Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Meme of Fives

Heather/errantdreams tagged me for a meme today. I'll answer some of the questions, but I'm also going to create a few of my own to keep the meme on topic for the blog.

What are five places where you have lived?
In order: Ossining, NY; Uelsen, Germany; Chicago, IL; Athens, Greece; Ann Arbor, Michigan

What are five jobs you have had?
Babysitter, Lifeguard, Shoe salesperson, Intern, Archivist

What are five things on your to-do list for today (not in any particular order)

- Work on a Digital Library Collection proposal
- Pick out some finding aids for Isadore to encode tomorrow
- Read Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
- Research Louis Kahn
- Work on the J.J. catalog

Five books I've most recently completed:
- The Bride Stripped Bare, Anonymous
- The Illustrated Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte/Dame Darcy
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
- The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards

Five (random) books on Mt. TBR:
(chosen by the LibraryThing widget in my sidebar)
- Garden of Eve by K.L. Going
- The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin
- Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
- Cry of the Dove by Fadia Faqir
- Death of a Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill

Five BookCrossing books I've had in my possession for over a year:
(I got these by sorting my bookshelf TBR by registration date, earliest first)
- Evening by Susan Minot
- Murder at the National Gallery by Margaret Truman
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
- Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory

3 comments:

  1. I like the extra questions you added. This makes me think it would be neat if each new person tagged switched out one old question for a new one of their own...

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  2. Hey, thanks for the great meme! I swiped it and posted on my site, too!

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  3. What are five places where you have lived?

    (Akersloot,Noordwijkerhout,Heemstede,Amsterdam,Norwich UK and now back in heemstede)


    What are five jobs you have had?
    ( Waitress, worked in a soap factory, a weed coffee shop, Droste,care)

    What are five things on your to-do list for today (not in any particular order)


    (Get groceries
    Visit the library or bookstore
    shower, find a book for the NF swap)

    Five books I've most recently completed

    (The Chocolate Lover's Club
    The Chocolate Lover's Diet
    The Ship of Brides
    Seeing me Naked
    Nearlyweds)

    Five (random) books on Mt. TBR

    * The Memoirs of Cleopatra
    * The Winter Rose
    * Out of Control
    * Remember Me
    * Why Moms Are Weird
    (I have 5 TBR pages on Bookcrossing and I chose the last on on each page)

    Five BookCrossing books I've had in my possession for over a year

    * Love in a Cold Climate and other Novels (Jan. 2006)
    * Black Dahlia (July 2006)
    * In a Father's Rage (April 2005)
    * The Journals of Eleanor Druse
    * Lady and the Unicorn (2007)

    Name 5 Books you really want

    * The Indiana Torture Slaying
    * God's Brothel
    * Terrify No More
    * In a Far Country
    * The Daughters of Juarez

    (I think I am going to start a topic on Bookobsessed with this thingy. I like it) ;)

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