so even though i LIKED the candid photo meme

[angevin2]

Since I apparently enjoy the opportunity to look creepy and pallid on lj and all, I rather liked this alternative that the_red_shoes started and lareinenoire picked up, in which we all post pictures of our bookcases. Because I love pictures of books, even though these are not really very brilliant photos and you mostly can't read the titles.

Comments

[stagbeetle]

Boooooooooooooooooooooks. Lovely. On Shakespeare editions: have you a favourite complete works? I need one, and am dithering. And I can see you've got several. ;)

Also: Wilton Diptych and Richard II posters! Yay!

[angevin2]

Well, the one piece of advice I would absolutely insist upon is not to buy the Arden complete works: it sucks. It has no footnotes, and what is the point of having an Arden Shakespeare if it doesn't have the footnotes

[quietprofanity]

though thankfully it at least retains Falstaff's proper name, unlike the Oxford, which "restores" the name Oldcastle, a decision I HATE)

Ewww. :(

[angevin2]

I KNOW
IT FILLS ME WITH NERDLY RAGE

[quietprofanity]

Yeah, I mean ... I get the mentality behind it, but, like, you don't just CHANGE something that's permeated the cultural consciousness like that. It's just ... wrong.

(Also, can I add you to my friendslist?)

[angevin2]

Feel free! I enjoy making new friends. :)

[quietprofanity]

Awesome! I love all your Shakespeare stuff ... what I understand, anyway. [adds!]

[angevin2]

Do you want to be on the dissertation filter and/or the academic job market filter? I haven't posted to either in a while, but pretty soon they will be very busy.

[quietprofanity]

Well, dissertation sounds interesting. What's the job market one like? Is it more commentary or is it just, "Hey, do you guys want to do this?" (I'm one of those weird people who went for a B.A. in Communications (no grad school and no plans for grad school) but occasionally took literature classes for fun. OK, I only took "Chaucer" but I would have taken more if I had the credits.)

[angevin2]

It's mostly me freaking out about how few postings there are and how nobody's going to want to hire me. And keeping track of letters I send out/receive.

I'll add you to the diss one, though.

[quietprofanity]

Oh, yeah. I don't mind that. I think everyone can sympathize with job-freakouts. :)

[angevin2]

Have added you to both.

I also post my rejection letters to the job filter, so it ends up offering a useful tutorial in academic bullshitting.

[tekalynn]

It works for one pun.

One.

Meanwhile, everyone's scratching their heads wondering where this "Falstaff" fellow went that they've been hearing so much about.

[angevin2]

And the pun is only slightly funny at all because the character's name isn't Oldcastle anymore.

[tempestsarekind]

Yay Riverside! Perversely, I like teaching from it because it forces the students to use other ways of telling prose from verse than the length of the lines on the page. This is how I discovered that perhaps a third of my Shakespeare students last year *couldn't* tell prose from verse on their own.

Also, I now feel better about the fact that my books are double-stacked on all my bookcases. (Sadly, I don't have room for more bookcases. Or books, technically. That never seems to stop me...)

[angevin2]

I am weirdly ambivalent about double-stacking books. On the one hand, if they aren't, I feel like a poseur who doesn't have as many books as she could have. On the other, if they are, it's hard to get to the ones in the back!