Book meme
I got tagged by thedharmablues.
Total number of books owned:
Frankly, I've got no idea. A whole lot. I've never counted them, there's no catalogue either. I tried Library Thing, and I tried Shelfari, but those don't work for me. Most of my books aren't in English. Now Library Thing has a feature that let's you import books from Vox, but frankly, it sucks. I tried it, and I don't know whose books they imported but they sure as hell weren't mine. I might not have good taste, but I certainly have better taste than the person that seemed to love 'romantic' crap, and occult / vampire / science fiction litter.
So I can't give you a number. Best I can do is show you part of a bookshelf:
Last book bought:
I actually bought several books at once. The first one was 'Daughter of Agadir', by Ouarda Saillo.
I bought this book in Dutch. I'll translate the first paragraph:
My mother died September 19th, 1979, at 10 in the morning. My father killed her on the roof of our house in Agadir. He punded a knife in her belly, dragged her up the stairs, tied her to a ladder, stuffed her mouth with sand, poored fuel on her and set her on fire. My moter was 29 years old and 7 months pregnant when she died. I was 5.
Stout (naughty) is a book about 'flirting, success, power, lingerie and erotica'.
This book by Ann-Marie MacDonald is available in English, titled Fall On Your Knees.
A book to read on the tram, in English: To Speak For The Dead.
A book on Mind Mapping by Peter Weiler.
Last book read:
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg.
Five books that mean a lot to me:
Originally posted on irmavermaat.vox.com
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consider this … "Artistic creation is not born ex nihilo from the brains of individuals as a private language; it has always been a social practice. Ideas are not original, they are built upon layers of knowledge accumulated throughout history. Out of these common layers, artists create works that have their unmistakable specificities and innovations. All creative works reassemble ideas, words and images from history and their contemporary context."
"Only after the invention of the creative genius, practices of collaboration, appropriation and transmission were actively forgotten."
"Copyright pits author against author in a war of competition for originality – its effects are not only economic, it also naturalizes a certain process of knowledge production, delegitimates the notion of a common culture, and cripples social relations. Artists are not encouraged to share their thoughts, expressions and works or to contribute to a common pool of creativity. Instead, they jealously guard their “property” from others, who they view as potential competitors, spies and thieves lying in wait to snatch and defile their original ideas. This is a vision of the art world created in capitalism’s own image, whose ultimate aim is to make it possible for corporations to appropriate the alienated products of its intellectual workers."
"The private ownership of ideas over the last two centuries hasn't managed to completely eradicate the memory of a common culture or the recognition that knowledge flourishes when ideas, words, sounds and images are free for everyone to use."
The above from: Copyright, Copyleft & the Creative Anti-Commons
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