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.
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'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."
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
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.
sj - Apr 20, 2015 2:20:20 pm PDT #23249 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Right now I have many of my YA books in the bookshelf that is in what will be the baby's room along with other children books. However, I'm probably going to move them to make room for more books for ltc. Where I'm going to move them, I don't know. All of my bookshelves are maximized and I still have quite a few books in boxes, including several boxes of writing books from a bookshelf I had to take down to make room for the new china cabinet.
Calli - Apr 20, 2015 2:36:50 pm PDT #23250 of 28333
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My second bedroom has three six-foot book cases. I have series I love (mostly still expanding) at eye level (upper shelves), arranged in series order (where appropriate). I have religious studies and literature on lower shelves, where I can sit on the floor and cross check things. I have reference stuff on middle shelves where they're easy to find and things I'm going to put on Bookmooch or sell double stacked in front of the less used reference stuff. I have Mount Toberead in a three foot shelf in the living room. Extended unemployment helped reduce that a bit, but not as much as I expected. Cookbooks and history are in a couple of other three footers in the living room (one of those also has my liquor and bar glasses). My bedroom has mostly series I loved ages ago (comfort reading), computer books that I should probably toss (outdated), and miscellaneous non-series books or books where I haven't decided if I'm going to pursue the series further.
Atropa - Apr 20, 2015 2:37:41 pm PDT #23251 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I shelve kinda-sorta by subject matter/genre/author. Plus an entire bookcase of vampire books.
Connie Neil - Apr 20, 2015 2:45:14 pm PDT #23252 of 28333
brillig
I don't think I'm going to be able to organize properly until I move.
DavidS - Apr 20, 2015 5:23:59 pm PDT #23253 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Where I'm going to move them, I don't know.
I had to sell 800 LPs when Emmett was born to make room for him.
Consuela - Apr 20, 2015 8:22:17 pm PDT #23254 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Just finished reading White Teeth, only 15 years after it came out!
That was fun. Could have been tighter, but I got a kick out of the way it all came together at the end. Sort of like a far less bloody-minded Martin McDonough.
erikaj - Apr 21, 2015 5:39:13 pm PDT #23255 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
That was funny! Especially the Muslim group named KEVIN("We have an acronym problem.")
Consuela - Apr 22, 2015 4:46:52 am PDT #23256 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Loved the acronym problem, and how it became a running joke.
And the mouse escaped! Go mouse!
I could read more of Zadie Smith, but now I'm going to read a werewolf Marine romance by a friend of mine. And then maybe Kalpa Imperial, which I have heard good things of.