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Bookshelf Tour #1
I don’t care about the Internet. I still look up definitions in my battered old dictionary which I’ve been lugging around the country for decades. Bartlett’s is also essential. I bought The First Folio of Shakespeare 1623 (printed in facsimile) … Continue reading
Snapshots
— Finished Shirley Jackson’s collected short stories. They are so unsettling that it is fair to say that it ruined my day yesterday. Although there are other factors in play. Wow. She is so effective. If all you have read … Continue reading
Ex Libris
Alex Beam, a wonderful writer, writes about “the psychology of the bookplate” in Yale Alumni magazine. My father’s collection of books had some very nice bookplates (I actually would love to get some custom-made bookplates, in line with my retro … Continue reading
Tour of bookshelves: The bookshelf on the south wall
This one handled the spill-over of fiction, and then I went full-on to my favorite books in my collection: all of my movie books, and then also my young adult books. That takes up the majority of the space.
Tour of bookshelves: The bookshelf on the east wall
This is my biggest bookshelf. I thought: Okay, let’s just load it up with all of my nonfiction and fiction. The heavy-hitters. Let’s not try to cram them into the smaller shelf on the south wall, where they would have … Continue reading
Tour of bookshelves: The kitchen bookshelf
I wanted my major collection to be in my study, easy access. So. What to do with the random orphan bookshelf in the kitchen? Just to give you an idea of my thought process: My life may be a mess … Continue reading
Tour of bookshelves: The three-shelf in my hallway
I knew I didn’t want this particular shelf to have books I wanted to look at all the time. I also wanted to avoid (however) a sense of RANDOM-ness. My thing now is organization, simplicity, and ease. So what should … Continue reading
Tour of bookshelves
I had a busy weekend. There was: — grocery shopping — a three-hour phone call with cousin Mike about my script — hours and hours of writing – I probably wrote for 8 hours, all told, over the weekend — … Continue reading
Neil Gaiman’s Bookshelves
I’m not kidding when I say I felt light-headed with a mixture of anxiety and envy when I saw these photos of Neil Gaiman’s bookshelves. It hurts. I love my new bookshelves, love love love, and I am still not … Continue reading Continue reading
Snapshots From My Barn-Raising
Other good moments from the barn-raising, all having to do with the unloading of my book collection: — David said, at one point, “Is this a really vulnerable moment for you? Everyone seeing all of your books?” It WAS. I … Continue reading