I’ve also been tagged by Flo to participate in the book meme… It’s been a while since I’ve sat down to read anything. I went through a brief and wonderful period where I could read while lying down and nursing Natalie. Those days are over now that she eats books (for proof, check out Natalie’s blog). Maybe it’s just her way of establishing a voracious appetite for words, which she no doubt gets from both her parents…
My current reading list:
- Grace is Where I Live by John Leax
- The Baby Book by Dr. Sears (This is the first time in a long time that I’m not currently nibbling on a half-dozen books at once…)
Total number of books in my library:
- 371, according to Library Thing, though we have more that aren’t listed, so perhaps as many as 500
Last book finished:
- Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts by Fiona Giles
- Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (I can’t remember which one I finished most recently)
Last book bought:
- No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty (I toyed with the idea of participating in NaNoWriMo. I decided I’d rather make Christmas cards.)
Five meaningful books (besides the Bible):
- The Complete Cooking Light Cookbook (I love to cook and have learned so much from this book)
- The Great Divorce by CS Lewis
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Bret wooed me with this book)
- AP Stylebook (I’ve used it every day of my journalistic career)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (his use of language is beautiful and inspiring)
Five favorite books:
- Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury (it’s hard to pick just one Bradbury book as a favorite — I love them all)
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (I loved this book so much in high school that I kept the school copy — I paid for it, of course)
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (I remember my dad reading this to me when I was little)
- The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher
- Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts by Fiona Giles
I tag: Susan Sullivan, Daja, Maggie, and Jen
Mmm…books. Our friend Flo tagged us with some book questions and I finally have a minute or two to respond. Here goes:
My currently reading list:
- Songwriters on Songwriting by Paul Zollo
- The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982
- The 2006 International Building Code (not really a joke…I just got a big project with a strict deadline assigned to me, so I need to become an expert in the new code in short order)
- This is not even close to the complete list of books that I’m in the middle of, but they are the ones I’ll be reading if I find any free time.
Total number of books in my library:
- Well, we have 371 listed in Library Thing plus various cookbooks, little kid books, etc. Maybe 450-500 total?
Last book finished:
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Modern, quirky, and ethereal…I liked it. Fair warning if you read it: there is one disturbingly violent scene, but at least it’s not unnecessary.)
Last book(s) bought (I can’t remember which was most recent):
- Songwriters on Songwriting by Paul Zollo
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
5 meaningful books: (to me? for people in general? eh…I’ll mix and match)
- The Bible (of course…I like NIV & ESV)
- Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist by John Piper (the intro and first few chapters rocked my world the first time I read them)
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (most meaningful because of the people I’ve read it to)
- The art books I used to read at Grandma and Grandpa Wingo’s house
- I don’t know about #5…I’ll fill this hole for now with Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down by Marva Dawn because it’s a good book that could use a shout-out.
5 favorite books:
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (again, for different reasons now than in the past)
- Whales on Stilts by M. T. Anderson (a young adult’s book, and a fantastic one)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (although this one does feel a little bit obligatory)
I tag: my brother Ryan, Brian Kay, Garret Hamner, Greg Hamerly, and Jim Richards. (That is, if any of you ever read this…if you respond, leave a comment here!)
