Coming Clean

I’m a little late to this game, but Matt has tagged me for a book meme. You’d think I’d have all these geeky books I’ve read for my Master’s degree… …but you’d be wrong. I own a bunch, but never read any… at least, cover to cover.

Total Number of Books I Own: I don’t count. I’ve got two large bookshelves and three small bookshelves full of books. I’d say the large bookshelves probably house somewhere around 200 books. The small ones house less than 100. So my mad math skills (that I have because I’m a computer genius) says that’s somewhere around 700 books. …but most of them are my wife’s – she is the English major.

Last Book I Bought: Swimming with Scapulars: True Confessions of a Young Catholic by Matthew Lickona. My review of it can be found here

Before that, we had bought 1-2-3 Magic by Dr. Phelan and The Discipline Book by Dr. Sears. Would you guess we have a 2 and a half year-old?

Books I’m Reading Now:

• Theology of the Body for Beginners by Christopher West;
• Catholic for a Reason: Scripture and the Mystery of the Family of God edited by Scott Hahn and Leon J. Suprenant;
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis;
• …and I’ll be reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling as soon as it’s out.
  

Books that Have Been Important To Me:

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (my first childhood epic);
• Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia and just about everything else I’ve read by C.S. Lewis
• the Bible (I particularly like the NRSV – with the Deuterocanonicals of course);
• The Epistle of Ignatius [of Antioch] to the Smyrnaeans (Caused me to seriously consider Catholicism);
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church;
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (probably the best thing I read in college)

Right… so now I have to tag someone(s). I’m gonna tag Jason and Kat and Geof.