Books...
Tagged by Kat
1. Number of books I have owned:
Hundreds, I guess. In my uni days I was one of those "good" students who bought (& kept) everything off the set book list, so lots of them are French lit. Then a lifetime's accumulation by an accumulator with an inability to cut loose [see previous post]... Maybe about 8-900, not counting the family collection of children's books upstairs?
2. Last book I bought:
Flora I Farver (Danish wildflower book)
3. Last book I completed:
Hans Christian Andersen's unofficial autobiography, Erindringer (on holiday).
4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) – from childhood days: lonely misunderstood girl finds solace in “ a little bit of earth” & saves her hypochondriac cousin from himself (OK, so I didn’t know then that it was a sentimental Victorian “improving tale”) Online here
Thérèse Desqueyroux (François Mauriac) – from sixth form days: lonely misunderstood girl makes doomed attempt to rebel against her oppressive provincial background.
Pensées (Blaise Pascal) – from uni days: you don’t have to agree with his conclusions to admire this as the most trenchant analysis ever of the human condition.
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys) - from OU days: powerful, subversive 60s ‘prequel’ to Jane Eyre; lonely misunderstood girl goes mad.
Multi-way tie for the 5th nomination, so I’m not even going to try.
5. Which five bloggers are you gonna tag?
I’m not, sorry, cos all the bloggers I know have already been tagged by Kat or by GW.
Maybe Pyk?
1. Number of books I have owned:
Hundreds, I guess. In my uni days I was one of those "good" students who bought (& kept) everything off the set book list, so lots of them are French lit. Then a lifetime's accumulation by an accumulator with an inability to cut loose [see previous post]... Maybe about 8-900, not counting the family collection of children's books upstairs?
2. Last book I bought:
Flora I Farver (Danish wildflower book)
3. Last book I completed:
Hans Christian Andersen's unofficial autobiography, Erindringer (on holiday).
4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) – from childhood days: lonely misunderstood girl finds solace in “ a little bit of earth” & saves her hypochondriac cousin from himself (OK, so I didn’t know then that it was a sentimental Victorian “improving tale”) Online here
Thérèse Desqueyroux (François Mauriac) – from sixth form days: lonely misunderstood girl makes doomed attempt to rebel against her oppressive provincial background.
Pensées (Blaise Pascal) – from uni days: you don’t have to agree with his conclusions to admire this as the most trenchant analysis ever of the human condition.
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys) - from OU days: powerful, subversive 60s ‘prequel’ to Jane Eyre; lonely misunderstood girl goes mad.
Multi-way tie for the 5th nomination, so I’m not even going to try.
5. Which five bloggers are you gonna tag?
I’m not, sorry, cos all the bloggers I know have already been tagged by Kat or by GW.
Maybe Pyk?
posted by bluefluff @ 1:06 AM
3 Comments:
At 06 September, 2005 01:29,
Pykspeeks Rides Again said…
Eek, wassa tag? Will it hurt??? Hmmm, seems to me there's a common theme to them thar books!!
Something about lonely misunderstood girl??
:)
At 06 September, 2005 05:12,
bluefluff said…
Hiya Pyk - it just means it's your turn to answer the questions :-)
& yes, there is a bit of a theme!
At 06 September, 2005 05:16,
bluefluff said…
Multi-way tie for the 5th nomination, so I’m not even going to try.
OK, it isn't a book, it's a blog. But it's so intelligently & amusingly written that I just stayed here for 5 hours reading it.
Thanks nog for the link :-)
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