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I stole this from

kyrene, and though she didn't tag me I still wanted to fill it out.

1) Total number of books owned?
It's in the hundreds, for certain. I probably have about 200 with me at the moment, and I've got quite a few at home, as well--probably at least 200 there, too. I've been collecting books since before I could even read, mind you, and then when I was old enough to start reading chapter books and series books I started collecting book series (I was a huge Nancy Drew fanatic growing up, for one thing...).

2) The last book I bought?
A book for my Critical Thinking class.

3) The last book I read?
I was recently rereading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

4) Five books that mean a lot to me?
Susan Kay's Phantom
Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera
Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses
I'm blanking at the moment because my head is still in a fog...

5) Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their LJs:

Tag! You're it:

alleykitten

cdaae13

shadow_dream

surlenil

penmage

I searched my friends list for some of the known bibliophiles ;-) I'm sincerely curious as to how many books the five of you own...lol

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Nancy Drew!

*nods* I wanted to be her growing up. We actually did a detective unit in my fifth grade class, and my alias was Nancy Drew...lol

pft, nancy drew.

it was all about the american girls. until second grade, then it was all about the chronicles of narnia and ANYTHING and EVERYTHING by madeline l'engle.

I wasn't introduced to Madeline L'Engle until 5th grade, but I didn't actually get into her until eighth or ninth and then I devoured nearly all of her fiction books--children's, young adult's and adult. Some of my favourite Madeline L'Engle books are Camilla: a novel; Certain Women; A Small Rain; A Severed Wasp and The Other Side of the Sun (which is DISTURBING!). Of course I adore the Wrinkle books, but who reasonably doesn't?

Oh..and I read American Girls through third, I think. After that it was the Little House on the Prairie series. My grandmother bought me the first three American Girl dolls for Christmases and my birthday, and she started Rheanna on them this past Christmas :-)

I also ended up majorly into the Sweet Valley series (the Sweet Valley University series started when I was in seventh grade, and I owned all of that series as soon as I knew they were out up until around the mid-20s when they started getting really stupid). And of course I was really into the Babysitter's Club up through about seventh grade. My mom would read Bobbsey Twins books to me when I was in about first grade for bedtime stories, and I think that started my Nancy Drew obsession. I also liked the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys crossover books, though I didn't care much for the Hardy Boy books themselves. I didn't like a lot of the later Nancy Drew books either--come to find out because it was a different author...lol I remember being a part of those mail-in library programs every summer growing up. I hated that you could only get so many books at a time from them, because I could often go through three books in a day or two.

I was such a bookworm. Once I moved to Michigan (seventh and eighth grade) I started getting into authors like Jane Austin and George Orwell and various other classics and the archaeological/historical King Arthur stuff. A middle-school project after I moved to Michigan sparked a mini-Joan of Arc obsession, too. That's also about when I started getting into poetry like Emily DIckinson and I read Maya Angelou's stuff (my grandmother was into her) and her autobiography. I got really into faery tales in high school, too. Ninth grade or so is when I was determined to track down every Grimm/Anderson/etc. tale I could get my hands on. I was introduced to Ayn Rand in 11th grade *gurgles*

I think my favourite book memory is one summer we were visiting Michigan, though. I think it was the summer after third grade. I got about fifteen books out of the Saginaw library and my dad chastised me saying, "Lindsay! We're only here for less than two weeks! How are you ever going to read them all?" They were done by the end of that week...lol And it's not that I was a kid who stayed inside--I loved swimming in the pool in summer and playing with friends and having friends over and generally hanging out with friends...I was SUCH an active little girl and ALWAYS outside (my family also went camping a LOT), but I never stopped reading, either. I really credit it as the way I learned grammar (as most of my classes never taught things like basic grammar :-P) and why I was often way ahead of the kids in my class when it came to learning things like using quotation marks--especially for dialogue...lol

Surprisingly, I never read any of the "childhood classics" as a child--except for Charlotte's Web--and only because we read it in a class. I've only read the ones I have read recently, and I really need to get my hands on Peter Pan, Through the Looking Glass and the like soon.