Evidently, I have been tagged, but I don’t really know what this means because old Adam has not explained this to me. I assume that it means to answer these questions about your own personal library / book obsession. Here goes:
How many books do you own?:
Probably a little over a hundred that I actually like. There are a few in there that suck unendingly, though.
Last book I read:
I, too, have a difficult time finishing theology books, even if they’re short. I wish I could say the last book I read was ‘Act and Being’ by Colin Gunton, but it would be untrue. However, the summer is upon us. The last book I read entirely was ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’ by Michael Chabon. When it was published in 1989, it was Chabon’s thesis for his masters in creative writing and was submitted to Harper Collins by his editor without his knowledge, only to garner a publishing green-light and a $150,000 forward. That may seem extreme, but it really is that good. Certainly one of the finest ‘first-novels’ I’ve read in recent memory or in the past. Classic. [Chabon's latest, 'The Yiddish Policeman's Union' is currently collecting rave reviews and he won the Pulitzer for fiction with his third novel in 2001.]
Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me:
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction by JD Salinger
Between Cross and Resurrection by Alan Lewis
Fires by Raymond Carver (this is a recent addition and much better than I could have imagined)
The Politics of Jesus by John Yoder
[runner-up: The Kama Sutra]
i really need to read Raymond Carver.