All good people read good books now your conscience is clear

[purplerabbits]

Book meme, so I can use my reading rabbit icon - hurrah!

1)Total number of books owned:
I think it's about 900 that are mine and not Sandy's. Am torn between going up to the full thousand and culling some so I can move...

2)The last book I bought:
I bought a pile from Barnardo's all at once: The Seventh Raven by Peter Dickinson, The Dramaturges of Yan by John Brunner, Petrified by Barbara Nadel (not good), and The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie.

3) The last book I read: The Moving Finger

4) Five books that mean a lot to me:

• The Dispossessed by Ursula leGuin because it almost totally sums up my political position
  
• The Blue Hawk by Peter Dickinson because it's weird and beautiful and says something about people's relationship with gods
  
• The Stone That Never Came Down by John Brunner, because it's optimistic and I'd love to believe it
  
• Fourth Mansions by R A Lafferty because it's insane and inspired
  
• Peter's Room by Antonia Forest because it comes from my childhood and talks about how imaginary worlds can drive you a bit mad

Comments

[lovingboth]

Once you get to a thousand, you begin to think 'Why not two thou..."

You end up with a loft full, especially if you think hardbacks are nicer (and often cheaper) than paperbacks.

[booklectica]

I like The Moving Finger. I am firmly of the opniion that Agatha Christie is actually an extremely good writer.

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

I dont know about extremely good but she is certainly very skilful. A little too formulaic to make *extremely* good though IMHO.

[booklectica]

You may be right - I read lots of her books when I was quite young so I find it difficult to be objective, because I loved them so much. Now when I read them all the characters seem very real because of that early conditioning. Other people seem to find her characters less convincing, so this may be just me.

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent icon :)

I think I shall propogate this meme, since I've finally admitted that I am trying for my height in books this year.