finally got tagged

1. One book that changed your life. does a law book count? they’re really changing my life right now…
2. One book you have read more than once. does a law book count? (if this is a pattern the rest of the way, i fear for my life…)
3. One book you would want on a desert island. probably war and peace
4. One book that made you laugh. three: the gunseller by hugh laurie, making history by stephen fry, the road to mars by eric idle (hmm, they’re all british...)
5. One book that made you cry. painting history: revisions in philippine colonial art by my thesis adviser patrick flores, just because it is sooo hard to read. i know someone who went to and stayed in baguio alone for one week just to read it from cover to cover. my thesis, whenever i get back to it, is not about painting, but i feel this book can help me sort things out better. i think i’ll go to baguio too.
6. One book you wish had been written. a brave, humorous, satirical take on any part of our history from the minor characters’ point of view. which is what daryll’s cousin is doing right now. can’t wait!
7. One book you wish had never been written. any tv/movie spinoff. the translation to print is always awful. oh, and the da vinci code. it read like an extended, unabridged treatment for a movie.
8. One book you are currently reading. seamus heaney’s take on beowulf, which, i recently discovered, we have two copies of. i got the second copy in fully booked; i think we bought the first copy in booksale.
9. One book you have been meaning to read. the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky. this was a requirement back in comm i (circa 1994), which i cheated on. watched the movie instead. bad.