Thursday, July 27, 2006

One Book (Only one?)

Having been tagged by Meredith, here they are ...

1. One book that changed your life:

Getting Back Into Place, Edward S. Casey

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkein

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, Bill Mollison

4. One book that made you laugh:
The Bible According to Spike Milligan.

5. One book that made you cry:
I Have Not Seen a Butterfly Around Here: Children's Drawings and Poems From Terezin.
(Terezin was used as a ghetto by the Nazis during World War Two to hold Jews on the way to Auschwitz.)

The Garden

A little garden
Fragrant and full of roses.
The path is narrow
And a little boy walks along it.

A little boy, a sweet boy,
Like that growing blossom.
When the blossom comes to bloom,
The little boy will be no more.

Franta Bass, 4.9.1930 - 28.10.1944

6. One book that you wish had been written:
The Lessons of Peace, Yitzhak Rabin

7. One book that you wish had never been written:
nah.

8. One book you’re currently reading:
White Noise, Don Delillo

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present, Marvin Carlson

10. Now tag five people:
I don't know five (blogging) others! How about Emma & Jon for starters ...

1 comment:

Meredith said...

wow - cool list Andrew. the poem you posted from the kids book really moved me. and its good to see your thesis hasn't cured you of wanting to read serious books about your area!