Saturday Links: Collaboration, Books, Wilderness, Music, Photography, Politics & Gaia Theory

1. Total number of books I own: Impossible to say, since I keep giving them away in droves once I’ve summarized them down to a page of notes (does that mean I don’t ‘own’ them any more)? There are about 800 in my bookshelves now, and I’ve given away at least that number again.
2. The last books I bought: Clay Christensen’s Innovator’s Solution and Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee’s The Life and Death of Planet Earth.
3. The last books I read: Currently reading Freakonomics by Steven Leavitt et al, Conceptual Blockbusting by James Adams and The Midnight Disease by Alice Flaherty, all recommended by readers.
4. Five books that mean a lot to me: Can’t limit it to five so here are eighteen:
The Fourteen Books that Have Formed my Natural Philosophy, including #13 Straw Dogs by John Gray and #14 Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian (I’ve written about all of these in the blog if you’re looking for more information on them)
Natural Selection and The Law of Averages by Frederick Barthelme
Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban
Complete Works of TS Eliot
5. Others I tag to continue the meme: How about this: If you’re a reader and would like to blog about these questions, consider yourself tagged.