AT HOME WITH BOOKS
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Our Daily Challenge 2-8 November: Bookcase/Bookshelf.
I found it very much trickier than I thought to make an interesting image.
I have hundreds of books which are mainly arranged by subject and size, so the choices are manifold
And of course its all flash indoors at the moment, which I HATE!
There is a slightly more creative one of a different shelf here www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/the-garden-in-winter/2651784
My somewhat more primitive and untidy contribution. Actually, significant contributions from the rest of the family as well.
Our house is under almost constant renovation. A's room is getting the treatment at the moment but having her books set up makes her happy!
there seemed to be a renewed interest in my old bookshelf photo, so i thought i would show you what the room looks like today.
almost done organizing all my books by colour. i'm thinking of putting all the white covers in another room altogether.
Manchmal kann frau einfach nicht warten, bis sie das Buch ausgeliehen und nach Hause getragen hat ;-)
"Ein Leben ohne Bücher ist wie eine Kindheit ohne Märchen, ist wie eine Jugend ohne Liebe, ist wie ein Alter ohne Frieden."
(Carl Peter Fröhling)
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What I mostly wanted as a child was a new book to read on the Christmas holidays. I think the longing must have run in our family, as these volumes belonged to my great Aunts Blanche & Lilly from the early 1900s. Back in the days of no media entertainment and no music unless you made it yourself, these books must have been treasures to them.
I think I promised somebody to show closeup of the bookshelf. So, if it was you, see, I do keep my promises. Even if I can't remember who it was to >_<
My Target bookshelf with Ikea bins, my James Dean screen, books, and photos. My Canon usually sits atop the yellow book, but of course I am holding it in this photo. Also seen is an Aiptek camcorder.
The screen hides an outlet and the plug for the Aiptek, which charges there.
I really must do something about the books in my house. This is a photo of the top three shelves of a bookcase in my living room. It's a pretty random mixture of things. I've read some of these books but most are unread. Of them, a few will be read in the future and a couple might be re-read. But most will never be read, or even opened, by me. I really must do something about it.
(The cone is a megaphone I got when the Tour de France came to England in 2007)
This shelf holds some of my most loved books.
From the left we have Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss, which I enjoyed, though it's by no means one of my most loved. Next to that is The Alienist by Caleb Carr and its sequel, The Angel of Darkness. I adored The Alienist, it being about the early days of criminal profiling in late 19th century NYC. Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit, is about five children finding a strange creature on the beach. I read it many, many times when I was a child.
As a pre-teen, I adored Lois Duncan, who wrote I Know What You Did Last Summer, if you've seen the movie. I wasn't too keen on that book; I much preferred Stranger With My Face (the beat-up slim purple volume just to the left of middle), about a set of twins separated at birth who could engage in astral projection.
Yet another Anne McCaffrey volume, this one being The White Dragon, all about Lord Jaxom and his albino dragon Ruth. Jennifer Crusie's Faking It isn't about what you think it is; it's about a family who owns an art gallery. I'm pretty sure their business is counterfeiting works of art, but it's been a while since I read it. I thoroughly enjoyed it, however. And then we have Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus. I really, really loved this book, which is about a woman who married a Confederate veteran when she was 15 and he was 50. She tells her story to a young candy-striper while in a nursing home near the end of her life -- and it's just the type of book I love. Lots of little vignettes held together by a common plot which moves through the main character's life.
I have yet to read The DaVinci Code and bought it primarily because everyone else owned it. But I got it from Costco, so I didn't pay much for it. I haven't read The Handmaid's Tale yet either, but I plan to. The Three Musketeers is an excellent book, even if I end up replaying the movie with Chris O'Donnell in my head as I read.
My collection of Observer's books, from my Mum, & Beatrix Potter, from my own childhood
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