I’ve been tagged with the book meme:
1. How many books do I own? About 1,250. (I got rid of two-thirds of my books when I moved to this apartment two and a half years ago.)
2. What’s the last book I bought? Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat, by Edward McPherson.
3. What’s the last book I read? Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography, by Piers Paul Read.
4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
– Boswell’s Life of Johnson
– The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
– Enemies, a Love Story, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
– The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
– Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935-1975, by Fairfield Porter
Get with the program, Girl. You’re a meme behind.