Willow ,'Empty Places'
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."
All done! At least, with the ones I haven't loaned out. 618 books--not too bad, but not too much for the next time I have to move, either!
I've been contemplating maybe going back to a bookstore to work for the Christmas season, but not until next fall (too much going on this year). If I do, then I'll have to watch out for my book-buying, otherwise most of the check will end up with the company instead of paying off my bills.
I pretty much finished this afternoon, topping out at around 500-odd books that aren't cookbooks or kids' books. One thing that this has brought home for me is that I have a whole lotta books that I know I've had within the last couple of years that I can no longer find. Absolam! Absolam!, for instance, which I remember re-reading 3 years ago. Then there's Ulysses, which I had in a lovely large-font version, Lolita, Cryptonomicon, and a handful of others. I should probably make a list, but it might fill me with sour grapes. For all I know, I gave them away instead of permanently loaning them out.
One thing that this has brought home for me is that I have a whole lotta books that I know I've had within the last couple of years that I can no longer find.
Oh yeah, for sure. But I've also trashed a lot of books in the past few years in dejunking frenzies, so that might be a culprit as well. And I no longer have any real idea what's in the back stack on any shelves that have them.
Still, fun! I've remembered books I haven't thought about in a long time, and seen others on people's lists that had me scurrying over to Amazon.
After today's big push, though, I think I'll just be adding sporadically.
ETA - which reminds me, Kushiel's Dart is in my latest go pile. Anyone wants, just e me. (I just could never get into it, and I'm really trying to keep only books I either have some affection or interest in, or that I'm really seriously planning on getting around to someday. That's a big enough number as it is without hanging on to things that never did grab me.)
I've got to go through the writing shelf and remind myself which ones I still have versus the ones I had and got rid of.
I have 28 Roger Zelazny books! Gosh! And off to join the Buffistas group.
I've just been going through my list and adding all the correct cover icons that are available. I might go ahead and hook up my scanner tomorrow and add icons for those that don't have them yet (a lot of my more obscure romances, mostly).
That cloud option is really frightening--"Nora Roberts" is in a massive font size!!
Oh, I love the cloud.
Oh, I love the cloud.
I had no idea I had so many Roger Zelazny books till I hit the author cloud and he overwhelmed everything.
Yes, I just did finish putting a whole bunch more in, joined a couple of groups, began immersing myself . . . I'm doomed.
I had no idea I had so many Roger Zelazny books till I hit the author cloud and he overwhelmed everything.
The author cloud is fun for this -- I'm obviously aware that my library leans heaveily towards SF and cookbooks, but, um, woah. (What the author cloud doesn't capture is all the medical history books, since those don't tend to be by repeat authors. I should add tags.)
I dread what's going to happen when I start adding my manga and cookbook collections into this thing.