My Life, As Told Between (Baby Cakes') Naps

I’m way too busy to be doing this, but I’m also entirely too easily distracted, so here goes. I’ve been taged by Geeky Chic’s Ms. E for this meme. See below and then watch out because if you have a blog and I know you (sadly, this number is all too small), you’re next.

1) Total # of books you own?
Including trashy romance / chick lit / mystery / sci-fi / children’s books as well as the “serious” ones, probably close to a thousand.

2) What was the last book you bought?
I have several books on my to be read pile, but the last one I purchased and haven’t cracked open was Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. I’ve heard mixed reviews, but am interested enough that I’ll eventually read it. Judging from my schedule this will most likely occur when it ceases to be even marginally relevant.

3) What’s the last book you read?
Non-Fiction: The United States of Wal-Mart. Nothing earth-shattering (Wal-Mart’s evil, what’s new?), but well written, entertaining and more balanced than I expected.

Fiction: The Historian. This book, about the search for Dracula, has gotten a lot of buzz. For its subject matter, it’s more literary than sensational, but I agree with most of the reviews – starts out well, but drags in the middle and has an anticlimatic ending.
4) List five books that are particularly meaningful to you (in no particular order) [Note: This requires entirely too much time to answer with any depth, so here’s the long and short of it. Read into it what you will.]

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (it was either this or 1984 and I didn’t want to steal two of Ms. E’s books!)

Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio

Shel Silverstein’s The Missing Piece

William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

5) Tag 5 people and have them fill the quiz out on their own blogs.
The Wombat, The Frog, G, KQ, KA

Sorry for the lack of updates.  I’m going to trial in about three weeks, so I’m deep in the trenches.  The “war room” is all set up and we’re getting ready to settle in for the long haul.  Sigh.  I probably won’t see the light of day again for the next few weeks.  Pray for me!  (Speaking of which, I was kneeling next to a box on the ground, looking for a document the other day when the MP walks by.  Noticing me, he stops right in front of me silently until I looked up.  He then placed both hands on the side of my head and said, “Heal my child.  Heal!”, smiled and walked away.)

WOTWIFLI, compliments of CH although not necessarily apropos of anything in my life at the moment, is schadenfreude.