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Tagged by Pacian, who is my favorite ficton writer in Internetlandia.

Total Number of Books Owned

I have no idea. There are a few boxes of books that were left in storage that I still technically own. Yes, I should have donated the books instead of leaving them to become little apartment complexes for mold spores. I suck.

If we go with the number of books I have in the house, meaning the ones I loved enough to rescue from Mildew Hell, it is about 150.

I am still tormented by the fact that I lost my copy of Cakewalk: Adventures in Sugar.

Last Book Bought

I never buy books these days unless I plan on keeping them forever. The latest one is Saving the World by Julia Alvarez. I don’t even remember what it is about, but I must have thought it would be good for the “Hispanic Authors” section of my bookshelf, because, like I’m a Latina wannabe.

Last Book Read

I am currently reading Teach With Your Strengths, which is a book that makes me feel really, really good. Like so what if I am the most disorganized teacher I know? I’m a creative genius, and that shit can’t be learned by just anybody! It makes me smile as I am drifting off to sleep.

Past tense, though. Read. That’s a hard one. I inhale books. Unless one really strikes me, I don’t notice it anymore than I would notice a random television program. I read pretty quickly, so I haven’t invested much more time in it, either. That’s my excuse for not remembering what I’ve read. Unless it’s the Xanax.

I think it was Twisted, a teen-angst novel that was actually rather good.

Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me

1. The free review copy that I got in the mail today for Bloggrrl. It made me really happy because it’s concrete proof that someone is taking my efforts seriously.

2. The Song of Solomon. Because it is so very beautiful and contradicts by its very existence the rigidity of biblical interpretation.

3. The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook. I can’t tell you how many times this book has kept me from going to the ER with anxiety symptoms. Its value at this point is probably somewhere around 10K.

4. Lonely Planet Mexico. I have read this book and its updates for 15 years. I lived by it when I was in Mexico. I take it to school to share with students. I often sleep with it at night. Ask me a question about any city in Mexico. Just ask.

5. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987, Bilingual Edition. Yeah, I know, I’m on a Spanish kick tonight. I love these poems though. They are in Spanish on one side, and English on the other. It’s a great way to teach yourself how to speak like a philosophical romantic in another tongue, if you don’t know how already.

Tagged: Margaret, Deborah, Ken, Ms. Teacher, Mary and Tonya. Because I think yall like to read stuff.

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