Another MEME on Books & Reading
I adopt this meme from Candy Box, a neatly done blog from Taiwan. The original text, of course, is in Chinese, so I have translated and rewritten the questions here. Reciprocate in the comment field or post your answers on your blog.
1. How many books are in your collection?
On the shelves probably 500, plus five sealed cases of books. I buy at least 2 a week.
2. What are you reading now?
1. How many books are in your collection?
On the shelves probably 500, plus five sealed cases of books. I buy at least 2 a week.
2. What are you reading now?
- The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, Michael Warner (continuation reading of Covering: The Hidden Assault of Civil Rights, Kenji Yoshino)
- Virtual Normal, Andrew Sullivan (the oppsoing school to Michael Warner's perspective, another further reading of Yoshino)
- Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and Other Trials from My Queer Life, Michael Thomas Ford
- Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
- Adrift on the Nile, Naguib Mahfouz
- The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil, Nikolai Gogol
3. What are some of the books you want to read?
- War and Peace (translated by Michael Burn), Leo Tolstoy
- The Page Turner, David Leavitt
- Almost Like Being in Love, Steve Kluger
- Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life, Steven Seidman
- Selected Writings, Meister Eckhart
4. What is your most recent acquisition?
- The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, Michael Warner
- Virtual Normal, Andrew Sullivan
I've been on a binge of civil rigts, gay rights, and social assimilation. So there you go. I have never read this many non-fiction at once. It's quite a change of rhythm for me.
5. Which five books register the most in you?
2 Comments:
I meme'd this one just a few moments ago. I like your book selections!
Here's Greg's entry to the Meme...
1. How many books are in your collection?
According to LibraryThing, I own roughly 350 books, most of which rest every-which-way on my shelves and along my entertainment center.
2. What are you reading now?
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett (a young woman becoming a doctor against societal rules during the late 1800's)
A Fable by William Faulkner (struggling with this one as it is such a departure writing-wise from his other works)
Blackbird by Larry Duplechan
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
Best Murder of the Year by Jon P. Bloch
3. What are some of the books you want to read?
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
Rhadopis of Nubia by Naghuib Mahfouz
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Frontiers by Michael Jensen
4. What is your most recent acquisition?
Best Murder of the Year by Jon P. Bloch
5. Which five books register the most in you?
Like People in History by Felice Picano
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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