Sarah tagged me awhile back for a book meme. I started writing this in August and then forgot about it. Sorry, Sarah:
1. One book that changed your life: Five Aspects of Woman
2. One book that you’ve read more than once: Anne of Green Gables. Many, many times.
3. One book you’d want on a desert island: Collection of Flannery O'Connor's short stories
4. One book that made you laugh:Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
5. One book that made you cry: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Marcia Marquez
6. One book that you wish had been written: The Place of Justice and Fairness in a Christian Worldview
7. One book that you wish had never been written: I thought long and hard about this, and I don't know. I would have trouble thinking a book was boring or offensive enough to wish it had never been written. Movies and music, sure, but books are the bodies of ideas that would probably be out there floating around anyway. The ideas or the presentation of them might be bad, but to say the book shouldn't have been written seems kind of silly.
8. One book you’re currently reading: War & Peace (I don't know if that counts--I've been reading it off and on for at least a year now, and that's after I started it for the second time. I have to say that Anna Karenina is much, much, much better.) Also, How to Argue and Win Every Time and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Ulysses
10. Now tag five people:
Dad
Tirzah
Becky
And whoever else wants to do it. I don't think there are many other people out there who read my blog. :)
Interesting contrast between wishing for The Place of Justice and Fairness in a Christian Worldview and currently reading How to Argue and Win Every Time :)
Actually, a fair number of books have been written on the topic of justice and fairness in a Christian worldview. The problem is that they inevitably get bogged down in politics and government. It's a chief front in the battle between the two kingdoms: our obligation in obedience as members of the body of Christ v. that of society at large. Tough question - maybe you should write the next book!
Posted by: Mom at November 1, 2006 4:16 AMI promise I'll get around to answering that sometime soon - I'll tell my mom you said hi! :-)
Posted by: Tirzah at November 6, 2006 6:08 AM