A Grateful Shelfie

[minoanmiss]

So, several wonderful people posted images of their bookshelves for me. The least I could do was to post one of mine (with thanks to gingicat my official photographer). This is dedicated to amaebi and lemonsharks!



This is the bookcase by the window. The Snake Goddess statuette is thanks to my friend Intosnarkness @ Tumblr. The shelf behind her contains my smaller Minoan books (not the art books, mostly) and Egyptian books and Classical books. The next shelf down has music (the taller sideways books are songbooks) and the next shelf down has a lot of folklore (including a bunch of Time-Life Enchanted World Series.)

ETA: Here's the other bookcase. I had to edit this one a bit: the red things are blankets on a rack behind the bookcase, as J's bedroom is behind it.



This features a mighty Wonder Woman given me by petra. The top two shelves have history books. Guns Germs and Steel takes pride of place because putting it like that amused me after the last time I referred to it. (I could write an essay about that book -- time and science march on, but I love it for its premise.) The biggest books on the second shelf are some large Minoan books, an art catalogue and a couple of books about foodways and chemical archaeology. The third shelf has more archaeology and fiction plus.a collection of magazine articles in report covers.

(there are more shelves -- including most of my non-archaeology science books and all the Star Wars books J shares with me-- but then we get to the floor. The cookbooks are in my bedroom because I like to read them in bed. And all of this is a ridiculous amount of babbling in text.)

Hooray for shelfies!

Comments

[baranduin]

That’s a great book collection.

[minoanmiss]

Did you spot the LOTR? :D

[baranduin]

Second bookcase, second shelf, far right :-)

[minoanmiss]

WOOT!

That's the copy I bought back in 2004 when I got into the fandom. :) My childhood Ballantines are on the paperback bookcase, which we did not photograph.

[bikergeek]

This is one of the rare occasions on which I wish DW had a "Like" button.

[catdetective]

oh, nice!

[sabotabby]

Oooh, I love seeing people's bookshelves! I should post mine. They're a mess. :)

[cmcmck]

See my latest- it's specially for you! :o)

[kore]

That is BEAUTIFUL. I love your women power statues too! I should totally post pictures of mine for you, they're fully loaded up and what T calls "double parked" -- books in front of books.

[used_songs]

Every shelf I own is double parked too- I would love to have more shelves, but the same thing would probably happen again.

[kore]

Yeah, and I have piles on the floor. (SHAME! SHAME!)

[used_songs]

I was under the impression that constitutes interior design!

[kore]

Poor T, the floor on his side of the bed is like half filled up with bookcases, and then most of the rest of the half is piled up books which block the view of some of the bookcases. /o\

[minoanmiss]

Sounds about right!

My bookcases no longer look quite as they did, as I did some rearranging in order to drumroll fit more books!

[kore]

AS THE GODDESS HERSELF INTENDED AMIRITE

[amaebi]

I like your bookcases.

[alatefeline]

Yay, shelfies!! I would like to post some soon, this is a great idea.

[gingicat]

"all the Star Wars books J shares with me"

Aka, "has been stealing from my bookshelf and reading while lying on the floor since he was in first grade, and has tattered the pages and book jackets."

[minoanmiss]

Enh, he's reading and he's happy. Next time I have money I should buy the one about the ships. :)

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I cannot take pictures of my shelves at this time, but I have three Saunders shelves which are double rowed, two low shelves that I've hoisted into hutch positions, again double rowed.

I need to do some rearranging, so I can bring in a shelf I have brought 300 miles so it could enjoy holding my books.

Thankfully my books continue to find me useful.

[kore]

Thankfully my books continue to find me useful.

Aww, that's great.

[darkmarcy]

Ooh what a lovely collection! I should post my own shelfie, you're inspiring!

[vettecat]

I just love the word "shelfie."

[used_songs]

I have that Wonder Woman! I love her. She looks like she's maybe had one drink too many and is getting ready to have words!

[minoanmiss]

And by words we mean THROW DOWN :D

[used_songs]

XD

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

I'm with vettecat. I just love the word shelfie.

I can see most of the above folks are with me when it comes to that button of mine, the one that says "I gave my books their own room. Now they want the whole house.".

Double parked? My "solution" is to use free-standing cinderblock and board bookcases, accessible from both sides. And then put books on their sides on top of the other books.

You haven't seen my place, but I consider you a "talented amateur" when it comes to book owning. :)

Ann O., buying books since before you were born (:-/

[ilyena_sylph]

Gorgeous statues and shelves!

A book currently in my hands at work: The history of Minoan pottery / by Philip P. Betancourt.

[minoanmiss]

OH MY GOODNESS you can't stop there! Why do you have this nifty book? What's its ISBN? I want to see if I've read it. :D

[ilyena_sylph]

It needed some breaks fixed, so now it's all better :).

ISBN is 9780691035796.

[minoanmiss]

You fix books for a living! I didn't know that! That is so nifty!

I don't own this one but I have read it in paperback.

[ilyena_sylph]

+grins+ I do! Best part of my job. If also the most exasperating at some points. Physical processing and preservation of library materials, that's me!

And overseeing students.

Yay it's something you've read, Booo I didn't get to tell you about a new thing! +wry+

[minoanmiss]

Hey, I always love hearing about Minoan things. aNd about book conservation! One of my bestest friends trained in book conservation and I'm fascinated.

[gingicat]

Sheesh, I talk to you every day, and I don’t think I knew that was your job either!