Ode to Turtle

So I decided to be proactive this weekend and do my homework for stats. Quickly realized I would need some help, as averaging 50 item sets is by hand is not worth it. Time to find Turtle. Turtle is my 11 year old TI-82 calculator. I loves my Turtie. He has no screen glass, and is decorated all over with faded gold and silver markings, but he works good. And he knows his math.

I'll Actually Sort of Respond to a Meme

I'm bored and it applies to me... Thanks Doom Mistress...

1. How many books do I own?

A few. About 250 gallons of paperbacks (I know because I just moved, and I pack my paperbacks in 10 gallon rubbermaid tubs and there were about 25 of them), about 200 hardcovers and 2 shelves of nonfiction. I now have a room for a library, which I share with my housemates (they have stuff on one wall). I have a problem. I am considering weeding the collection, but I am not that strong. I did weed the nonfiction somewhat during this last move.

2. Last Book I Bought:

Raven's Strike and When Demons Walk by Patricia Briggs. She's currently on my top 25 author list, and annoyingly has few books out. At least she writes a decent pace, so this should be remedied. Unlike some other great authors (Joan Vinge, C.S. Friedman).

3. Last Book I Read:

Kris Longknife: Deserter by Mike Shepard. I have no taste. I admit it. This was a fun, silly war sci-fi romp. If you like some of the early Elizabeth Moon's Family Space novels. And I so wish I could have gotten away with some of this crap as an Ensign and JG. But I'm not a princess and fictional.

4. Five Books That Mean A Lot To Me:

Ditto to the DoomMeister.. Wow what a question.

Pern, the entire series. I haven't read a Pern book in years (or even any Anne McCaffery books), but I reread them every six months for years in elementary and middle schools. I wanted to go there so bad and have fire lizards. Or just have fire lizards. Now I have cats. Who don't fly, teleport or breathe fire, but I love them anyways.

The Shattered Chain by Marion Zimmer Bradley. One of the first adult science fiction books I read. Quite adult really. No wonder I'm a feminist.

Silent Tower/Silicon Mage by Barbara Hambly. Classic technology saves magic world book. Thankfully Tom is not as mad as Antryg, but sometimes...

Intergral Trees by Larry Niven. Which I read long before I knew what an intregral is. Or what a silly pun that is. Another book I read early in my reading life.

In Conquest Born by C. S. Friedman. I still remember being hunched down in the back of the Fiesta, curled around boxes, reading it. Which is amazing because I get carsick when I try to read while riding in cars. But it was to good. I might have to reread it again.

I have been known to read books other than science fiction or fantasy. Once in a while. I even have Hambly's latest mystery in the queue.