Blog Tag! Books...

Whitney tagged me, so here I go:

• Total Number of Books I've Owned:
  OY. Two degrees and a lifetime of Stephen King? How could one quanitfy? Well let's see.... If one presumes an average of 2 books per college course taken. and I've taken about 60 college courses (!!!), that's about 120 books right there. Add in pre-college purchases and gifts, and post college indulgences, and NOT including the countless articles and journals I've read, and I'd say well over 200? But who can really say? Some I've sold back, some I still have, some are lost, some on loan...
• The Last Book I Bought:
  There were four books bought at a local used book store (Amherst is a town of 30,000 and there are THREE used bookstores. Not including University bookstores. That's alot of used books!): Two from the Penguin Series of Good Ideas: Darwin's On Natural Selection, Orwell's Why I Write, Edward Gorey's Donald and The ... and a collection of papers on cognition.
• The Last Book I Read:
  I'm in the last 5th of LOTR: ROTK, at the end of Kitchen Confidential, and at the beginning of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. I usually read one book at a time, but due to travel and illness schedules (The Godel etc. book, while good, doesn't lend itself to airline reading quite like Kitchen Confidential, and LOTR is a bi-annual comfort read) I'm in the middle of three!
• Five Books That Mean Something To Me:
  UGH, hm, okay, only five? LOTR, 1984, The Hay Day Country Market Cookbook, Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep, The Princess Bride, and while not a book per se, the 'book' of hand-drawn comic book characters my brother made for me when I went away to college, and this isn't counting graphic novels like the Watchmen and Ronin, . Yeah I know that's six. So sue me. :)