A mimetic book post:
- How many books do you own?
- What is the last book you bought?
- What is the last book you read?
- What are 5 books that mean a lot to you?
How many books do you own?
Hard to say. A glance at the spreadsheet tells me that I've read 527 books in the past 9 years; various of those were borrowed from friends or libraries. We also have what I'd guess to be several hundred physical books at home, mostly stacked in piles because there are no shelves for them, yet.
So, including digital formats (why wouldn't I?), I'd say 'less than a thousand', but probably not far off the upper end of that.
What is the last book you bought?
I think it was pre-ordering Richard's The Tyranny of Faith (cough), but I'm not entirely sure I count pre-ordering something within the spirit of the question.
Otherwise, I bought these two at the same time: Vicious Circle by Mike Carey, the second of the Felix Castor novels. Really enjoying this and will probably power through the rest of the series afterwards. (Though I'm not sure my current reading velocity in general could 'power through' so much as a paper bag.)
and
The Box by Marc Levinson, a history of containerised shipping.
I'm reading both of these at the moment, and greatly enjoying them both. But I am in a real concentration rut in my downtime, not able to focus gainfully on much that is not deeply familiar to me or where the activity requires me to ante energy into the pot (even if I would get more out than I put in).
I'll answer the other two next week; I'm out of time for today.