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This is the bookstacks stairwell in the Regenstein Library on the University of Chicago campus. This is a metaphor for that sinking feeling I get when I spend too much time in the library trying to write a paper without actually getting anywhere.

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Thank you Lenabem-Anna for letting me use this gorgeous background. It goes perfectly with this storybook photo

It's finals week, and nobody pushes in their chair.

This splendid alteration to the old Drill Hall was made by John Rennie of Rennie Schurr Adenoff architects to house the Cape Town Central Library. A new free-standing book stack was introduced leaving the original curved steel roof to span across. Does anyone have photos of the way the Drill Hall was before?

ps The roof is curved ... and so is the issue desk itself ... but the curvature of the bookstacks is a fish-eye effect caused by the panorama-maker. This was 5 photos sewn together.

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Annie's Baby edited by Beatrice Sparks

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Death Becomes an Epiphany by Sharan Newman

The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon

Three Junes by Julia Glass

Quakertown by Lee Martin

  

"Uh, Ted? Did you see the last name of the guy who wrote this?"

"Uh, Michael? Did you see who wrote THIS?"

...

"I need beer, Ted."

"Me too, Michael."

A stack of some of the books I've read in the past two or three weeks. I just realized I've been reading a lot of family fiction lately; these four have one thing in common: skeletons in the family closet.

 

*For my book groups

the view from my office door

A timely message from the Reg bookstacks.

The unread lesbian books I haven't added to The Lesbrary yet.

For our anniversary, my husband surprised me with a trip to Barter Books, a used bookstore in a converted train station in Alnwick, England.

 

This was my haul, including 1 book which will eventually be gifted. (and the back cover of "Over the Reefs")

 

see here for the summary. The final book is "Branan the Pict" - one of those historical fiction books for kids, in this case related a pict and encounters with Saint Columba (I think).

As the shelves empty and the library closes its doors, we all file through and mourn the silence.

 

Leica M6 with Canon 35mm f2 LTM

 

Ilford Delta 3200

Developed in Kodak Xtol

Scanned on Epson V500

Cleaned and tweaked in Photoshop CS3

 

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As the shelves empty and the library closes its doors, we all file through and mourn the silence.

 

Leica M6 with Canon 35mm f2 LTM

 

Ilford Delta 3200

Developed in Kodak Xtol

Scanned on Epson V500

Cleaned and tweaked in Photoshop CS3

 

www.GeckoGPhotography.com

Food/Health

These pix show the drawback of being a book addict that owns a bookstore. It is like being an alcoholic bartender.

Stetson Tier 1 after shelves removed

My wife and I took family to the Harmony Hall plantation for a visit today. Stack of Baptist Hymnals in Harmony Hall Chapel.

Interior view showing the mezzanine level of book stacks. Light switches for each aisle. Skylight. Constructed in 1930 from a design by the architectural firm Holmes & Flinn. Building featured a cork floor. HP407

So I got some new books in the mail!!

 

1. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

2. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

3. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

4. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. The Stand by Stephen King

6. Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe

7. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

British Library book store, Micawber Street. Movable shelving winder.

Books I read in July and August 2012.

But then I can never stop! You cruel bastards!

The ground level reading and study area as it looked until about 2004.

September 2017.

Visiting properties taking part in London Open House 2017.

The London Library, founded in 1841, is one of the world's largest independent lending libraries.

Summer Reading (more or less):

 

Paul Celan - Collected Prose

James Joyce - Ulysses

WG Sebald - Austerlitz

Virginia Woolf - The Waves

Roland Barthes - S/Z

Jacques Derrida - Specters of Marx

Jacques Derrida - Of Grammatology

a little peek into a new design, 'alphabetty'...blogged

The last Masai warrior / Frank Coates

Swamplandia / Karen Russell

The third circle / Amanda Quick

The winter vault / Anne Michaels

Poison / Sara Pool

Crunch time / Diane Mott Davidson

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