My One Bookshelf in 1995

5 Responses to My One Bookshelf in 1995

1. PatrickP says:

   January 28, 2009 at 12:03 pm

   Oh! Time and Again. That’s the Jack Finney book, right? I enjoyed that story very much.

   Having just moved in with my boyfriend, I consolidated books and disposed of some, and now they’re all in boxes in a closet. Very sad.

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2. Therese says:

   January 28, 2009 at 12:04 pm

   Oh, it’s like a game of bookshelf Where’s Waldo? Let’s see, there’s Margaret Atwood, there’s the Gold Bug Variations . . .

   Many years ago, I worked at a used book store where the owner had a thing about books not being set down horizontally. Out of habit, it stuck with me. Stacks on the floor, no problem. Books behind other books, fine. But I can no longer set my own books horizontally. Reminds me of how you described not being able to bear the sight of an open book lying face down, spine facing up.

   A dire bookshelf is the sign of an interesting mind.

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3. red says:

   January 28, 2009 at 12:08 pm

   Therese – I know, I was just looking at the shelf, trying to see which ones I still have. Most of them are still in my collection!!

   I do not know what Ann, Anna, Annie is, though – I have no memory of that book.

   The horizontal book thing drives me batty as well, it makes my eyes itch … and yet I can fit more books in the shelves that way. I yearn one day to live in a space where I can SPREAD MY BOOKS OUT and not have to compromise my shelves like that!!

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4. red says:

   January 28, 2009 at 12:10 pm

   I also notice that this is 1995, before the great non-fiction push of the later 90s – which I still have not really emerged from. Most of this is fiction – and now my non-fiction far outnumbers the fiction.

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5. Therese says:

   January 28, 2009 at 12:31 pm

   I hope that book on Srbenica has a mound of skulls on the spine, too. ‘Cause that would look really, really cool.

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