Tag I am it
Erika sent me another interview thing. Here are her questions:
1) Total number of books in your house:
2) The last book you bought was:
3) What was the last book you read before reading this?
4) Write down 5 books you often read or that mean a lot to you.
5) Who are you going to pass the stick to (three people) and why?
Here are my answers:
1) 495 in my office plus 250 in Christopher’s (approx.) equals 745.
2) Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz. The thing is, I buy from Myopic Books on Milwaukee, hands down the greatest used bookstore on the planet. If it’s really new and Myopic doesn’t have it yet (and I can’t wait for it) I call Up Quimby’s on North Avenue and they’ll order it. I’d prefer to give my money to these two; however, I read a review of Nice Big American Baby and got all worked up over it. I couldn’t even wait the three days it would’ve taken Quimby’s to get it, so I bought it at (gasp) a B&N (I’m such a hypocrite, I swear). But it’s worth it: a woman wants to deliver her baby in the United States so she holds it in until she can get over the border. By the time she does, it’s three years later. So she gives birth to a three-year-old. That’s genius, I tell you, genius.
3) I read a few at a time. Right now it’s Nice Big American Baby, All This Heavenly Glory (Elizabeth Crane), Love and Hatred (a bio of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy) and East of Eden. Again.
4) See list to your immediate right.
5) Christopher (because he’s working crazy hours and needs reasons to think about fun things like books and blogs). Betsy (because I want to find out what she’s reading so I can read it, ‘cause I dig her taste in books and the books she writes and all of it). And back at’cha, Erika (‘cause I’d like to know more stuff about you before you and Mike and Slammer come to dinner this week, and books are the best place for me to start).
Comments
1. It would take way too long to give you any sort of accurate count here so let's see, on some sort of mathematical basis, between me and Ben, downstairs and upstairs, not including journals, it's probably around a thousand. The most accurate answer is: too many.
2. Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman.
3. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.
4. You know, I'm not a big rereader for pleasure because when I do it I can never really recapture the exact feeling I got the first time. Plus there are always too damn many new ones to read.
5. I dunno, maybe Anne H., I'll have to think about it.
Posted by: Betsy | May 3, 2005 10:04 AM