Book piles
One 'issue' with shuffling, moving, importing and just generally handling well over 8000 all around the house this year(quite apart from the 3000+ that have needed pricing and putting in the shop), is the -
'ooh - I must read/reread that' pile, which has now offended both dogs and at least 3 of the cats by toppling over on them.....
As a card-carrying butterfly-brained Gemini, I can virtually never read a book from cover to cover, and almost always have about 15 on the go, and right now several half-finisheds have gone missing - one suspects at the bottom of one of the 90 or so 'books to store till we find/buy/build shelf space' boxes.
I did manage John McCabe's excellent 'The Comedy of Stan Laurel' in one sitting donated by Mother. I had forgotten the source of this book and tried to give it to her as a shop import/present, just to reduce our pile a bit. She was having none of it.....
The ones I had to take off Cass's head just now include :
David Crystal Linguistics (pelican p/b) - an excellent summary of the establishment of a new science.
Ernst Doblhofer Voices in Stone (paladin p/b) - well loved and about half-read
Colin Tudge The Secret Life of Trees (pelican p/b) - which I did not know we had
RJ Stewart The Hidden Adept & the Inward Vision (defiantly self published) - being the story of Ronald Heaver & others and the Sanctuary of Avalon
Kate Dunn Exit through the Fireplace (john murray p/b) - an irreverent look at Repertory Theatre
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (vol 1) - a very early h/b with a delightful front cover pasted illustration
Clive Holland Old & New Japan, now more than 100 years old and 50 illustrations - a fascinating and early look at what was then still an alien culture
And it goes on, as I try to shoehorn another several hundred books into boxes - books which have just 'ended up' in the living room with no shelf space for the moment......
Living with TWO authors and being a bibliophile can be 'interesting.....
'ooh - I must read/reread that' pile, which has now offended both dogs and at least 3 of the cats by toppling over on them.....
As a card-carrying butterfly-brained Gemini, I can virtually never read a book from cover to cover, and almost always have about 15 on the go, and right now several half-finisheds have gone missing - one suspects at the bottom of one of the 90 or so 'books to store till we find/buy/build shelf space' boxes.
I did manage John McCabe's excellent 'The Comedy of Stan Laurel' in one sitting donated by Mother. I had forgotten the source of this book and tried to give it to her as a shop import/present, just to reduce our pile a bit. She was having none of it.....
The ones I had to take off Cass's head just now include :
David Crystal Linguistics (pelican p/b) - an excellent summary of the establishment of a new science.
Ernst Doblhofer Voices in Stone (paladin p/b) - well loved and about half-read
Colin Tudge The Secret Life of Trees (pelican p/b) - which I did not know we had
RJ Stewart The Hidden Adept & the Inward Vision (defiantly self published) - being the story of Ronald Heaver & others and the Sanctuary of Avalon
Kate Dunn Exit through the Fireplace (john murray p/b) - an irreverent look at Repertory Theatre
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (vol 1) - a very early h/b with a delightful front cover pasted illustration
Clive Holland Old & New Japan, now more than 100 years old and 50 illustrations - a fascinating and early look at what was then still an alien culture
And it goes on, as I try to shoehorn another several hundred books into boxes - books which have just 'ended up' in the living room with no shelf space for the moment......
Living with TWO authors and being a bibliophile can be 'interesting.....