I’ve been tagged by Gina! *grins*
Total number of books I own: Umm. *thinks* At this point, somewhere around 100 – 150? Maybe 200? I haven’t actually gone in and counted recently. I didn’t do much reading or book-buying when I was in Texas … didn’t have the peace of mind to do so. So the majority of what I have is from when I was back in Washington… although my male seems bound and determined to correct this. 
Last Book I Bought: Morgan and I very recently went on a book-buying spree; a used bookstore in Providence, RI, was having a 40% off sale. And then upon unpacking the books I’d brought from WA to do an inventory, I realised that I was missing a good number of books by Marion Zimmer Bradley … as I scoured that bookshelf and the living room when I left TX, I’m guessing they probably fell into the box of my ex’s books that one of my housemates took down and sold at the used bookstore for me. >_Last Book I Read: I just finished reading Hidden Truth by Dawn Cook, second in a series. It’s a very good series, and as I don’t normally like “light” fantasy ….
Five Books That Mean A Lot To Me: Mrr. *thinks* This is a tough question to answer because most of what I could list are serials! 
The Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop
These books have always affected me very profoundly… I read them first when I was fourteen, just before the last one came out. They’re not light reading by any stretch of the imagination. An ongoing theme is the contrast between dark and light … and what’s really the darkness? I continue to find things every time I reread this trilogy that I missed priorly, which is unusual, to say the least.
The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
While much of his work, to be honest, is primarily aimed at horny teenage boys, I’ve always loved these books; they’ve made me look very closely at my own beliefs and question what I’d been told was right. And, hell, any series in which God is voted out and replaced with a woman–a prostitute, no less!–just rocks for ballsyness. *grins*
The Forbidden Tower by Marion Zimmer Bradley
I think this probably has to be one of the first books I read that introduced the concept of polyamory and group relationships in a positive fashion. (No, I never actually read Heinlein–yes, I know, I was a poor, depriaved child. ) Along with that, it deals very intimately with the magic system of the world, which further piqued my interest in magic. (I always was interested, even when I was conservative Christian and didn’t want to admit it.)
The Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce
These weren’t the first of her books I read, but they’re the ones I love the most. I’ve always had a weakness for the “girl must disguise herself as a male for x reason” plots, and this quartet is, quite honestly, the best; Tammy does not shy away from the important questions… like what a young girl does about menstruation and communal bathing while living as a page in a castle surrounded by men.
Writing the Breakout Novel (and companion workbook) by Donald Maass
And I really do have to put this here, because it’s affected my writing in very profound, deep ways. While I had barely competant fiction before reading this book … I think my fiction is very much the better for having read this and implemented his techniques.
Tagging: Anyone who wants to take this. 