Generous Beth Fedyn sent me this wonderful book with its humor and love of reading. Grant Snider’s clever drawings capture all the aspects of reading and collecting books: the angst, the joy, the disappoints, and thrills. As a book lover, you’ll enjoy this fun book with its wit and celebration of books! Highly recommended! What’s on your bookshelf? GRADE: A
Table of Contents:
- I’m in love with books
- I read in social situations
- I will use anything as a bookmark
- I confuse fiction with reality
- I am wanted for unpaid library fines
- I steal books from my children
- I like my realism with a little bit of magic
- I like to sniff old books
- I am searching for a miracle cure for writer’s block
- I care about punctuation-a lot
- I will read the classics (someday)
- I am writing the great American novel
- I carry a notebook with me at all times
- I write because I must.
I hope you don’t mind me asking…can I borrow a few books?
Books everywhere…but we have been culling since Hurricane Katrina. Having a kindle helps—a lot of the books I buy or borrow are in ebook form. However, we still have shelves sagging with books in our dining room and along one complete wall of our bedroom.
Deb, I have a dozen boxes of books to donate to our local Library for their annual Library Sale, but the Library isn’t accepting books right now so I just have a whole wall of heavy boxes waiting to be moved out.
Culling? What is this culling? Well, occasionally when one of us reads a book we don’t need to keep, we donate it to our basement laundry room library. Like Deb, most new books we get (especially for Jackie) are ebooks. My Kindle is at over 800 books, and many of them are collections – Complete Dickens and Trollope and James, for example – so hundreds more. Plus, most of the new books we read are from the library, and Jackie only wants books she can read on the Kindle or Cloud, where possible.
Anyway, this looks great and I put it on reserve.
Jeff, you and Jackie will enjoy I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF as much as I did. Beth really knows my taste in books!
The last book I got from Beth was SCANDINAVIAN NOIR, which was well worth reading.
Jeff, Beth is the Santa Claus of books!
To me, YOU are the Santa Claus, George.
This looks great, too bad my library doesn’t have it.
Rick, just ask your Librarians to buy I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF. Most Librarian honor patron book requests.
Multnomah County library system is no longer taking purchase requests, George. They stopped in March.
Rick, bummer!
I had been reading classical novels and Science Fiction (not really interested in Fantasy) even as a teenager and at university I concentrated on the English, got a lot from the library of the America House, didn’t buy too many books however – no money.On a business trip to London I found a specialised bookstore (Dark They were and golden eyed) and also many second hand books on the markets there so I started collecting, wanting to get all the books by Asimov and other favourites of mine.
Now I got around 10 000 books and 2000 magazines and I am thinking of selling them …
No one in my family has the space to keep those books and of course I don’t want them to land in the garbage.
But of course in these crazy times it’s difficult.
PS:
Of course my bookshelf contains other stuff too, classical German books, IT and computer science and of course maths and physics – on all levels of abstraction …
Wolf, several of my book collecting friends have started to sell off parts of their collections. As they tell me, “You can’t take books with you when you go.”
The simple aanswer to what’s on my boklshelf is too much. And I’m just back from buyong one more.
Kent, I’m finding fewer and fewer books to buy. But, I am finding plenty of music CDs and DVDs for a pittance!
Based on my last comment I should get one on proofreading. Or at least reread before I post.
Kent, sometimes the WORDPRESS spell checker changes my words and I end up sounding like I’m on some psychotropic drug!
As for what’s on my bookshelf, the answer is thousands of books, mostly science fiction, fantasy and mystery, with some general fiction and a little non-fiction. Lots of hardcovers, lots more paperbacks. Also many in boxes and some in bags. Every time I try to cull, I end up buying more books.
Rick, believe it or not, I’m buying fewer books in 2020. But, I’m making up for it in music CDs!