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Well, Ms. Jen tagged me the other day to do a book thing/meme.

The rules: List five books that you have read in 2007 that you love. These do not have to be books that came out in 2007, but books that you (re)discovered/(re)read in 2007 that have become or are important to you. Link back to the person who tagged you. Tag five others.

First, I struggled with even thinking of five books I read in 2007. Then I realized it was a piece of cake:

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
   
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
   

There! That was easy! I read the whole 7-book series in the space of a couple months this fall - I hadn't read any of them previously. Plus I could list two "bonus" books. :-)

Okay, okay, I know that was a total cop-out. Fine....I'll do this for real.... Here are 5 (plus a few more) I could think of. I'm not sure they all became important to me, but I did read them.

1. The whole 7-book Harry Potter series - I found these books very fascinating. The imagination it took to put that all together must be incredible. I also found it interesting how love was the common thread throughout the whole series even though the book was about witches.
2. Hollywood Tough - A Shane Scully novel by Stephen J. Cannell. Not his best Shane Scully novel, but it was still an enjoyable read.
3. The Devil's Workshop and King Con - both also by Stephen J. Cannell, but with different main characters. I learned some interesting stuff about being a hobo and riding trains and about being a con artist.
4. Plum Island and Spencerville - both by Nelson Demille. I'm not positive, but I think I read both of these in 2007. I don't really keep a list of all the books I've read. The years start to run together after awhile. I usually enjoy Nelson Demille's books. Plum Island was excellent I thought. Spencerville not as much. It was fascinating in a morbid kind of way.
5. The Holy Bible - I must admit I stole this idea from Jen, but I can honestly say that I re-read parts of it this year, enjoyed it, and it is important to me.
6. The First Horseman - by John Case, it's a fictional book about using cholera as a biological weapon. He also wrote The Genesis Code, which I found interesting too (but I didn't read it this year).
   

Yeah....I am definitely not much of a non-fiction person. I don't feel like tagging 5 others, but if you're a blogger and want to do this, go ahead and run with it.

This is totally off the topic, but this global warming stuff is fun. It's the middle of winter and we had 60 degrees (F) outside this afternoon with thunderstorms and a few potential tornadoes tonight. Is it too far east for a chinook to have made it here?

Coming in future posts: a summary of my Xmas/New Years vacation, an update on the car search, a new glasses picture, and maybe some boring stuff about my life. You wouldn't want to miss that, would you?