I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

Buffy ,'Chosen'


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."


Kathy A - Nov 07, 2006 10:30:09 am PST #1447 of 28147
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

My paperback romances are all in author alphabetical order, with series/trilogies together and in order, which makes it easy when I want a certain book in that particularly overstuffed bookshelf (double stacked, so hard to find). My non-romance fiction is organized by genre, and authors with multiple titles are grouped together, but other than that, it's a bit jumbled. All my nonfiction (other than the oversized titles, which are grouped together on the bottom shelf) is organized by subject matter, and all my history is subdivided (military history is grouped in chronological order by war, European history is together, as is medieval history).

Yes, I've worked in both libraries and bookstores, why do you ask?


brenda m - Nov 07, 2006 10:34:35 am PST #1448 of 28147
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

My paperback romances are all in author alphabetical order, with series/trilogies together and in order,in a series of stacks on the floor or under the bed which makes it easy a crapshoot when I want a certain book in that particularly overstuffedstacked bookshelf floor(double stacked, so hard to find). My non-romance fiction is organized by genre, and authors with multiple titles are grouped together, mostly on various bookshelves but other than that, it's a bit jumbled. All my nonfiction (other than the oversized titles, which are grouped together on the bottom shelf) is organized by subject matter, and all my history is subdivided (military history is grouped in chronological order by war, European history is together, as is medieval history) also wedged on those shelves. Mostly.


erikaj - Nov 07, 2006 10:37:04 am PST #1449 of 28147
Always Anti-fascist!

my bookshelves are scary fricking messes. Like my brain.


Kathy A - Nov 07, 2006 10:39:03 am PST #1450 of 28147
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Hee, brenda!!!

I can't imagine what my apartment would look like if I hadn't weeded out a third of my collection before I moved. Well, more overtaken by books than it is now, I guess. My mom was impressed with how clean and well-organized my apartment was when she visited for the first time last week, and I told her to be sure to take pictures of my living room and dining room bookshelves and show them to my stepsister, who had been impressed with Mom's book collection, which is about 1/10th the size of mine.


Connie Neil - Nov 07, 2006 10:54:00 am PST #1451 of 28147
brillig

Most of the books are in the garage. I started to organize them, then Hubby started to "help." Some of the books are still in the storage shed, some are on shelves in the living room, some are in the back bedroom, some are . . .

I need more shelves. I need one of those smut libraries to keep things in.


§ ita § - Nov 07, 2006 10:57:28 am PST #1452 of 28147
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wait--so those of you who shelve chronologically or alphabetically within an author will break up series to fit that pattern?


beth b - Nov 07, 2006 10:57:35 am PST #1453 of 28147
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

DH would like all the books to stand straight - no lying down on the job. There issn't room, I must stack. so he tried to question my georgette heyers. I sicked Deb on him.


Aims - Nov 07, 2006 10:59:07 am PST #1454 of 28147
Shit's all sorts of different now.

ita, good point. I keep series together, regardless of date of release.

And thinking about it more, it's usually just the authors who don't write in trilogies, etc that get put in chrono order by release. If I tried plain chrono with Nora Roberts, I'd never find a damn thing.


Strega - Nov 07, 2006 11:48:07 am PST #1455 of 28147

I shelve most things by author. Except for when I don't. Like, sometimes related non-fiction goes with the fiction it's about (so the the LoEN annotations are with the Alan Moore stuff). And also except the Sherlockian books, which I just put on their own shelf because it seems silly to have it all scattered under each author, and equally silly to put it all with Doyle. Oh, and then books of essays and stuff like that are mixed in, also by author, because am I going to put Last Chance to See across the room from Dirk Gently? And what do I do with Ellison? That leaves, let's see, anthologies and collections with multiple authors, and some assorted nonfiction & reference books. Which in theory is collected together on a separate bookcase in some kind of coherent system, but in actuality is in a large pile on the sofa because that's when I got sick of dealing with it last time I tried to put my books in order.


Sparky1 - Nov 07, 2006 11:57:31 am PST #1456 of 28147
Librarian Warlord

As a librarian, I shelve everything at home by size because it's the most efficient method and shelf space is limited in my small apartment.