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[klwilliams]

From rustmon:

1. Total number of books I've owned:

I currently own close to 5,000, and that may be a conservative estimate. If you include those I've lost, sold, or given away, probably double it.

2. Last book I bought:

Not counting presents for the baby brother and the elder goddaughter, With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George, an excellent addition to the Linley/Havers series.

3. Last book I read:

The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey (the second or third time I've read it). I'm currently in the middle of The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters.

4. 5 books that mean a lot to me:

At various times, and for various reasons:

Alone Against Tomorrow, by Harlan Ellison

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle

The Law of Becoming, by Kate Elliott

Star Man's Son, by Andre Norton

Mephisto in Onyx, by Harlan Ellison

5. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out in their LJs:

lnhammer
mevennen
french_teacher
cvirtue
madbaker

Comments

[maryosmanski.livejournal.com]

Can I deal with this later, please? Life is particularly lifelike today and tomorrow.

[larryhammer]

I confess this one doesn't look very interesting. But I'll try.

1. Best guess is around 4500. The last time we counted, over five years ago, we had 3500, and we have more shelving now, and are down to double-stacking.

2. halseanderson's Fever 1793 and a collection of Euripedes.

3. This is where I start losing interest. Complete book? Probably Heyer's Cotillion. Which was a while ago. I've been reading a) a really long Victorian poem, which I haven't finished, and b) research stuff, which is bits and pieces hither and yon. If you count complete pieces collected, either Oedipus at Colonus or Phoenician Women, can't remember which.

4. "Five"? "Mean a lot"? What I point to when I say "a lot," I suppose. And then there's the "book" thing struggled with above. Um.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen; The Chicago Manual of Style; Metamorphoses, Ovid; Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare; Early Greek Myth, Timothy Gantz; The Wonder Clock, Howard Pyle; Orlando Furioso, Ariosto; Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling; A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie; CoPathPlus from Misys User's Guide, various; Kiss the Girls, attribution uncertain; Bones of Faerie, Janni Lee Simner. The Merriam-Webster 10th Collegiate Dictionary has just about all the meanings I want.

Bored now.

---L.

[larryhammer]

For 1, that's a best guess at current ownership. Given the rate we sell things off, I can't guess how many total.