You don't have Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour ?
Photo was taken 2½ months ago, before it came out.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2010 10:38:00 am PDT #12133 of 28342
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
sumi - Aug 20, 2010 10:40:41 am PDT #12134 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
My books, cds, etc are currently in no order. It's sad. I used to have them alphabetized in each shelf and had kind of a rough sort of which book went in which shelf - generally by size. I have a couple of shelves that can only work with mass market paperbacks and some books that are tall enough, etc that they can only nr placed on particular shelves. But, currently, it's complete book anarchy.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2010 10:42:34 am PDT #12135 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Photo was taken 2½ months ago, before it came out.
Explanation accepted.
-t - Aug 20, 2010 10:45:20 am PDT #12136 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What I like to do is fiction by author and non-fiction by broad topic (I like to have religion and physics close together, for example), but I have been buying books a lot more rapidly than I've been organizing them and the system has totally broken down. So, piles.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2010 10:53:52 am PDT #12137 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh yeah, I have lots of piles right now.
Strega - Aug 20, 2010 10:59:26 am PDT #12138 of 28342
My books are grouped into comics, fiction, and I guess "other" (non-fiction, poetry, anthologies, textbooks), and then they're in order by author/title.
Once upon a time I did organize more by genre or subject, but I had considerably fewer books in those days, and plenty of shelf space. I do still clump all the Sherlockian books together because it seems silly not to, though. And I guess I may do the same with the Faction Paradox books when I finish reading them, actually.
DVDs are broken into movies & TV shows, mostly for space reasons, and then sorted by title. With the CDs I still have, I think soundtracks & anything with multiple artists is on one shelf by title; everything else is artist/title.
Beverly - Aug 20, 2010 11:02:41 am PDT #12139 of 28342
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm with Scola--everything by height. In fact, we're finalizing plans for the wall o'shelves in the living room, according to however many of whichever height, plus dvds. the ultimate goal? Everything out of boxes and on shelves all at the same time. We've never managed it before.
We do try to roughly group by subject (kids' books, fiction, photography, etc.), but height is the primary factor.
Hayden - Aug 20, 2010 11:16:22 am PDT #12140 of 28342
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Height is also a concern in our house, but there's not much organization past that.
sj - Aug 20, 2010 11:21:46 am PDT #12141 of 28342
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My books are separated by subject and then alphabetized first by author and then by title within the author. Other than the books I have no room for which are randomly piled in corners.
beth b - Aug 20, 2010 12:19:37 pm PDT #12142 of 28342
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Fiction rough sort by first in initial of authors last name -- authors together, but space is at a premium, so no strict alphabetizing. non-Fiction is rough sort by the subject I think they are in the order I think they belong. There were to be no other items on the bookshelves but books -- that rule doesn't get followed. and the big shelf need cleaning , it is all higgly-piggly.
Music is not sorted . I couldn't decide how to do it -- it was supposed to be Matt's job. But it never really happened. I started doing it, but there is no where near enough room for it all. That may be part of my project when i take vacation at the end of the month
of course, there are piles every where. I wasn't counting those