Book meme, yay !

[salinea]

From the lovely generalblossom

1) Total number of books owned?
Lots. I don't know, a few hundreds ?

2) The last book I bought?
Prisonner of Azkaban and a random book by Sean Russel, both bargain sales.
Before that, the lattest had been Passage by Connie Willis and To Kill a Mockingbird

3) The last book I read?
Philosopher's Stone, and before that Passage.

4) 5 books that mean a lot to me?
Out of the top of my mind :

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
Amber's cycle, by Zelazny
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Leguin
A Song of Ice and Fire by GRRMartin
Lions of Al Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

5) Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their LJs:
cyrulean
elihice
hiragizawa
laurus_nobilis
wingblossom

Comments

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Hi! The site I was telling ( never pressuring, AE, I hope!) etrangere about was bookcrossing, which is mostly a tracking site, pretty anarchic, no guarantees one can get this book or another. But it can be pretty interesting, and there are things like ring-loans which are really worth it a chance to read a book if shipping books is not too expensive where you are ( Portugal got bookrates which is nice!). If not, then it might not be worth it.

And I feel the pain about lack of available books, good luck with it - my family has gotten to terms with my book buying though not sure they understand it. A tip, do you know those official english language school, the British Council? If there is a branch where you live, check their library. I have used it at home and in another country, and the library was great, full of english books ( started reading Iain Banks and Terry Pratchett there, among others), and while it was paid they had a special rate for students which ended being really reasonable specially since you could loan music and movies as well, and renew by phone. Good luck in any case.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

British Council? That sounds like the kind of things that exist in big capitals, not stupid small cities like the one I live in. Same with the bookcrossing, I doubt there's anyone in my city doing it, and I'm not traveling to another city in order to get a book that might be taken by the time I get there.

But thanks anyway.