Tagged!

ok..so i have been tagged by Ahona...since i have nothing to post, i might as well....so here goes:

total number of books owned
i have no clue whatsoever...it maybe 500 and it maybe 1000...probably in between

last books i bought
Madame Bovary (Norton second edition)
Kag Noy by Lila Majumdar
a collection of short stories by Borges
a collection of poems by Neruda


last books i read
Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Murder in Mesopotamia
Mrs Mcginty is Dead, etc
One Hundred Years of Solitude (second time)
Outsider
Madame Bovary (second time)
{the last three were part of a course}


books i am currently reading
Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass

five books that i have really enjoyed or that have influenced me
One hundred years of solitude
Shesher Kobita by Rabindranath Tagore
the watch novels by Terry Pratchett
Shadow Lines
Honyoman by Jaya Mitra
Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (her poems and journals and short stories too)
Mrs Dalloway
'Black Venus' and other short stories by Angela Carter
Sula by Toni Morrison
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy


books that i plan to buy next
Memories of my melancholy whores
some Llosa
Orlando
novels by Sontag


books that caught my attention but never read
Trainspotting
Orlando
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

books i own but never got around to reading
Light in August by William Faulkner (i tried thrice)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (soon)
My Name is Red by Pamuk (started once)

i tag bob and dibbo