I have nine large (3-4 feet x 6 feet) bookcases. They do not hold all of my books.
I had Ikea shelving for a third of my collection until last week. I've given up and gone back to bookcases.
Who died and made you Elvis?
Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Micole - Jul 08, 2004 5:00:02 pm PDT #4876 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Ginger - Jul 08, 2004 5:04:40 pm PDT #4877 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ouch! My bookcases are mostly from unfinished furniture places, plus some yard-sale finds. I dream of a having real library with built-in shelves the way some people dream of Jaguars and diamonds.
Betsy HP - Jul 08, 2004 5:21:19 pm PDT #4878 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Paula Danziger died today. No link; I don't know if it will make the newswires, but the news comes from somebody I trust.
erikaj - Jul 08, 2004 5:37:03 pm PDT #4879 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I loved her books. And yes, yet another person who gets "Do you read all those books?" And, from all my murder and cop talk "How can you read all that stuff?"(Because I was Philip Marlowe in another life. :) My family generally gives me books and says things like "This was the dirtiest thing I ever read. Do you want it?"
Tam - Jul 08, 2004 5:53:00 pm PDT #4880 of 10002
"...Singing their heads off, protected by the holy ghosts, flying in from the ocean, driving with their eyes closed." - Patty Griffin "Florida"
Paula Danziger died today. No link; I don't know if it will make the newswires, but the news comes from somebody I trust.
:( Very, very sad. She was a genius.
JoeCrow - Jul 08, 2004 6:11:26 pm PDT #4881 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
I think at this point my wife and I have more books than apartment. I dream of being able to have them shelved one book deep. Also, of being able to shelve my comics, instead of marooning them in longboxes...
Of course, we'd need probably a whole other house to live in, then. But I'm comfortable with that.
Emlah - Jul 09, 2004 3:32:45 am PDT #4882 of 10002
To every idea a shelf...
THANK you, Joe. That is a wonderful, wonderful poem.
Seconded to the nth degree. Delicious.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 09, 2004 3:37:00 am PDT #4883 of 10002
What is even happening?
Paula Danziger died today. No link; I don't know if it will make the newswires, but the news comes from somebody I trust.
Oh no. Betsy, I saw your post the other day mentioning her heart problems. How old was she? :(
(I suddenly have the urge to eat pistachios)
msbelle - Jul 09, 2004 4:33:59 am PDT #4884 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The posts here today led me to culling some books off my cases as I moved them last night. Not much, but after moving all the bookcases this month I think I pulled a total of 10 books off. I think my shelves will clear out as I start reading more off the TBR shelves. Surely I like everything that is there.
And getting back in the habit of using my library has helped to slow the buying of more.
Steph L. - Jul 09, 2004 4:50:04 am PDT #4885 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Paula Danziger died today. No link; I don't know if it will make the newswires, but the news comes from somebody I trust.
Oh, no! God, I love her books!
(I suddenly have the urge to eat pistachios)
Heh. Me, too.