AT HOME WITH BOOKS
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i'm done organizing my books by colour. and now i'm almost out of space. i better start thinning the herd.
update oct 2007: here is the room now. more books! comfy pillows and blankies and 'neverything!
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.
For Macro Mondays Group
Subject: In A Line
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These are Buddhist prayer flags that are strung across my bookshelf. Each flag presents a symbol and one word of the Sanskrit mantra 'Om mani padme hum'.
Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hum, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the embodiment of compassion. Viewing the written form of the mantra is said to have the same effect -- it is often carved into stones and placed where people can see them.
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.
The shelves next to the window in the Round Rock, TX library. Taken from the outside looking in on a day they were closed. For 118 pictures in 2018, #108, "bookcase/bookshelf".
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 >_<
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.
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)
Made to donate to Reston Interfaith for their silent auction fundraiser on Feb. 10. This was such a fun project and I love the way it came out! Thanks to all the folks at the DC Modern Quilt Guild meeting in January for your feedback and support!
Obviously these aren't all my books. Several of them belong to Grace, including the copy of Charlotte's Web. Mine was paperback. Some of my older books are on this shelf, like Emily Post's Etiquette and First Steps in Cooking. I picked them both up at antique stores.
I also picked up those Shel Silverstein books at the thrift store. Thing is, I totally forgot I already had a copy of A Light In the Attic. My first copy is just out of range of the photo, to the right of the Heinlein book.
My collection of Observer's books, from my Mum, & Beatrix Potter, from my own childhood
#augustbreak2014 #bookshelf #books #vintage #reading #vscocam
A sample of some of the books on my bookshelf. Some are actually mine, and of those I've even read a few!
This is my manga collection - I used to collect them like cRazY....and then Flickr user ihave3fish showed me the wonderful world of KAWAII - and I have been hooked ever since!
Miscellaneous stuff, change sobe, and DVDs & Video Games (Only a small small portion of my DVDs are here)
I'm going to obsessively annotate this, just for fun. and yeah, it's not strictly philosophy. Some of that is my liberal categorization, and some is sloppy shelving since I just moved and haven't had a chance to organize it properly.