{"id":260,"date":"2005-05-18T12:07:45","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T20:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2005-05-18T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T21:07:53","slug":"five-things-about-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Five things about books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blog meme time (thanks to Talmida<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Total number of books I’ve owned.<\/h4>\n

No idea. How do you count? Do multi-volume sets count as 1 or the number of volumes? I have a lot of those. The total is certainly more than 1,000, probably less than 10,000<\/p>\n

Last book I bought.<\/h4>\n

A dead heat between Travels in Hyperreality<\/a> by Umberto Eco and The Bible and the Sword<\/a><\/cite> by Barbara Tuchman<\/cite>, from the very cool bookshop<\/a> in Shatz Street.<\/p>\n

Last book I read.<\/h4>\n

Started or finished? I am reading the Tuchman book in my commute and the Eco book in bed. The last one I finished reading was The Picturegoers<\/cite>, David Lodge’s first novel.<\/p>\n

Five books that mean a lot to me.<\/h4>\n

I will write down more or less the first five I think of. I am sure I will think of others and regret not being able to include them.<\/p>\n

An Equal Music<\/a><\/cite> by Vikram Seth.<\/p>\n

Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid<\/a><\/cite>. Yes, I know it’s geeky, but what do you expect?<\/p>\n

Borges’ short stories.<\/p>\n

Souls on Fire<\/a><\/cite> by Eli Wiesel. Money quote:<\/p>\n

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Two men separated by space and time can nevertheless take part in an exchange. One asks a question and the other, elsewhere and later, asks another, unaware that his question is an answer to the first.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Once and Future King<\/a><\/cite> by T. H. White, especially The Book of Merlin<\/cite><\/p>\n

Tag 5 people and have them do this on their blog<\/h4>\n

No.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blog meme time (thanks to Talmida). Total number of books I’ve owned. No idea. How do you count? Do multi-volume sets count as 1 or the number of volumes? I have a lot of those. The total is certainly more than 1,000, probably less than 10,000 Last book I bought. A dead heat between Travels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}