What do you mean by “closest”? Physically within arm’s reach or a book with which I have an intimate and loving relation?
On my desk is Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, The Collins Robert French Dictionary, my college yearbook and a book of the lyrics of the French singer, Georges Brassens.
There is a stack of four sitting on the coffee table, the choice of which to read I decided to delay and instead loaded up Fluther. In return I see this question which has me pondering them again!
From top to bottom:
Deadhouse Gates Steven Erikson The Dispossessed Ursula K LeGuin Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany Introduction to Black Hole Physics Valeri P. Frolov and Andrei Zelnikov
With that said, I believe I’ll sign off and continue with Dhalgren.
The closest book in proximity to me right now is Guide to Analysing Companies by Bob Vause. If what you mean is the book that I find quite endearing these days and also in my bookshelf, it’s Dracula by Bram “the Fear Stoker” Stoker. : )
The closest book to me is the one I am currently reading, “Idiot America” (*how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the free), by Charles P. Pierce. If you haven’t read it, you should. It is a tremendous chronicle of the downward spiral in the way too many Americans now think.
Well one is a manual. Berliz learning System.
The second Is a Book on Reflexology
The Berlitz was on top of the reflexology book. So the one on the bottoms was in closer vicinity but I had to pick up the one on top first?
Erm…right besides my computer desk there’s a book shelf, and all the books are pretty close…I guess the top right book will be considered the closest to me. Blaze by Stephen King Richard Bachman.
I was gonna say, ’‘either way, it was bound to be a horror book’’...but Blaze isn’t horror…at least not technically. But all the other ones after, or at least, the great majority…
I’m sitting next to my bookcase, which is currently holding about 300 books. I guess the “closest” one, if I hold my arm straight out and touch a book, is called Dogs and Goddesses. It’s a hilarious book by Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart and Lani Diane Rich.
@zensky Is it possible to post the entire book into some folder on Fluther for everyone’s use? Could it possibly be put into the Fluther Guidelines section???
A Guide to Quark Express. It’s about 6” from my feet which is where it lives. I haven’t looked at it for years, but I can’t destroy a book. It’s an inherited disability.
@Sunny2 I took a QE course about 20 years ago – basically learning to make business cards. It was a 20 hour course and I loved it. I’m no graphic designer, but I learned a lot about the various programs back then due to the QE course. I didn’t realize it’s still around…
Redrawing the Boundares: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies. Ugh. It’s a textbook. The second closest book is also a textbook. The nearest novel to me is Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson.
Mandela’s Way Fitteen Lessons on Life, Love and Courage by Richard Stengl
I am really enjoying it. The author is the managing editor of Time magazine and collaborated with Mandela on his 1993 autobiography.