K-dog book-tagged me, so here goes:
Total number of books I own: Who knows. Many, many. Walls of them in study, others in boxes. But of late I’ve been on a scan-go-paperless purging kick. I’ll look at a book and wonder if there is a more than 1% chance I’ll ever need to consult or cite it (often it’s out of date or there are online things that are better now), or re-read it (rarely), or want my kid to read it. That leaves me with classics and history and favorite novels. So who knows, who cares.The last book I bought: Vin Suprynowicz’s The Black Arrow.
The last book I read: Reading The Black Arrow now. I can’t say it’s high literature, and after reading the sex scenes, I have an inkling why Laissez-Faire Books decided not to carry it (not that I am taking sides!)–but in any even I am halfway through and it is keeping me interested enough to keep going.
Since I have a 2 year old, most books I’ve read lately–and I have about 15 I’m part-way through–are on Montessori education (e.g., Montessori from the Start : The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three), positive discipline, how to teach your kid to read, and some history by Robert Nisbet and also Digby Baltzell.
Five books that mean a lot to me: Egads, lists like this annoy me. For one, no book “means a lot to me,” really. They are just fricking books. But, okay:
1. C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. Beloved.
2. Stephen R. Donaldson’s Chonicles of Thomas Covenant. Beloved.
3. Super Baby Food, by Ruth Yaron. Don’t ask.
4. Rand’s various stuff.
5. Hoppe’s work, esp. A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism.
And of course, Hazlitt, Bastiat, Rothbard, Mises, and others, including The Free Market Reader, ed. by Rockwell and Rothbard.
Tag five people and have them do this on their blogs:
1. Tibor Machan
2. Jeff Tucker
3. Hans Hoppe
4. Walter Block
5. Tom Woods
