A different book meme
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chickenfeetA (Different) Book Meme for a Sunday
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Who can resist a book meme?
The book that’s been on your shelves the longest.
I think that would be a set of four figure tables that I have had since prep school. I also have a slide rule.
A book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time).
There are so many of these. There are obscure political titles from my activist days like Eric Preston's "Labour in Crisis" and Geoff Hodgson's "Trotsky and Fatalisic Marxism". There are university textbooks like Paul Halmos' "Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces" and Cox and Miller's "The Theory of Stochastic Processes". There are also climbing guides for loads of places where I suspect I will never climb again.
A book you acquired in some interesting way.
I have lots of review copies, mainly anti-apartheid stuff. I think the books I won as school prizes disintegrated years ago. I have a collection of short stories for children called "Animal Ghosts" which was given to me by the author of one of the stories, a former girlfriend.
The book that’s been with you to the most places.
"The Pocket Book of Modern Verse" ed. Oscar Williams. It's the book I take when I can have only one book for any length of time like backpacking or canoeing trips.
The most recent addition to your shelves.
A recent delivery from the Folio Society MRD Foot's "SOE" and Thaddeus Holt's "The Deceivers".
Your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next.
Just finished Christopher Tyerman's "God's War; a New History of the Crusades". (highly recommended if you like that sort of thing) and John Buchan's "Mr. Standfast" (also worth reading. Probably the best of the Hannay stories). Currently reading John Buchan's "Three Hostages" and Cain and Hopkins'"British Imperialism 1688-2000". I'm also dipping into John Aubrey's "Brief Lives". Next up are the two books referenced in the last question.
(adding) The book that has the most personal meaning for you
It would be my copy of Gide's "Thesée" with the woodcuts by Abram Krol. The late Walter Strachan showed me his copy when I was 15 or 16 and I fell in love. I never really thought that I would own a copy but then I found one for sale in the Netherlands for a non ridiculous price just a few years ago and snapped it up.
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intertextWho can resist a book meme?
The book that’s been on your shelves the longest.
I think that would be a set of four figure tables that I have had since prep school. I also have a slide rule.
A book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time).
There are so many of these. There are obscure political titles from my activist days like Eric Preston's "Labour in Crisis" and Geoff Hodgson's "Trotsky and Fatalisic Marxism". There are university textbooks like Paul Halmos' "Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces" and Cox and Miller's "The Theory of Stochastic Processes". There are also climbing guides for loads of places where I suspect I will never climb again.
A book you acquired in some interesting way.
I have lots of review copies, mainly anti-apartheid stuff. I think the books I won as school prizes disintegrated years ago. I have a collection of short stories for children called "Animal Ghosts" which was given to me by the author of one of the stories, a former girlfriend.
The book that’s been with you to the most places.
"The Pocket Book of Modern Verse" ed. Oscar Williams. It's the book I take when I can have only one book for any length of time like backpacking or canoeing trips.
The most recent addition to your shelves.
A recent delivery from the Folio Society MRD Foot's "SOE" and Thaddeus Holt's "The Deceivers".
Your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next.
Just finished Christopher Tyerman's "God's War; a New History of the Crusades". (highly recommended if you like that sort of thing) and John Buchan's "Mr. Standfast" (also worth reading. Probably the best of the Hannay stories). Currently reading John Buchan's "Three Hostages" and Cain and Hopkins'"British Imperialism 1688-2000". I'm also dipping into John Aubrey's "Brief Lives". Next up are the two books referenced in the last question.
(adding) The book that has the most personal meaning for you
It would be my copy of Gide's "Thesée" with the woodcuts by Abram Krol. The late Walter Strachan showed me his copy when I was 15 or 16 and I fell in love. I never really thought that I would own a copy but then I found one for sale in the Netherlands for a non ridiculous price just a few years ago and snapped it up.
