Baa (ie, the book meme)

[caulkhead]

The book(s) I am reading: The Whaleboat House by Mark Mills (murder mystery; not particularly original, but well written and I am enjoying it), The Children's Book by A S Byatt, The Mariner's Role in Collecting Evidence (work, for review). Dipping in and out of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The book I am writing: Does Sherlock fic count?

The book I love most: What, one? I can't even choose one author.

The last book I received as a gift: Just My Type by Simon Garfield,

The last book I gave as a gift: Ankaret Well's Requite novels, to sillymouse. Or they will be, when I get to the post office.

The nearest book on my desk: I'm on the sofa. Even tie between To Love and be Wise by Josephine Tey, a foot to my left, Don't Sweat the Aubergine by Nicholas Clee, to my right, and Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones on the coffee table (this gives a fairly accurate picture of my domestic arrangements, I fear). On my desk at work; probably the Guardian style guide.

An interesting question that wasn't on this meme: How many books do you have in your house that don't belong to you and/or your partner? Between borrowing from libraries, friends, and books that were - er - inadvertently long term borrowed (only one! honest!), I reckon between 30 and 40.

ETA I can't count. More like 20, I think - still surprised it's not more.

Comments

[perennialanna]

I don't think I currently have any of yours, but am open to correction.

Four library books of my own, four of L's that I am guarantor for, six books of my mother's, two on extremely extended loan. It was rather more, but she visited last week and I managed to hand back a fair-sized pile.

[caulkhead]

At least three of yours, not counting DVDs, four or five of aella_irene's, two of pashazade's, three of my mothers, two of my brother's, seven from assorted libraries,

BTW, is BSG season 4 yours? There are at least three people I might have borrowed it from, and I can't remember which it was.

[perennialanna]

Yes it is - or at least, mine's missing, and I haven't lent BSG to anyone else.

[oursin]

I think I still have 2 or 3 Angela Thirkells of coughingbear's around somewhere...

[caulkhead]

I've thought of at least another two since posting this - I always mean to keep all the Borrowed Books together in one place for ease of returning, but it doesn't seem to work.

[ankaret]

I always try to do that too, but it never seems to happen. I have between five and ten of aella_irene's books about the place, and probably about ten more of other people's.

[aella_irene]

I manage to keep them all in the same place! (Four of yours, some library books, and lots of books that I borrowed from my mother.)