My mom gave me her copy, too! And I'm the same with bedtime reading right now.
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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."
Amy - Apr 20, 2015 2:38:57 am PDT #23239 of 28333
Because books.
Ginger - Apr 20, 2015 11:29:49 am PDT #23240 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
So do y'all shelve Young Adult books together or by category? I've been putting them with children's books, but the children's book shelves are overloaded, and books like Code Name Verity seem more comfortable with the historical fiction. But then there are Madeleine L'Engle's books, which are all interlinked, though some are SF, some are non-SF young adult and some are adult.
I'm so confused. Also, I barely have the spoons to do the stuff I have to do, and suddenly rearranging the bookshelves seems like a fine idea. What are you thinking, brain?
Connie Neil - Apr 20, 2015 11:47:03 am PDT #23241 of 28333
brillig
All fiction by author, if I have the room. Non-fiction by category.
Ginger - Apr 20, 2015 11:50:36 am PDT #23242 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It would be easier if I had a long run of identical bookshelves, like a library. What I have is different bookshelves with different shelf heights.
Sue - Apr 20, 2015 12:04:04 pm PDT #23243 of 28333
hip deep in pie
Uh, I shelve by colour.
Sue - Apr 20, 2015 12:04:31 pm PDT #23244 of 28333
hip deep in pie
And a little bit by publisher.
-t - Apr 20, 2015 12:10:33 pm PDT #23245 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
All my books are currently in boxes or stacks on the floor. If they are on shelves it is pure happenstance where they might be.
Well, not quite all, but the vast majority. I can't pretend to have a system in place, even a theoretical system.
meara - Apr 20, 2015 12:27:53 pm PDT #23246 of 28333
I used to shelve by science-fiction-y (including young adult), non fiction, children's, and then an unorganized pile of romance and thriller. These days they are all electronic, so I can sort them however (i admit, I dislike, especially on the kindle. I can't find a way I like)
Ginger - Apr 20, 2015 2:01:56 pm PDT #23247 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
One reason why I'm pondering my shelves is that I'm trying to get rid of books, but I have so many books piled on the edges of shelves and in odd places that I don't know what I have.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 20, 2015 2:11:02 pm PDT #23248 of 28333
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I tend to shelve by subject matter, with Science Fiction and Fantasy shelved by author within that. However, the order of hardback subject areas gets shuffled around depending on which books are the heaviest/tallest, and thus should go on the outer edges of the shelves so I can fit smaller books horizontally across them.
While I think it would look neat to shelve by spine color, I would never again be able to find anything to reread if I did that.