Book Meme...

[tabaqui]

Yay! I got tapped not once but twice! This looked really interesting, so yay! And thank you txrabbit and darkhavens.

1. Total Number of Books I've Owned: That would be in the thousands. Never actually counted them but, yeah.

2. Last Book I Bought: My memory is atrocious but I think it was a copy of The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster. Gift for the daughter of a friend.

3. Last Book I Read: C J Cherryh's Destroyer.

4. Five Books that Mean a Lot to Me: Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

5. Tag Five People and Have Them Post This on Their Live Journals: Ah ha ha! Ummmm. If you've already been tapped and posted, sorry!
reremouse, _beetle_, sweptawaybayou, chocogood84 and ladycat777. There! Variety and diversity! I hope. Heee.


Also made myself a new icon.

Comments

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

I love the layout on your lj. :)

When do we get to see your new icon? Is that it? Very cool.

jan

[tabaqui]

Oh, thank you!
:)

Yup, that's it, the kind of James Dean-ish one.
Wheee!

[vampirefever.livejournal.com]

Love the words on your icon.
*covets*

[tabaqui]

Heeee.
Thank you!
*pets icon*

[trishabooms.livejournal.com]

The Phantom Tollbooth, bloody hell that brought back memories. I loved that story when I was little!

[tabaqui]

SUCH a fun book!
It still reads great.
:)

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Hah! Love the icon!

And alright, okay, I'll do it :)

*smooch*

[tabaqui]

Thank you thank you!!
And yay, you did it!!
:)

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

i did, i did!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

The icon is delicous!

Watership Down makes me cry every time I read it. And every time I watch my copy of the animation. ::sniffles::

Thanks for playing! :D

[tabaqui]

Thanks!

Yup, makes me cry, too. And i love, love, love the opening lines.
It also introduced me to poets that i now know and love.
:)

[vichan.livejournal.com]

I have read Watership Down so many times I've had to buy additional copies. (I'm on my third. Seriously.) AMAZING novel.

[tabaqui]

Oh man, yeah. My copy is bound in layers and layers of tape, and my name and phone number witten on the inside front cover in my twelve-year-old handwriting. Heh.

I need a new copy - before this on disintegrates. Gonna look at http://www.abebooks.com - they have lots of editions to chose from.

[anelith.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, would I have guess that Watership Down would be on that list? Think so! :-)

My mom gave Evan the Phantom Tollbooth last year, but I can't get him in the frame of mind to read it. However, I reread it, and enjoyed it again immensely (got to love anything with puns, especially logic and grammar ones). Evan is completely in love with dinosaurs right now and is currently immersed in the huge DK encyclopedia of same; I'm not sure when he's going to emerge and be interested in fiction again. I got him to read Dinotopia, at least...

[tabaqui]

Hehehe. Yup. Love that book.

Phantom Toolbooth is definitely an 'age' kind of thing. I liked it the first time i read it but was a bit young to 'get' all of it.
But i still loved the word-play, and it just got better.