Thanks KOM...I was expecting a holiday weekend......
Instead I come home from a long week away from home to find I have homework assignments! hah!
Just kidding...
Total number of books I've owned....
This one could be quite difficult. Books were the one thing it was extremely hard for me to part with when I decided to make the move to this country. Even if I never planned to re-read the book, I felt some sort of proprietary kinship to a book I had purchased and devoured. I ended up boxing up my books there and donating them to the nursing home around the corner from my home in Ontario. There were probably six boxes of books so I will guess about 500. Since I have been here, I have somehow managed to acquire approximately 200 or so. This number does not even come close to the number of books I have actually read because I was a huge fan of the library when I was younger and couldn't afford books.
Last book I bought...
Easy enough to remember because it was last weekend, my husband and I went out for dinner with friends and we all stopped into Borders (always a dangerous proposition....) I bought The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams... I started reading it while I was out of town but I confess I didn't get very far...by the time I got back to the hotel at night I was either too tired to really give the book much attention or yakking on the phone.
The last book I read...
The last book I read was actually a series... by George R. R. Martin.. A Song of Ice and Fire. I believe I actually recommended them to a couple of bloggy people I thought would really enjoy them. My husband and both loved them. The only down side would be that by the time we finished the third book in the series, the fourth was not yet published...we have been waiting for over a year now and apparently it is due to come out this June!
Five books that mean a lot to me...
My most cherished book(s) of all time would have to be my complete set of Shakespeare. A) because Willie simply rocks and his writing to me at least, is timeless and B) because my husband loved me enough to indulge me and buy it for me for Christmas....it was published in 1908 and is in remarkable condition...complete with illustrations and the fine tissue paper to protect the illustrations. Some of the pages are actually still joined together, which is a shame because I will never read those pages, but I want to keep them in the condition that they are in.
Another book I cherished deeply and still think of fondly was a children's book entitled: I'd Like To Be.... and is about a small child dreaming of all the really amazing things he/she will do when they grow up and then deciding in the end that the absolute best thing in the world to be..is 'me'.
Charlotte's Web. I can't explain this really except to say that I was really young when I read it and even then it made me cry. It has always been one book that gets me every time.
Lord of the Rings. I was pretty young when I took this book on...maybe 11 or 12. I don't think that I got most of it at that age, but I read it cover to cover and I was so proud that made it through. I like to think it prepared me well for my future husband. I must have known I would marry a D&D geek. So it gave me an early appreciation for fantasy.
And lastly, you may find this funny but I absolutely adore the Dictionary. I have a voracious appetite for words and I find myself using it whenever I run across a word I don't recognize. I would not say that it is an enticing read by any stretch of the imagination...but it is definitely a book that has gotten a TON of 'me time' over the years.
and now......I get to pick five people - who will either love me for thinking of them...or hate me for making them think....the 'weiners' are :
My hub... : because I owe him for the 'wall of No' post.
Jerk : just because I am still trying to figure out if my husband and he are actually one person!
Walker because he tagged me ...so now I get to tag him back!
Mr. Haney : because he usually has something interesting to say.
Brian : because I can!
Just kidding...
Total number of books I've owned....
This one could be quite difficult. Books were the one thing it was extremely hard for me to part with when I decided to make the move to this country. Even if I never planned to re-read the book, I felt some sort of proprietary kinship to a book I had purchased and devoured. I ended up boxing up my books there and donating them to the nursing home around the corner from my home in Ontario. There were probably six boxes of books so I will guess about 500. Since I have been here, I have somehow managed to acquire approximately 200 or so. This number does not even come close to the number of books I have actually read because I was a huge fan of the library when I was younger and couldn't afford books.
Last book I bought...
Easy enough to remember because it was last weekend, my husband and I went out for dinner with friends and we all stopped into Borders (always a dangerous proposition....) I bought The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams... I started reading it while I was out of town but I confess I didn't get very far...by the time I got back to the hotel at night I was either too tired to really give the book much attention or yakking on the phone.
The last book I read...
The last book I read was actually a series... by George R. R. Martin.. A Song of Ice and Fire. I believe I actually recommended them to a couple of bloggy people I thought would really enjoy them. My husband and both loved them. The only down side would be that by the time we finished the third book in the series, the fourth was not yet published...we have been waiting for over a year now and apparently it is due to come out this June!
Five books that mean a lot to me...
My most cherished book(s) of all time would have to be my complete set of Shakespeare. A) because Willie simply rocks and his writing to me at least, is timeless and B) because my husband loved me enough to indulge me and buy it for me for Christmas....it was published in 1908 and is in remarkable condition...complete with illustrations and the fine tissue paper to protect the illustrations. Some of the pages are actually still joined together, which is a shame because I will never read those pages, but I want to keep them in the condition that they are in.
Another book I cherished deeply and still think of fondly was a children's book entitled: I'd Like To Be.... and is about a small child dreaming of all the really amazing things he/she will do when they grow up and then deciding in the end that the absolute best thing in the world to be..is 'me'.
Charlotte's Web. I can't explain this really except to say that I was really young when I read it and even then it made me cry. It has always been one book that gets me every time.
Lord of the Rings. I was pretty young when I took this book on...maybe 11 or 12. I don't think that I got most of it at that age, but I read it cover to cover and I was so proud that made it through. I like to think it prepared me well for my future husband. I must have known I would marry a D&D geek. So it gave me an early appreciation for fantasy.
And lastly, you may find this funny but I absolutely adore the Dictionary. I have a voracious appetite for words and I find myself using it whenever I run across a word I don't recognize. I would not say that it is an enticing read by any stretch of the imagination...but it is definitely a book that has gotten a TON of 'me time' over the years.
and now......I get to pick five people - who will either love me for thinking of them...or hate me for making them think....the 'weiners' are :
My hub... : because I owe him for the 'wall of No' post.
Jerk : just because I am still trying to figure out if my husband and he are actually one person!
Walker because he tagged me ...so now I get to tag him back!
Mr. Haney : because he usually has something interesting to say.
Brian : because I can!
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