Thursday, January 06, 2005

Reading material

Between Cloud and myself we have about 3,000 books at home and, in the absence of incoming DVDs this Christmas, it was mostly books that were added to our household through the annual exchange of gifts programme that the festive period usually brings.

Having said that, Cloud is currently dedicated to reading The Crash at Hennington, which I read over Christmas - despite all our books we still use public libraries!

Still, at some point Cloud will get around to reading Q by Luther Blisset; the Disinformation Lists (bless Russ Kick and the quirkiness of conspiracy theories and poor referencing); and the Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish --- actually, he's already started with this one and the movie quotes section is causing much fun!

As for me, I got The X-Files Guide to Season 7 - which alerted me to the fact I haven't seen as many from that season as I thought - and which makes me want the season 4 and season 6 guides even more. I also got myself the Slayer Trivia book, but haven't dared bring that out as an extra present yet so I guess that's still off limits to comment on...

2 comments:

Casyn said...

3000 books! I'd be in heaven. I have a meagre 300 and I've barely enough room for them right now. I'm trying to imagine having 10 times this many books... it's like the mounds of gold in movies, but books.

Lisa Rullsenberg said...

As any examination of Mr Cloud-in-trousers' interests will indicate, in addition to mine, part of the reason for the volume of books is that we have such eclectic interests!
Of course, you can always feel there are never enough (especially when writing an essay!) but we do have pretty well formed collections of texts on Buffy, philosophy, JFK conspiracies, film and TV and general media studies, literature (critism as well as fiction), graphic novels, gender studies, art history (including design, fine art, photography, architecture etc), computing, codes (science/calculus-type stuff), history (esp. European and political), psychoanalysis, biographies, poetry and plays, cyborgs, Jewish studies, American studies, family history... okay, so its pretty humanities and social science dominated, but that's probably broader than most collections.
And that's before we get onto the videos/DVDs...