About My Books
Picking up [via Euan] on the book thingamebob …
Total number of books I have owned:
Too many - I know I should take books out from the library, but for some reason it’s not the same …
Last book I bought:
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
Last Book I read:
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
Five books that mean a lot to me:
Almost impossible, but off the top:
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak - was my favourite when a bairn
The Outsider by Colin Wilson - for a bookish, teenage angry/hormonal/relatively-spot-free young man
The Pearl by John Steinbeck - taught me a lot about grit, beauty and greed.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie - small but perfectly formed
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - large but perfectly formed.
Which five Bloggers am I passing this on to:
Absolutely no idea - anyone who reads this.
“I know I should take books out from the library, but for some reason it’s not the same …”: I feel the same about that. There were times when money was much, much tighter, that I used the library more extensively for pleasure reading, but would still later try to buy the books that I liked best..
I wish I had thought of Euan’s and now your solution to the “five bloggers” question. Oh, and thanks for reminding me of Sendak’s book; that was a favorite for reading to my son too.
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Books are themselves a theme of my research, in that until the age of 40-something I hardly read any, that weren’t either set texts, or “text books” of some kind, so I’m a kind of “born-again-reader”.
As such I now own hundreds - like you, borrowing them just isn’t the same - worse still I have the habit of heavily annotating the ones that impress me, often to the point of having to buy a second readable copy.
I recently continued a very similar meme - 5 books you’re embarassed to admit you’ve never read. Fancy trying that one.
Hi Ian
5 books I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve never read? Yikes! That’s really hard. The only thing I can really think of is being an arts grad with very limited Shakespeare knowledge - that often comes up - and perhaps Phaedrus … but let me think abhout it some more. I suspect there’ll be a number of classics in there - e.g. Remembrance of things past, but I’m not really sure I’m “embarrassed” about not having read them - I’m more vaguely aware that I probably ought to read them.