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Money spent on books is always money well spent!
"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."
When I ran away from home as a child, I took a wagon, my sleeping bag and a globe. My mother put this little gift together to remind me of that time.
Here is a scarecrow, lazying about next to Saint Thomas More, here on the ol' bookshelf. I love the quirkiness of it.
File name: 08_02_006122
Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches (loose items)
Title: Roxbury Crossing Branch. Adults' reading room
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Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.
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Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Reading rooms; Reading; Bookstacks
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Boatwright Library first floor book stacks during winter break. I love the smell of the books and journals and loved the first section without lights contrasted the back section fully lite.
This isn't Vancouver -- it's my backyard with a deer wondering what the hell I'm doing creeping gradually closer and closer, snapping pictures of it from behind the stack of books I picked up while I was in the city last weekend.
In the hipster-doofus bookstore Pulp Fiction (my kind of bookstore) I found Chris Adrian's The Children's Hospital which I read from the library and loved loved loved as well as another Murakami (which the girl behind the counter said was her fav and one of M's weirder ones [which is saying something]) and two John Varley's (I was extremely happy to find the out of print The Persistence of Vision short story collection (replaced by his collected stories now) - the title story is one of his best. Many thanks to Spider Robinson and his podcast at www.spiderrobinson.com/podcast.html for introducing me this master. (Follow the link and scroll down to find Robinson reading POV on 11/9/08.)
The other books, less in style than the above, Tanith Lee, Micheal Moorcock and the pulp master Robert E. Howard (of Conan fame, though these seem to be western stories), I got at the former Bookworm, now Anna's Books, on the cheap which is the great thing about the old pocket paperbacks, the same number of words as the tradepaper backs, amazingly exploitative covers of questionable taste, yet for around 3 bucks Canadian.
So I took another step closer and the deer got up and walked off to find a less odd backyard to sleep in. It wasn't going to get any rest anyways - I had to let Haley and Annie (see my past bookstacks) out to use their open-air washroom and they usually bay horribly and send any deer running for the hills
As opposed to going skiing, skating, or engaging in any other wintry sport, I did a bit of reading...
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Ebay Lot of Gore Vidal Books
(Kalki, Julian, 1876, Lincoln, Williwaw-Three by Gore Vidal,...)
$10 for the Lot
December 12, 2011
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH25
It turns out that March will be a science fiction month (dystopia, mostly) for me. I will be reading:
The Killables by Gemma Malley
All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (rereading before the film, of course)
Partials by Dan Wells (e-book)
Starters by Lissa Price (e-book)
British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. Looking down onto the ground floor. Miles and miles of books. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. The massive steelwork is a legacy of the building's original purpose of manufacturing armaments. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
So, Wes pointed out this old photo of my stack of books that I had aspirations of slowly reading my way though. This prompted me to collect a new, more reasonable stack of books that I hope to read in the near future. Of course, I will have purchased more books before I make my way through all of these, which will only expand the stack.
Mark Kurlansky - Salt
Rudolph Chelminski - The Perfectionist
Jeffrey Steingarten - The Man Who Ate Everything
Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential
Harold McGee - The Curious Cook
David Morrell - The Totem
Billy Waugh - Hunting the Jackal
Jeffrey Robinson - The Merger
Gary Berntsen - Jawbreaker
Robert Kaplan - Balkan Ghosts
David McCullough - 1776
Jeff Shaara - Rise to Rebellion
Jeff Shaara - The Glorious Cause
James Clavell - Whirlwind
Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Anne Applebaum - Gulag
David McCullough - John Adams
David McCullough - The Great Bridge
The Psalms, by Luigi Giussani
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, by John Wesley
The Doors of the Sea: Where was God in the Tsunami?, by David Bentley Hart
Virtuous Passions, by G. Simon Harak, S.J.
Searching for God Knows What, by Donald Miller
The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics, by Hans Frei
The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age, by George Lindbeck
Torture and Eucharist, by William Cavanaugh
Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Centure Theology and Philosophy, by Stanley Hauerwas
Heart of the World, Center of the Church: Communio Ecclesiology, Liberalism, and Liberation, by David Schindler
Liberation Theology After the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering, by Daniel M. Bell
Radical Orthodoxy: a new theology, edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward
Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation, edited by James K. A. Smith and James H. Olthuis
I read Giussani's The Psalms (good stuff), and the Radical Orthodoxy reader (mostly good stuff, some seemingly pointless stuff, and some totally outsanding stuff -- see Cavanaugh and Blond's essays).
