an interior designer and book lover who designs libraries for clients and who believes that guest rooms, hallways, even bathrooms (nonsteamy ones, that is) can be ideal domains for books.
Take that, Clean Sweep! Books on shelves! Hah!
Of course, the other clutter in the house--armor, various boxes, stuff, keeps me from getting to a lot of my book shelves, otherwise I'd be editing. I have little trouble getting rid of books, because I generally take them to a used book store that gives me credit towards more books.
She doesn't
stack rows behind rows (keeps books from breathing and triggers looking-for-Goethe-in-a-haystack syndrome).
Hah. Hubby keeps telling me to do that.
I write in my books, too. I figure I'm going to keep them till they're falling apart, so I might as well maximize their usefulness.
I just read in my Wizard News update that
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
is going to be 608 pages long.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
was 870 pages and
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
was 734 pages long -- so she seems to be bucking her previous "getting longer with each book" trend.
That's good news, sumi. Any word on whether or not she's working with an editor.
I have a question for y'all. What is the origin of the phrase "Here be dragons?" I'm not even sure if that's the correct phrasing. I'm trying to recall if it's from a specific book or poem, or if it's just one of those things that's been around forever.
Thanks, ita! That's exactly what I was looking for.
Hey, ita, in that vein, what's the origin of the sentence "This is why we can't have nice things"?
I have done some serious book culling.(What prompted this was learning about a used book sale the local JCC is doing.) Scarily enough, once I finally shelved the books I had read and put on the book cases, there was
basically no net change. eep...
Salon has an interesting essay [link] about H.P. Lovecraft and the NY Times has one [link] about romance vs literary fiction.
Heavens. We haven't been very literary lately, have we?
I just finished A Scholar of Magics by Caroline Stevermer and it was charming. I wanted to thank people who originally recommended A College of Magics.
