Bookish Meme

[erikred]

As demanded by mumbojumble:

1) Total number of books I've owned?

Over the course of my life, enough to build a house out of. Hell, I gave up entire shopping bags full of books just moving back from Japan, and you know it's not easy building a library of English books in Japan.

2) The last book I bought?

Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi.

3) The last book I read?

I'm going to cheat and say instead the two I'm currently reading: Sex and Rockets and Hirohito and the Making of Japan.

4) Five books that mean a lot to me:

1. D'Aulaire's Norse Gods and Giants, soon to be reprinted for the first time in 19 years!
2. Demian by Herman Hesse
3. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
4. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, and the reviewers are correct in pointing out the superiority of the unabridged version; my copy was printed in the early 20s and is a delight.
5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami; of all of his incredible works, this one is the deepest, pardon the pun; worth building up to by reading other books of his first.

5) Name five people on your friends list who should do this meme:

tinymammoth, bookishfellow, hulkhero, jhonen_red, and narwhale. I've either never heard of or am not up to date with any of your reading habits, goshdarnit.

Comments

[eumenide.livejournal.com]

That is all very nice, but darn you, where are my interview answers?

Do I need to come up with better questions?

Let me add then: What should I absolutely see in Japan? ;)

[mumbojumble.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

Was I really that demanding?

I'm a fan of Murakami's, too.