A book meme

Total number of books owned:
I have no idea anymore. Not nearly as many as I used to own, that’s for sure. I’m running about 3 full bookcases less than usual.

Last book bought:
Bought? Like with real money as opposed to book credits from PaperbackSwap? Song In The Dark by P.N. Elrod (No. 11 in the Vampire Files series).

Last book read:
The Vanishing Point by Mary Sharratt

Five books that mean a lot to you:
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. “It’s a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.”

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. “All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?”