Holly Maguire’s clever little book is aimed at children, but adults will find Book Nerd plenty of fun, too. Maguire provides the artwork and quotes famous people to praise the wonderfulness of reading.
If you’re looking for a snazzy celebration of bookishness, Book Nerd shines! Are you a book nerd? GRADE: A
Book nerd? Nah. I am to book nerd as Big Orange is to a kid’s broken toy beach sand shovel.
Jerry, I beg to disagree. Anyone who has as many “Incoming” books as you do certainly qualifies as a Book Nerd. Welcome to the club!
Of course I’m a nerd!
As a teenager I couldn’t afford to buy books, not even “Taschenbücher” aka paperbacks or pulps so I got them from friends or the library.
This continued until I made good money – and did a lot of business travel. Every evening after work in the big cities (Munich, Frankfurt, Zürich, Vienna and later London and much later NYC) I would visit bookstores and big stores which sold remainders.
So over 40 years I accumulated 10 000 Books, mainly SF.
Now I’m thinking about their future when I pass away – maybe I should try to sell them?
Wolf, I’m facing the same problem with my book collection. I’m trying to find Good Homes for many of the books. Your collection has many books collectors would be happy to pay you for.
When I attended my high school reunion a few years ago, I met a friend again for the first time in 50 years. Had known her from first grade through senior year in high school. Her most vivid memory of me, she said, was the number of books I’d already amassed as a teen. I culled out hundreds of books when Donna and I moved from Virginia, and I still try not to overbuy, but it’s a losing fight.
Fred, I’m fighting that closing fight, too. Books attract me…
John and I are both avid readers & book nerds. Space considerations (and being tired of paying for a storage unit) finally required us to cull our collection some years back, but we still have books everywhere. With the advent of e-readers, we haven’t purchased as many physical books as we used to, but my “cyber-shelves” are jammed. When I die, if our local Friends of the Library is still functioning (hell, if we still have a library system by then!), they can have any books my girls don’t want. Hopefully, the books will find good homes.
Deb, Diane and I have donated books to our local Public Library, usually bestsellers. And, like you, I’ve purchased dozens of ebooks for my iPad. But I prefer the feel of a real print book.
Duh. Yeah, you could say so. But I have never been able to understand someone who sorts books by color. How do they find anything? Alphabetical is the ONLY way to go.
Jeff, I’m an alphabetical guy, but Patrick organizes his books by color. He somehow finds what he’s looking for with that organizing strategy. You can just image in his wall of blue books in his apartment! Patrick, Katie, and some friends are in Las Vegas running a marathon today.
It’s funny. Years ago, maybe 50, a friend of my parents told them that when he goes to the library to get something to read, he looks for “red” books. We thought he was nuts then, but color-coding seems to have caught on with a certain percentage of the population. Weird.
That’s because Patrick has a razor-sharp mind. In 20 years, I doubt he’ll be able to pick out one blue book from another.
Jeff, even with my alphabetic organizing schemes for the books, I’m constantly looking for titles I’ve misplaced or mis-shelved.
For some people, color serves as a memory trigger. Others are just following one or another odd crotchet.
Yes.
I haven’t had an organized library since about 7 or 8 or 11 domiciles ago, when my ex and I (and, briefly, her brother) lived in a three-level townhouse with built-in shelves in the living room and the finished-basement level walls lined with free-standing shelves. Mostly organized by kind of book (fiction, nonfiction of varying sorts, etc.) and not terribly sorted out too much beyond that, though I did tend to keep their authors or editors together within their categories.
Todd, I have a section of anthologies organized by editor. Ellen Datlow, Martin H. Greenberg, and Gardner Dozois books take up a lot of space!