I lifted the following from a friend's blog... Feel free to share with your friends. It's very interesting to read the answers that others give. The answers below are, obviously, mine. ------------ "Book Talk" Total Number of Books I've Owned: Unfathomable. Right now, I read an average of 150 books a year. Probably more. I'm almost 37 years old. I started reading when I was 4. It amazes me to think that millions of words have passed before my eyes. Last Book I Bought: JAMIE by Lori Foster Reinventing Mona (can't remember author) Beach Blanket Bad Boys (several authors) They are all romances. :) Last Book I Read: WHATEVER REILLY WANTS (a Silhouette Desire romance) Five Books That Mean A Lot To Me: 1. GOD ON A HARLEY by Joan Brady It's about a woman in her 30s going through a "mid-life" crisis and "GOD" comes to her in a form she can approach-- a man on a Harley-- and helps her simplify her life. The book came out long before the JOAN OF ARCADIA tv-show. And it's not a romance. :) 2. The Dictionary. I got my first real dictionary when I was in junior high and I would read some of it every day, with the goal of having read the entire book by graduation. I did it twice over. 3. JOURNEY TO QUIET WATERS by Dixie Browning. It was my "first" grown-up romance novel which I "snuck" when I was 13ish. I located a used copy on the internet last year to add to my keeper shelf for nostalgic reasons. 4. FOREVER by Judy Blume. Sex ed classes have nothing on this book. I read it when I was 14. It was written in the mid-70s when "free-love" was practiced. It was about a 17 yr old's journey from "innocence" to adulthood. I can still remember the line "Once you have sex, you can't go back to holding hands" that the girl used to describe how it felt to rush into sex too soon. 5. THE ELVES and THE SHOEMAKER. It was the first book I read on my own.