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Book ‘em

I’ve been tagged by Eva for this book meme (although, Eva’s been wrestling with semantics and technicalities ever since boning up on the history of the word itself, and hesitates to call it a meme).  But anyway… on with the show.

Number of Books I Own

According to my delicious library, I have 475 books.  But there are surely some I haven’t catalogued, and I can safely estimate a nice, round 500.

Last Book I Bought

Last weekend at the Beguiling I picked up these 3 beauties:

• Charles M. Schulz - The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956


• Tony Millionaire - Der Struwwelmaakies


• Top Shelf Editors - Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions

Last Book I Read

While in Arizona for the Reubens I read the appropriately-titled Men and Cartoons short story collection by Jonathan Lethem.  Before that I finished Bill Bryson’s Made in America.

Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me

• Dennis Lee - Alligator Pie


• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera


• Jack Ziegler - Hamburger Madness


• Ogden Nash - Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash


• Roald Dahl - The Twits

Sure, the majority of those are somewhat silly choices—but for the most part, they’re books that, as a young robot, shaped my sense of humour, and cartooning, and my love for nonsense.  I love “real” literature, too, of course—favourites include John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon, Ian McEwan, and Robertson Davies.  But in a fire I’d grab the Edward Lear, Groucho Marx, William Steig, and Dr. Seuss first.

Who’s Next?

I’m passing the torch to:

• Sarah


• 
  Patricia


• 
  James


• 
  Amanda
• The Armchair Garbageman

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