(taken from here)

1.) Go to your bookshelves…
2.) Close your eyes. If you’re feeling really committed, blindfold yourself.
3.) Select ten books at random. Use more than one bookcase, if you have them, or piles by the bed, or… basically, wherever you keep books.
4.) Use these books to tell us about yourself – where and when you got them, who got them for you, what the book says about you, etc. etc…..
5.) Have fun! Be imaginative. Doesn’t matter if you’ve read them or not – be creative. It might not seem easy to start off with, and the links might be a little tenuous, but I think this is a fun way to do this sort of meme.
6.) Feel free to cheat a bit, if you need to…

1. Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations (edited by Lisa M. Cuklanz and Sujata Moorti)

I did some research for uni when I stumbled upon this book. I thought it sounded incredibly interesting that’s why I decided to order it. Also, I always try to make myself read non-fiction. There’s so much non-fiction that’s interesting and I would like to read and yet I always get stuck on the awesome fiction stuff. Needless to say it’s still unread.

2. Slow Man (J. M. Coetzee)

Got this one from my grandmother who actually managed to give me a book I’d like to read. But – as with most of the books in my bookcase – I didn’t yet. I did read Coetzee’s Boyhood though and it was a beautiful, touching book. I was in Africa at the time so that was especially cool.

3. The Africa Lexicon (Jacob E. Mabe)

I swear that this was a coincidence that I pulled this out of my bookshelf next. One of the books I bought during the year I studied Social and Cultural Anthropology. Unread.

4. The Dark One (Ronda Thompson)

Oh goodness. That book sounded so absolutely craptastic I had to have it. It would have been a normal Harlequin with the usual crappy Harlequin cover if it wasn’t for the fact that the main characters name was Armond Wulf, Marquess of Wulfglen and is – hold on tight – a WEREWOLF. I’m not sure that I actually want to read it. But it gives me immense satisfaction to own it.

5. Love in a Blue Time (Hanif Kureishi)

I actually don’t remember when or where I bought this book. I just had Kureishi on my to-read list for ages. And yet, I never got to it. I’m kinda pathetic.

6. Celtic Myths and Legends (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Bought this book on my trip to Glasgow. I spent 10 wonderful days there, vacationing on my own, seeing museums until my head seemed to explode and buying an aweful lot of books about Celtic mythology and Scottish literature.

7. Fables (Bill Willingham)

Ah! Something I’ve actually read! Awesome.
Fables is a combination of two things I really love: fairy tale retellings and comics. Though it does have some issues, it totally rocks.

8. The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)

Another book I’ve read. I’m a big fan of Thomas Mann. He writes wonderful prose and has an amazing ability to sketch characters with a few words only. I read The Magic Mountain when I was at the European Peace University for a certificate programme (Peace Studies and Conflict Management). It was really cool to study there. Interesting courses and more importantly, incredibly interesting people.

9. Only the Wind Knows the Answer (Johannes Mario Simmel)

Simmel was an Austrian author who wrote mostly crime and spy novels. Usually, not my kind of books but I like Simmel. His writing is interesting and it’s awesomely stuck in the cold war. I think it’s especially cool to have at least most of his stuff set in Vienna since, politically, stuff was going down here because of Vienna’s position in Europe (between east and west).

10. Book One (Chipp Kidd)

Got this one last year for my birthday from my sister. It’s a collection of Chipp Kidd’s work, mostly his book covers which I really love. I don’t know what it says about me apart from the fact that I luuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrve everything connected to books.