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
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!
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!
A sample of some of the books on my bookshelf. Some are actually mine, and of those I've even read a few!