I've been tagged by Dawn so I'm answering these questions!

1. Total Number of Books I've Owned:

I can't even fathom putting a number to this. One thing I've been doing since 2003 is keeping a journal of the books I read. Just title, author and date completed (don't want to get bogged down). From that, I've learned I read between 50-60 books a year. Now, this is while I have kids, a job, a marriage, hobbies and other stuff, so I'm sure that number would have been bigger when I had summers off, and smaller when I had young kids. But, if I use 55 as an average and figure I've been reading roughly 28 years, I come up with 1485 books.

2. Last Book I Bought:

For myself "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Doctor Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World" by Tracy Kidder for book club.

For my son on his Patron Saint Day Saturday (so the last book I actually bought) "Nicholas Wins the Prize: Young Nicholas Experiences the Sacrament of Confession" by Helen Iakovos-Dalalakis. Crated by Eleni Christos. Illustrated by Alexandra Gavrili

3. Last Book I Read:

Last night, I finished "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith. It would be fluff, wouldn't it (big grin!)

4. Five Books That Mean A Lot To Me:

"Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy" by Kh. Frederica Matthewes-Green

"Here Be Dragons" by Sharon Kay Penman.

"Animal Dreams" by Barbara Kingsolver

"The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality" by Kyriacos C. Markides

and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

5. People I Will Infect With This Meme

Mom, LeeAnne (they both can email me their answers!), Christina , Philippa, and Christy