books meme

adam of ah ok lah had tagged me with this meme on 10 june. was busy to respond until today. ah, ok lah, here it is:

1) total number of books i own:
er… all kind of books? non fiction and fiction? very difficult to tell. well, already i have 68 of agatha christie books (yeah i’m a great fan of her!). as for the rest here and there, perhaps i have near 200.

2) the last book i bought:
can’t remember. it was a long time ago i bought a book. it could be one of those short horror stories books.

3) the last book i read:
again couldn’t remember as long long time i have not read a book. no time lah. prefer to blog and surf the net lah. 🙂 ok i’ll agak agak. it could be the book in the Q above, if it was the last book i bought. otoh, it could be john grey’s mean are from mars, women are from venus or a book of short inspirational stories. say, now i remember. the last book i read was a book on the late pope john paul II! that book, published by life magazine, was actually produced long time before pope john paul II’s death. it was there all along in our office library but i was not interested in it, but then after the pope’s death, i suddenly got interested in it! it is a book telling the life of the pope with lots of big colourful pictures.

4) 5 books that mean alot to me:
– my country, my people by lin yutang (on how lin see china)
– shame, secrecy and silence, a study of rape in penang, published by the women’s crisis society.
– forgot the tittle but it is by viktor rankl, a true life account of his time in the nazi camp. very touching and humane story.
– the biography of agatha christie, forgot the author’s name. well it has to be, since she was my favouritefiction writer.
– finally, the best of the best – how to win friends and influence people by dale carnegie.

5) tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their blogs:
er… i think i better not tag anyone as i don’t want to impose but any of you bloggers who have not done this yet,are free to pick it up from me, if you like. oh and on second thought, maybe instead of tagging bloggers, i would like to tag 3 of my regular readers, i.e wits0, justme and ali allah ditta. ok guys, respond in comments box (no obligations of course).