mememe

I might get around to sharing... as soon as there is something to share. While I wait to develop a life, here's a meme:

1. Estimate the total number of books you've owned in your life.
Well, my dad keeps threatening to send all my books to me and yet does not, because there are seriously thousands of them in boxes in Puerto Rico. Add in all the books I've bought in the past decade, and... yeah, lots of books. (The one thing I miss about high school, actually, is that all the money I made could and did go to books. *g*)

2. What's the last book you bought?
Manga counts, right? Fake vol. 5

3. What's the last book you read?
Stroke of Midnight Laurell K. Hamilton (Yes, I'm still trying to read this series. Not quite sure why, but I am.)

4. List 5 books that mean a lot to you, or at one point or other in your life were/are important to you (important does not = favorite or best or most brilliant): Witness as I cheat like a cheating thing... ha!
1. To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf (the first thing of beauty to ever make me weep)
2. The Wraeththu Series Storm Constantine (universe that got into my head and just never left)
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a trilogy in five parts!) Douglas Adams (Still and always the perfect blend of humor and despair. I just love these books to death.)
4. Imajica Clive Barker (I read this over-a-thousand-pages book in two days. During finals. At Harvard. I then
wandered about in a daze for weeks after. Can't quite explain why it hit me so hard, except to say that it is just. that. good.)
5. The Dead Series Richard Calder (I go on and on about it over here.)

Also, took the quiz to see which Wraeththu character I am:

My #1 result for the SelectSmart.com selector, Wraeththu selector, is Calanthe

As much as I adore my Swift; I'm not surprised. Reading Fulfilments the first time around felt very much like reading an AU RPS of my life.

date with Bats

I bought myself a ticket online last night whilst drunk, as to avoid the usual dance of will I/won't I that us depressive and antisocial types go through every. single. time. we have to leave the house.
In that sentence, we is me. No offense to anyone who is saner than I.

Good decision all around, since I woke up this morning and started dancing around the apartment, singing: "I have a date with Batman". (Which is, btw, a very catchy song.) The dancing petered out as the aftermath of too much champagne made itself known. But I pushed myself into the shower, into my new jeans (wicked low-ridey, boot-cut. Guess! calls them Daredevil. I call them Sex-ay.), and my kaiju big battel tee (It's got Supes' colors, 'cause I may cheat, but all my loves are truuue.) and finally, out the door.

The movie was amazing. (That is all I'm saying about that, because I'm sure to write the big spoilery post once I see it again. Possibly tomorrow. *g*)

I then decided to kill the left over champagne fumes with a nice Bloody Mary (made with Absolut Peppar, I walked in and out of bars around Boylston until I found one that had it.) Tres yum.

Then, it was time for a nice long ramble around Back Bay and much wishing for the money to move there. Sigh. So I consoled myself with some awesome Indian food. Vegetable Samosas, Chicken Vindaloo and Naan. Yummy. Although I do wish that the servers would stop cautioning me about the Vindaloo already. Lookit! I'm Puertorican. I was drowning cuajito in hot sauce when I was a toddler. I know it's hot, that's why I order it.

Mouth abuzz, I headed for the bookstore and am now in love. Someone on the flist recced these a while back, and I can't remember who, which is too bad as I owe them a big thank you. Teen series, sort of like Bridget Jones's Diary in high school (possible middle school, English forms confuse me.) and absolutely hysterical.

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson - official site

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison - Amazon page for the first book. You can read the first few pages there. And you should. I was giggling like a madwoman on the T ride home.

So glad I took the rec to heart and bought the first two books, since now I have date with the second book. Laters.