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!
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.
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.
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.
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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Our bookshelf transformed into a makeshift Jabba the Hutt playset complete with Rancore cave below! I seriously wish I would have thought of this as a kid, it's so simple and so completely fun. In the future, I may even consider adding a real trap door to the shelf Jabba sits on ... and perhaps another shelf above featuring EV-9D9 and the droid "reprogramming" room. Endless hours of Tattooine playtime!
Jabba Week (tm) was a smashing success. Thanks to all who participated. Goodbye Jabba, until next time!
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!
Misc & Graphic Design
Tao Te Ching
America (The Book)
Spanish Dictionary
The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage
Howdunit (How Crimes are Committed and Solved)
Rip-Off (A Writer's Guide to Crimes of Deception)
101 Things You Should Know How to Do
120 Diseases
How Does Aspirin Find a Headache?
Professional Practices in Graphic Design
Careers by Design
Looking Closer (Critical Writing on Graphic Design)
100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers
Graffiti World
The Designer's Desktop Manual
1000 Type Treatments
The Project Lettering Book
Typography
Web Design: Portfolios
Beautiful Evidence
Visual Explanations
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (x2)
Miscellaneous stuff, change sobe, and DVDs & Video Games (Only a small small portion of my DVDs are here)
My shelves at their current sage. The to-read books take up the bottom one and a half shelves, and all those books on the floor underneath are my latest hostages from the library.
Bookshelf bird, measures 3.5" in diameter. Hand formed, hand painted and glazed. Check out my etsy shop to see more. www.joyelizabethceramics.etsy.com