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anne_dJulia, I hope this is what you wanted. If not, well, too bad, I'm busy reading right now.
1. Total number of books in my house (rough estimate) over 4,000
2. Last book I bought: A used copy of The Deeper Meaning of Liff, for $0.50 at the La Habra PTA Thrift Shop. I also have a copy of Embeadery, about combining beads with traditional embroidery stitches, coming shortly from Amazon.
3. Book I am currently reading: Intensive Scare Unit by J.S. Borthwick, after which I'm going to reread the series, in order.
4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
This is hard.
Gaudy Night, just because it feels so good to read it; I reread GN about once a year. There's something reaffirming about the book.
Beautiful Necessity, the art and meaning of women's altars by Kay Turner. This is how I learned that any collection of things important to you, from a table full of family pictures to a shelf in the kitchen with plants, vases of flowers, and a Kwan Yin, is an altar. It got me unblocked creatively so that I could set up my goddess altar shelf; one of these days, I'm going to organize the animal totem one.
Art & Inspirations by Judith Baker Montano. Full of beautiful pictures of quilting and embroidery; it's fun to look at and gets me thinking about creating things.
Two books by Georgette Heyer, which I read when I have the flu or feel otherwise yucky: Cotillion, because it's silly, and fun, and the nice ordinary guy wins in the end, and A Civil Contract, because it's about the ordinary things; making a marriage work, raising children, becoming a family.
More books: Pretty much anything by Nevil Shute, especially Trustee From the Toolroom (I've always wanted to see Bob Hoskins play the lead), Round the Bend and In the Wet. I discovered Nevil Shute in my dad's library when I was in high school, and have loved his books ever since. Rita Mae Brown's semi-autobiographical Six of One and Bingo. Dorothy Dunnett's two historical series. Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, which I think I've enticed Kitty to read when she's done with Narnia. The various girls were role models for me when I was in elementary school - they had a wide range of interests, and unlike Susan in the Narnia books, they never outgrew them.
1. Total number of books in my house (rough estimate) over 4,000
2. Last book I bought: A used copy of The Deeper Meaning of Liff, for $0.50 at the La Habra PTA Thrift Shop. I also have a copy of Embeadery, about combining beads with traditional embroidery stitches, coming shortly from Amazon.
3. Book I am currently reading: Intensive Scare Unit by J.S. Borthwick, after which I'm going to reread the series, in order.
4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
This is hard.
Gaudy Night, just because it feels so good to read it; I reread GN about once a year. There's something reaffirming about the book.
Beautiful Necessity, the art and meaning of women's altars by Kay Turner. This is how I learned that any collection of things important to you, from a table full of family pictures to a shelf in the kitchen with plants, vases of flowers, and a Kwan Yin, is an altar. It got me unblocked creatively so that I could set up my goddess altar shelf; one of these days, I'm going to organize the animal totem one.
Art & Inspirations by Judith Baker Montano. Full of beautiful pictures of quilting and embroidery; it's fun to look at and gets me thinking about creating things.
Two books by Georgette Heyer, which I read when I have the flu or feel otherwise yucky: Cotillion, because it's silly, and fun, and the nice ordinary guy wins in the end, and A Civil Contract, because it's about the ordinary things; making a marriage work, raising children, becoming a family.
More books: Pretty much anything by Nevil Shute, especially Trustee From the Toolroom (I've always wanted to see Bob Hoskins play the lead), Round the Bend and In the Wet. I discovered Nevil Shute in my dad's library when I was in high school, and have loved his books ever since. Rita Mae Brown's semi-autobiographical Six of One and Bingo. Dorothy Dunnett's two historical series. Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, which I think I've enticed Kitty to read when she's done with Narnia. The various girls were role models for me when I was in elementary school - they had a wide range of interests, and unlike Susan in the Narnia books, they never outgrew them.
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Date: 2005-05-19 02:49 am (UTC)I read These Old Shades apart when I was in high school, so fannish I was about it that my sister still teases me about it.
And yes, this what I meant.
Julia, lovely stuff...
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Date: 2005-05-19 02:59 am (UTC)I can still remember 'Didcot' as the word for the little paper circles made when a ticket gets punched; and I would use it in conversation except that in maybe fifteen years I've never had a conversation in which it would be remotely relevant.
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Date: 2005-05-19 01:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-19 07:32 am (UTC)