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5/31/2014: I woke up early this Saturday morning. And the light and shadows were crazy-wonderful. This is the stack of craft books by my bed.
Vignette: Ilford-6x6 film
recent selections/finds at the library booksale. Does this happen to others? Often my bookstacks are so strongly cohesive/harmonic.
"From the heart of this dark, evacuated campus
I can hear the library humming in the night,
a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
along the unlit, alphabetical shelves."
Billy Collins, "Books", in The Apple that Astonished Paris. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. page 31.
This is called a "range finder" (which always makes me hum home home on the range).
Pop Quiz . . .
Would this book be in this range (between CC 75 and D 62)?
(put your answer in the comments section)
Category: Travel and Language, but not when it's also Star Trek.
Most of my books are going into storage. To remind me what I own, I'm taking pictures and sorting them by categories to make it easier to find the right box later.
She doesn't care how many people she gets to an event. She does it because she loves it. And she is a great act to follow...
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The Great Court of the British Museum, London with its fabulous ceiling.
In the original Robert Smirke design the courtyard was meant to be a garden. However, in 1852–7 the Reading Room and a number of bookstacks were built in the courtyard to house the library department of the Museum and the space was lost.
In 1997, the Museum’s library department was relocated to the new British Library building in St Pancras and there was an opportunity to re-open the space to public.
An architectural competition was launched to re-design the courtyard space. There were over 130 entries and it was eventually won by Lord Foster.
The only one of these I've read so far is Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which was absolutely wonderful. I hope to get to the others this summer!
- Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
- Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, vol. 1), by Neal Stephenson
- Confusion (Baroque Cycle, vol. 2), by Neal Stephenson
- The System of the World (Baroque Cycle, vol. 3), by Neal Stephenson
- Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Left: English -> Fiction
Right: English -> Science Fiction -> Clarke.
Even though the Pratchett stack is bigger, I have more Clarke books, because there's half a dozen again in the "German" stack.
Most of my books are going into storage. To remind me what I own, I'm taking pictures and sorting them by categories to make it easier to find the right box later.
al got all these books from the library today. you can see her interests are nerdy. greenly thinks he looks stoic.
These books are some of the latest I've been reading through for Dr. Powell's 'Research Methods and Bibliography' class. It's really easy, and I don't have to read the entire book each time they are assigned; however, the book by Hart here is excellent and I wish I had time to finish it. I'm looking forward to digging into the 'Postmodern Bible' next week.
- Invitation to Theology: A Guide to Study, Conversation, and Practice, by Michael Jinkins
- Faith Thinking: The Dynamics of Christian Theology, by Trevor Hart
- The Postmodern Bible, by The Bible and Culture Collective (many peeps)