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occultatioA surveythingy I just made up, because I think the questions are interesting.
1. What's the fattest book on your bookshelf?
The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
2. What's the shortest (in height) book?
Is It Not Nifty? by Pete Abrams (Sluggy book 1)
3. What book is in the worst, most well-worn/falling apart condition, and how much of it is your fault?
A whole lot of my books come from used book stores or relatives' libraries, so there are a lot of contenders. It's probably a tie, though, between my Dad's old copy of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and a copy of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger that originally belonged to my grandma.
4. What book that you personally bought has been opened the least?
There was a period when I was really, really into math and science books. During that time I bought some book about chaos mathematics called Does God Play Dice?, and a collection of Feynman's lectures called Six Not-So-Easy Pieces. Turned out the title of the latter was quite accurate. I never made it more than five pages into either one.
5. Any neat bookends?
For my bar mitzvah, I was given a gorgeous split blue geode, which you now can't see at all because there are so many books that the bookends have been shoved all the way into the corners.
6. What's the most interesting/random item on your bookshelf that isn't a book?
Holy crap is my bookshelf filled with non-book items. Mainly stacked in front of the books, so that you can't even get to them without moving stuff around. Probably the oddest one is the pair of my glasses. From second grade.
7. What goes on top of your bookshelf?
I'm at home now, so, my old trophies. I cleared out most of the swim team participation ones, but there's still a bunch up there. There's also a teddy bear bank with nickels in it, and a wooden pendulum I built in fifth grade. I seem to remember winning some kind of timing accuracy contest with it for... what the hell was it... oh yeah, FSEA (Future Scientists and Engineers of America).
8. Instead of tagging individual people to follow up, tag a book. Anybody with that book on their shelves is invited to fill this survey out. And anyone else who wants to, of course.
Knowing my audience here, I'm going to tag Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card. Have fun
1. What's the fattest book on your bookshelf?
The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
2. What's the shortest (in height) book?
Is It Not Nifty? by Pete Abrams (Sluggy book 1)
3. What book is in the worst, most well-worn/falling apart condition, and how much of it is your fault?
A whole lot of my books come from used book stores or relatives' libraries, so there are a lot of contenders. It's probably a tie, though, between my Dad's old copy of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and a copy of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger that originally belonged to my grandma.
4. What book that you personally bought has been opened the least?
There was a period when I was really, really into math and science books. During that time I bought some book about chaos mathematics called Does God Play Dice?, and a collection of Feynman's lectures called Six Not-So-Easy Pieces. Turned out the title of the latter was quite accurate. I never made it more than five pages into either one.
5. Any neat bookends?
For my bar mitzvah, I was given a gorgeous split blue geode, which you now can't see at all because there are so many books that the bookends have been shoved all the way into the corners.
6. What's the most interesting/random item on your bookshelf that isn't a book?
Holy crap is my bookshelf filled with non-book items. Mainly stacked in front of the books, so that you can't even get to them without moving stuff around. Probably the oddest one is the pair of my glasses. From second grade.
7. What goes on top of your bookshelf?
I'm at home now, so, my old trophies. I cleared out most of the swim team participation ones, but there's still a bunch up there. There's also a teddy bear bank with nickels in it, and a wooden pendulum I built in fifth grade. I seem to remember winning some kind of timing accuracy contest with it for... what the hell was it... oh yeah, FSEA (Future Scientists and Engineers of America).
8. Instead of tagging individual people to follow up, tag a book. Anybody with that book on their shelves is invited to fill this survey out. And anyone else who wants to, of course.
Knowing my audience here, I'm going to tag Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card. Have fun
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Date: 2005-06-25 03:44 am (UTC)1) Probably The Norton Shakespeare.
2) Looks like The Epiplectic Bicycle, by Edward Gorey.
3) The New College Latin & English Dictionary. For at least a couple years of high school, I just left it in my backpack all the time, and it got pretty beat up down there.
4) I think it's Diary of an Ugly Stepsister. I bought it in a nifty (used?) book store in Columbus, Ohio about three years ago, but I've never worked up the energy necessary to actually read it.
5) Nope. All I've got is three of the four little black three-sized objects that were stuck in the corners of a box that something I bought came in, to prevent the box from collapsing, or something.
6) Well, I've got a whole dedicated trinket/tshatshke shelf. I'm not sure what the most interesting item on it is (and it's in Philly, so I can't just stare at it till I decide), but it might be a card that has, on one side, a recipe for arugula salad, and, on the other, the name of a guy who hitchhiked in my car from, like, Inman Square to the Whole Foods in Cambridgeport a couple years ago, and the title of a math paper he recommended to me.
7) Nothing at the moment - it's cleared off for the subletter. Usually my Chanukah menorah and sometimes my Mickey Mouse top hat.
8) I don't have Speaker for the Dead. I hope you don't mind. But I'll tag The Westing Game.
—not in Philadelphia