Today, apparently, is World Book Day, and in commemoration of that, there’s a meme that’s making its way ’round the blogosphere.
The book I am reading: Currently in the bag I carry to and from work, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This was recommended to me by a friend at Farpoint.
The book I am writing: It’s about some high schoolers and their adventures. I’m not working on it very quickly, but someday I’ll be done with it.
The book I love most: The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The last book I received as a gift: I don’t usually get books as gifts, because I usually buy for myself what I want to read. The last book I can remember receiving as a gift is LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, given to me Christmas 2009 by my sister and brother-in-law.
The last book I gave as a gift: I know who it went to, but I don’t remember what it was. What was in that package I sent out for Christmas? Oh! Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner.
The nearest book on my desk: On the desk, Ambrose Bierce’s Write It Write. (I keep several writing stylebooks at the office, including the AP Stylebook and Fowler’s. Bierce, actually, happens to be sitting on top of the “style pile.) Above the desk (in other words, on top of my cubicle), the aforementioned LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary. Below the desk (in other words, atop my computer tower), The I Ching: Plain and Simple by Stephen Karcher. (This is actually the book closest at hand, much closer than the Bierce.)
Thus endeth the meme-age!
Spend World Book Day today with a book. Hug a book!