOU BOUGHT:
Fritz Kredel exhibition catalog. Before that, Japanese for Dummies.
NAME THE LAST BOOK YOU FINISHED:
A Midsummer Night's Scream by Jill Churchill. A good break from Richard Jefferies's Wood Magic,Jefferies being a Victorian naturalist and mystic whose prose is infected with a sentimentality so nauseating it's unintentionally hilarious. If I had realized what I was getting into, I would have started a drinking game with myself: a shot of JD each time a forest animal or element addressesthe spoiled brat as "(my) dear Bevis."
NAME THE LAST BOOK YOU READ:
Just started Katherine Harmon's You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination.
LIST FIVE BOOKS THAT MEAN SOMETHING TO YOU
Strong Poison, by Dorothy L. Sayers. The first Lord Peter Wimsey novel I heard on the radio, effectively triggering a chain of events that later included a guest room in Edinburgh with a pair of football devotees and their Pomeranian.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Also responsible for a fair amount of mischief, including thirty bucks lost at the racetrack last year.
Collected Poems of Thomas Wyatt.
Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnal. Yes, it has its clunkers, but "Dear Weaver of Our Lives' Design" is as responsible as anything else for why I finally joined a church.
Paris Out of Hand by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson and Nick Bantock. My favorite travel guide. (Note: I've not yet been to Paris.)
FIVE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD DO THIS TOO:
Anyone who feels so moved. (I admit I've lost track of who's already been "It.")
carapace_green:HOW MANY BOOKS DO YOU HAVE?
A couple thousand. And the Nashville library system kicks ass.
NAME THE LAST BOOK YOU BOUGHT:
Fritz Kredel exhibition catalog. Before that, Japanese for Dummies.
NAME THE LAST BOOK YOU FINISHED:
A Midsummer Night's Scream by Jill Churchill. A good break from Richard Jefferies's Wood Magic,Jefferies being a Victorian naturalist and mystic whose prose is infected with a sentimentality so nauseating it's unintentionally hilarious. If I had realized what I was getting into, I would have started a drinking game with myself: a shot of JD each time a forest animal or element addresses
NAME THE LAST BOOK YOU READ:
Just started Katherine Harmon's You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination.
LIST FIVE BOOKS THAT MEAN SOMETHING TO YOU
Strong Poison, by Dorothy L. Sayers. The first Lord Peter Wimsey novel I heard on the radio, effectively triggering a chain of events that later included a guest room in Edinburgh with a pair of football devotees and their Pomeranian.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Also responsible for a fair amount of mischief, including thirty bucks lost at the racetrack last year.
Collected Poems of Thomas Wyatt.
Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnal. Yes, it has its clunkers, but "Dear Weaver of Our Lives' Design" is as responsible as anything else for why I finally joined a church.
Paris Out of Hand by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson and Nick Bantock. My favorite travel guide. (Note: I've not yet been to Paris.)
FIVE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD DO THIS TOO:
Anyone who feels so moved. (I admit I've lost track of who's already been "It.")