Rowan Tree and Red Thread

From pyat by way of doc_mystery

1. Total number of books I own: Who knows? It's over a thousand, but I can't be sure of the exact figure. There are a few hundred books at my mother's house that belong to me but I haven't managed to move out.

2. Last book I bought: An Amazon order, so there's several books: Sethra Lavode by Steven Brust, Storm Front by Jim Butcher, The Owl Service by Alan Garner, Time-gifts (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Zoran Zivkovic and Kinds of Minds: The Origins Of Consciousness by Daniel Dennett.

3. Last book I read: Storm Front by Jim Butcher. The first of several books by Butcher about Harry Dresden, a John Constantine-like figure with Chandler private eye stylings, who works as a wizard in the peculiar occult world in Chicago. Pretty good, and interesting enough to make me look for other books in the series.

4. Five books that I have read a lot or mean a lot to me, for whatever reason:

• Douglas Hoftsader's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, for a delightful romp through more topics than I can remember and provoking many odd thoughts.


• Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, for being the book it is.


• Lois McMaster Bujold's Komarr, for introducing me to Bujold's work, Miles Vorkosigan and a beautiful mix of space opera and romance.


• Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained, for clarifying a lot of questions about cognition and consciousness, and providing me with endless snippets to bother Sam with while we read in bed.


• and whatever it is I'm enthused about at the moment, varying day by day.

5: Five suckers/friends who can answer these questions for themselves, if they like:

You know the drill. Sort it out amongst yourselves.