Blogger Book Tag (aka let my inferiority complex begin)

Pete tagged me to be next in the ongoing book binge game. This scares me as I really don't think I'm all that well read, but that's probably because I spend too much time with Andrew.
Here goes:

1) How many books do I own?
Like Mirtle many of my books are not currently with me. It's close to 200, and a combination of school books I happened to enjoy and the books I've read over the years. I will note that this number is after several book purges before/after a move. The number wouldn't been higher had I not gotten rid of the fifty babysitters club books and my trashy collection of V.C. Andrews novels.

2)Most recent purchases?
A $4.99 copy of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, and the reading list for great journalism (Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, Philip Gourevich, Joe Sacco etc), I've been reading a lot of borrowed books these days.

3)Currently Reading?
In my annual quest to read a "classic" novel I'm reading my $4.99 copy of War and Peace. I'm just starting this marathon of a book, but it's about the Napoleonic wars in Russisa it must be good.

4)Books that meant the most?
I have to start with the book that I've read more than any other, Judy Blume's Are you there God it's me Margaret. I must have read that book 50 times when I was in elementary school, I took it out the library every second or third week. It was the book that got me figuring out the whole adolescence thing from a girls point of view. I love Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees, it's so twisted and dark but it struck a cord with me for some reason. I'm proud to have read it before it became an Oprah book. Speaking of Oprah, I do have an Oprah book on my list, Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. It still blows my mind that this book was written by a man, but I read this when I was feeling all depressed in high school and so I related to the character and also felt better because her life was way worse than mine. I still read this book when I feel like I totally suck. Then there's the Beatles Anthology, the book that began the obsession. I read this book when I started to become very interested in the Beatles and this gave me definitive answers direct from the source. I've read many rock-bios and nothing compares to this one - well I guess The Dirt by Motley Crue is pretty definitive too. The last book on my list is the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, it's one of the few Atwood books where the overt feminist message isn't frustrating or over the top even though the message is so clear. I'm stopping there to cue the criticism.

5) Who's next?
I'm throwing it to Andrea and Shannon, because those are the only bloggers left on my list to be tagged.