1. Number of books I own: Together with Kaija, perhaps around four or five hundred, more than half of which are originally hers. Never been much of a collector.

2. Last book I bought: The MLA Style Manual

3. Last book I completed: Giles Foden, The Last King of Scotland

4. Ten books, essays, or stories that mean a lot to me (I’m resisting an almost intolerable urge to add 50 more plus commentary and to include my own work in progress):
- Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”
- Herge, The Adventures of Tintin (whole series)
- Don DeLillo, White Noise
- Nykysuomen sanakirja (The Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish, five volumes)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Henry D. Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government”
- Mauno Saari, Juoksemisen salaisuudet (The Secrets of Running)
- Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
- H. C. Andersen, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
- Art Spiegelman: Maus

5. Currently reading:
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
- Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
- several articles on baseball

6. Tag? Yes, I know this is supposed to be the point. Not having a blogroll, I am a bad blogger. I would actually like to send this back to blogosphere with book replaced by album and only question 4 remaining. Here’s one of my several possible answers for that one:
- Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
- Nirvana: Nevermind
- YUP: Homo sapiens
- Kent: Isola
- Metallica: Master of Puppets
- Rainbow: Rising
- CMX: Aura
- Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus: Rajaportti
- Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- Weezer: Pinkerton 13:11