Time Enough To Read
Usually I don't like to participate in these type of navel gazing activities, but I've been tapped by Doug at Bogus Gold and I hate to think what he might do if I don't respond (I really need to get my laptop drinkproofed). Here goes...
Total number of books owned, ever:
Impossible to answer. I've loved books since I was a kid. Not just reading them, but owning them. I have become much better in recent years at turning over my books (especially paperbacks). That, and the book "borrowing" black hole known as JB Doubtless, serve to help keep my current collection manageable.
Last book I bought:
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through. Bought but have not yet read.
Last book I read:
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.
Five books that mean a lot to me:
That's easy.
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Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World
The Embarrassed Believer
In, But Not Of : A Guide to Christian Ambition
First Principles : A Primer of Ideas for the College Bound Student
If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It
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(Note: if you add up all five of Hugh's books they total 1087 pages, an average of 217 per volume. Bill Clinton's "My Life" stretches to 1056 pages all by itself.)
Seriously, this is a difficult question. What does "mean a lot to me" really mean anyway? Books that influenced my thinking? Books that hold fond memories for me? I suppose that's part of the "fun" in doing this little exercise. My list includes some of both.
Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 by Strauss and Howe. You won't look at history the same way again.
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Short but significant look at what it means to be a Christian.
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek. Why markets work and socialism doesn't.
The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I received this book for Christmas many years ago and have probably read it through ten different times. But the stories and characters never get old for me. I could pick it up today and enjoying reading it again as much as I did the first time.
The Hardy Boys series by Franklin Dixon. I loved reading the Hardy Boys when I was young. I can remember getting three or four of the hardcover books one year at Christmas (note: I also received hockey sticks and guns so don't even think about playing the nerd card) and the excitement and anticipation they generated. I couldn't wait to burrow myself in my room and read them through cover to cover. And I still have a handful of them with me today.
Next!:
Saint Paul has already been hit but just for the sake of getting these SOBs to post something, I will pass this assignment along to Atomizer and JB Doubtless.
For the same reason, let's see what Michael J Nelson has to say.
And Eloise at SPITBULL.
Last but not least, how about the Educated Heel over at The Kool Aid Report? Seems like something that would be right up his alley.
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