[meme] World Book Day!

[tamaranth]

courtesy of la_marquise_de_

Happy World Book Day, everyone!

The books I am reading: Elly Griffiths, The House at Sea's End; The World Without Us (Alan Weisman); Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks)
The book I love most: varies day to day. Very fond of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, Le Guin's Earthsea (original trilogy), Dunnett's Lymond chronicles, Ysabeau Wilce Flora Segunda, Diana Wynne Jones Eight Days of Luke, O'Brian's Aubrey / Maturin novels, Julian May's Saga of the Exiles ...
The last book I received as a gift: many books at Christmas, of which I have read few. I have read Soulless (Gail Carriger), a gift from high-heeled fishlifter.
The last book I gave as a gift: in terms of actual buying-to-give, probably The Beekeeper's Apprentice and History Play (Rodney Bolt) and Ink and Steel -- for high-heeled fishlifter at Christmas. I did give bugshaw a few spare / duplicate / stray books during library-whittling ...
The nearest book on my desk: no books, am at Werk. But I do have PDA to hand, and the first book in eReader (alphabetically) is Excession by Iain M Banks.

Reading habits have gone weird lately: I've been busily sorting through, and discarding >50% of, my library, and that plus Paid Employment have left me little time to read -- or to write up the last few books I read, which leaves them feeling unfinished, which means I don't want to start something else ...
So, in the next week or so you might expect writeups of:
Gentlemen of the Road -- MIchael Chabon
Aegypt -- John Crowley
The Poison Throne - Celine Kiernan
The Liar - Stephen Fry
Fast Women - Jennifer Crusie

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Goodness, did I make a meme?

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

What do you mean we have no books ? We have a whole seven shelves of fiscally stimulating literature. I may have Tolley's "Double tax relief" open, but that still leaves the delights of "Collective investment schemes" or "A critique of judicial review" for your delight.

am going to sulk now ...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Do not count these as Books, everyone dies in the end (also, was resolutely not looking at 'em).

GO HOME! do not sulk.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

did you love Fast Women? (I *love* Fast Women; from the running feet eggcups to the soy milk flask to the freezer to breaking the couch to smashing the icicles, but I love 'spaghetti-spined weasel' the best