{"id":5400,"date":"2006-09-29T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2010-07-15T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:02:12","slug":"book-snooping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5400","title":{"rendered":"Book Snooping"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love love love this article about snooping through other people’s bookshelves<\/a>. I so do that – it’s the first thing I notice when I go into a new house – and the books are always what I gravitate towards. Standing, scanning someone else’s books … so so revealing. Sometimes you can tell more about a person from his book collection than from conversation with him. The books reveal what you value.<\/p>\n

From that article:<\/p>\n

What interests me about other people’s books is the nature of their collection. A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An X-ray indeed. It’s kind of a naked experience – you are totally exposed when someone looks over your shelves. Funny – I brought up some random book on one of my many shelves during a conversation with Michael (it was relevant to the conversation, I was backing up one of my claims) – so I said:- “Yeah – so in this book I have called The Third Terrorist<\/i> –” Michael interrupted, “Yeah, I saw that on your shelf.” Hahaha A little snooping was done obviously. If you’re a book person – you will know the pleasure.<\/p>\n

Anyway – great piece.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love love love this article about snooping through other people’s bookshelves. I so do that – it’s the first thing I notice when I go into a new house – and the books are always what I gravitate towards. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21096,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions\/21096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}