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Book Meme para Russ

As every Christian blogger around has used “The Bible” as the answer to most of these questions — rightly of course — but to make it all the more interesting, I’m excluding that answer for the time being.

1. One book that changed your life: Theologically it would have to be Michael Horton’s Putting Amazing Back into Grace; sadly I can’t seem to remember the first book that awakened the literary geek in me, but confirmations of my fascination with stories came with Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady.

2. One book that you’ve read more than once: I’m currently re-reading with Bryce the Narnia books; the next book I plan to re-read is Alistair Macleod’s No Great Mischief.

3. One book you’d want on a desert island: Something like Surviving on a Desert Island for Dummies, or didn’t Restoration Hardware have some such book at one point?

4. One book that made you laugh: Anything by Bill Bryson.

5. One book that made you cry: Most Chaim Potok books, but especially The Chosen. Oh and Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (which if you haven’t read, you simply must!).

6. One book that you wish had been written: Literary aesthetics and why it matters in your daily life

7. One book that you wish had never been written: The Prayer of Jabez

8. One book you’re currently reading: Alex Zwerdling, Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read: Yikes, there’s too many of those. I haven’t made my way entirely through that great tome of the 19th century, Moby Dick; also I’d like to finish War and Peace.

10. Now tag five people:
David and Neyir Urminksy
Bryce
Mr. T (in the comments section of course)
Any of the Uni girls back at Edinburgh

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3 Responses to “Book Meme para Russ”

  1. Mr T Says:
    August 29th, 2006 at 11:54 am

    In the jungles of Vietnam or the LA underground, Mr T did not become as adept with the new net-lingo as others, and wonders what it means to be “tagged”, and if being “tagged” means he needs to get himself to the charity shop to buy a trike to turn into a tank for his own personal defences.

    Mr T
    Recognizing that not knowing what tagging is is in no ways foolish, it just showed that he has not completed his task cataloging all human knowledge.

  2. Ashley Says:
    August 29th, 2006 at 8:56 pm

    It simply means, Mr T, that you get to answer the questions.

  3. The Urminskys » books Says:
    September 2nd, 2006 at 4:07 pm

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