Talk about late. It took me till April to get this done! The X-Men was a bit of nostalgia that didn't really hold up. Nile Shadows was a great library read which I then found on the discard pile for a buck! Awesome for me, not so great for anyone else on the island who might have wanted to get it out. But that is the rough and tumble world of library shelf space...
Finally got to read The Jewish Messiah which was as uncomfortable and odd as it was brilliant. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varnasi was another stand out in the year's reading.
I'm sort of shocked how short this pile is (partially cause it is very half-assed) but that is probably because of how complicated and varied life got. Some of it for ill, but at least I'm trying to pay attention and trying to deal with it.
I'll try and get my recent reading stack up soon.
File name: 08_02_005669
Box label: Boston Public Library: Interiors: Unidentified locations/physical plant & machinery/service buildings
Title: Open shelf room
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Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
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Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Bookstacks
Notes: Title from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.; This room is possibly located in the basement of the McKim building at the Boston Public Library Central Branch.; Image caption: About 3,000 books are placed in this room, under the following classes: Biography, Domestic Science, Economics & Business, Education, Essays, French, Gardening & Agriculture, German, Government, Health, History, Italian, Literary History, Manners & Customs, New Books (non-fiction), Philosophy & Psychology, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Science, Sociology, Spanish, Sports & Amusements, and Travel. The new non-fiction occupies the ranges on the right of the entrance.
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A visit to the public library in Saint Malo: Médiathèque de Saint-Malo, France
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Inspired by gem's bookstacks set here's a picture of what I borrowed after my last visit to my local library.
From top to bottom:
Melissa Hill - The last to know I have no idea what this is about but I liked the cover plus it looked new-ish, so I took it.
Stefan Merrill Block - The story of forgetting A story about early-onset Alzheimer's doesn't sound like a happy read, but I quite enjoyed it. Parts of it reminded me of Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel Extremely loud and incredibly close and Margaret Attwood's Blind assassin.
Donna Tartt - The little friend Her second novel after The secret history and just as good. I'm reading it at the moment and I've been totally sucked in already. I can't believe she's only written those two novels so far - I WANT MORE!
Stephenie Meyer - Twlight I wanted to know what all this fuss was about - and now I know. It's an okay-ish book, it's a bit lengthy in places. I didn't leave me gasping for more, I read the summaries of the remaining three books on Wikipedia, that was enough. Not sure if I want to see the movie or not...
Bill Bryson - I'm a stranger here myself I don't think I've read it but it might well be the same book that has been published in the UK as Notes from a big country. But even if it is, I'll gladly read it a second time.
Three books about Patchwork and Quilting I'm currently teaching my self the basics. I've managed two blocks so far, a Nine Patch and a Log Cabin. Not as difficult as I thought they would be and certainly lots of fun. The thin yellow one in the middle, Schätze aus der Restekiste (Treasures from the scrap box), is the best, but I hesitate to buy it myself. It costs €22 (US$32) O_o
I took this picture of my intended-to-read bookstack on April 12, 2005. Thanks to my pastor (and others), I got a bit side-tracked, but not regretfully so!
The Cost of Discipleship, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Politics of Jesus, by John Howard Yoder
The Peaceable Kingdom, by Stanley Hauerwas
The Story of God, by Michael Lodahl
The Ragamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning
The Road to Peace, by Henri Nouwen
The Powers that Be, by Walter Wink
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Introducing Postmodernism
Introducing Modernism
God Is Not ... religious, nice, "one of us", an american, a capitalist
God's Politics, by Jim Wallis
A New Kind of Christian, by Brian McLaren
The Heart of Christianity, by Marcus Borg
Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society, edited by Michael Budde and John Wright
Dead Man Walking, by Sister Helen Prejean
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, by Jacques Ellul
Violence, by Jacques Ellul
Apocalypes Now and Then, by Catherine Keller
Stranger at the Gate, by Mel White
Reefer Madness, by Eric Schlosser
The only one of these I read since then was Manning's The Ragamuffing Gospel -- a great book on grace! I'm still working through Bonhoeffer's awesome The Cost of Discipleship as time permits.
This is the picture that spurred the BookGarden idea and site.
An unbelievable surprise delight snuck in amongst the bookstacks. Kudos to John Portman. The circular stair below this conical skylight is reminiscent of those found in old traditional library bookstacks, and further entices students and public to explore the entire collection.
Tappe Architects (Library Architect)
Moseley Architects (Architect of Record)
John Portman Associates (Design Architect)
