I meme, you meme, we all meme for...uh...ice meme?

I don't often meme (laziness, I don't know) but I saw this one on spiceblog, which always makes me wish my laptop included a teleportation device that would land me in Anthony's kitchen...

1) Total number of books I've owned:

I hope no one actually expects a number for this one, because I really don't catalog my volumes or anything. My mom says I started reading when I was 3 or 4, and the books have been swarming onto my shelves ever since...

2) The last book I bought:

Hmm...I actually went on a book-buying spree a little while ago and picked up a whole bunch of books that I haven't read yet:

• two by Terry Kay (a local Georgian) - The Year the Lights Came On and To Dance with the White Dog
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

(Maybe I'll be able to use my summer free time to catch up!)

3) The last book I read:

Actually finished - J. Eric Smith's Eponymous, which was awesome

Still in progress weeks after I started reading it - Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

4) 5 books that mean a lot to me:

1. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein - My aunt gave me this book for my 5th birthday, and it still makes me cry.
2. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald - I had to read The Blue Flower for a comparative literature class in college, and it ended up being one of my favorite books ever. (Moulin Rouge put me in a tizzy over tuberculosis that year, and the consumption factored heavily on this book's plot...go figure....)
3. C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia - I'm including all seven of these as one book because I read them all in rapid succession and love them collectively--though I am fiercely opposed to the recent reordering of the volumes, even if it was sanctioned by Mr. Lewis himself.
4. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - This book is as convolutedly postmodern as you'd expect from Thomas Pynchon, but it's also short, fast-paced, and coherent enough to keep you hooked until the end. One more that I never would have discovered if not for my literary college career.
5. Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman - Kick. Ass. Please read this book. Then you'll understand why I have such an appreciation for the drug-infested, misogynistic world of cock rock
   

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

I don't like putting people on the spot, so I'll just take volunteers! :)