A sucker for a simple meme, the book covers caught my eye, the simplicity motivated me enough to join in. I very much enjoyed seeing the books that other people chose, as much for the variety of covers and styles as for any literary value or insight into the person selecting it
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don’t forget the alt text).
How did I pick a book that “had an impact on who I am”? – I didn’t really, my cop-out answer was that any book you read has an impact on you, large or small, even if its just a book you abandon soon after opening the cover. Some days I looked around the room and picked up the first one that came to hand, at other times I had an idea a few hours or days in advance. I’d wanted to conclude with my leather notebook journal, but because we were away on that weekend my journal was the only book I had with me so it came out at number nineteen
- :: 1/20 – – My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
- :: 2/20 – – Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- :: 3/20 – – The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian W. Kernighah, Rob Pike
- :: 4/20 – – Photographic Field Guide Birds of Australia, Jim Flegg
- :: 5/20 – – Fish Food
- :: 6/20 – – Colorvision, Ron Cobb
- :: 7/20 – – The Cuckoo’s Egg, Clifford Stoll
- :: 8/20 – – Antoni Gaudi, Rainer Zebst
- :: 9/20 – – Snowcrash, Neal Stephenson
- :: 10/20 – – Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia
- :: 11/20 – – The Wombles at Work, Elisabeth Beresford
- :: 12/20 – – AZ Handy Road Atlas Great Britain
- :: 13/20 – – Two Little Savages, Ernest Thompson Seton
- :: 14/20 – – The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
- :: 15/20 – – Total Recall, Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
- :: 16/20 – – Origami – The Art of Paper-Folding, Robert Harbin
- :: 17/20 – – Dune, Frank Herbert
- :: 18/20 – – The Whale People, Roderick Haig-Brown
- :: 19/20 – – my journal
- :: 20/20 – – Pigeon Post, Arthur Ransome
