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One of my friends, in preparation for picking a book for the restarted book club I’m in, made a list of books she had/wanted to read. And it inspired me to do something similar. So last week, I spent two days logging all my books. By title, author, and genre. I didn’t even know how many books I had but I was interested to know the final count when I was done. There is one shelf I cannot reach to count, but I have around 270 books right now that have all been catalogued. Not a bad start to my own little library.
I was trying to rearrange some books this morning and finally put these together again.
Taking Chances by Molly Mcadams
Search it on my blog, I have a few rants on there. It’s terrible
Great Gatsby or the Sphinx.
Worst book I never finished: Joseph Andrews.
It was so bad I don’t think I got past the first 5 pages.
kellynewbook asked:
I have such a hard time choosing between my Kindle, my hardbacks and my paperbacks. I'm s notorious cleaner. My house is usually spot on and I'm all about the art of discarding. But I refuse to throw away books. But there are some that I probably should get rid of. How do you sort through and manage all of your books? I'm running out of space in my tiny apartment :/ thanks for any advice on it.
dukeofbookingham answered:
Book triage is one of the hardest things in the world, but sometimes it has to be done. Here are the things I would get rid of:
- Books you’re never going to read again. If you honestly know you’re never going to read it again—even if you kind of liked it—let it go to a new home and make space for something you will read a hundred times.
- Books you got bored with or didn’t like. If you have books that you didn’t enjoy, were poorly written, or didn’t hold your attention, toss ‘em. Life is too short to make room for books you don’t like. There are a million books in the world you might love which are more deserving of a place on your self. (Although, if a book provoked any sort of strong feeling in you, even if it was negative, that might be one you should hold onto. Anything that didn’t allow for a passive reading experience. I don’t know if that makes any sense.)
- Dime-a-dozen paperbacks. Do you really need a mass-market copy of The Da Vinci Code? No. You can find that shit anywhere. Toss it.
- Things that are so battered you can’t tell what they are. If it’s missing pages or covers or you spilled coffee on it so the whole thing has expanded like an accordion file, let it go. Do yourself a favor and get a new copy if you really want to have it in your library.
- Stuff you loved ten years ago. For instance, I really enjoyed A Series of Unfortunate Events when I was like, ten. They’re great books but they take up a huge amount of room and I doubt I’m ever actually going to read them again. I’d rather some ten-year-old kid have my set then let them continue to take up space.
This is a hard process but it’s part of the book-lover circle of life. Best of luck.
It’s okay to lose yourself for a little while. In books, in music, in art. Let yourself get lost.
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It’s okay to lose yourself for a little while. In books, in music, in art. Let yourself get lost.
Unknown (via hplyrikz)
Book Discussion
So pretty standard question this time of the year, but I want to know: What was your favorite book of 2017? I think mine was Strange the Dreamer.
I’ve been reading a lot of classic novels so I’d say Fahrenheit 451 or even Wuthering Heights!!
I would say the Foxhole court, it took me like… three monts to read because it made me emotional but? It was amazing
That’s so great!! That book has been on my radar for a while, but it’s a New Adult book, so it might take me a while to get around to it, as I generally don’t really like books of that genre. But maybe this one will finally change my mind.
Oh gosh, it’s so hard to choose…can I pick two?
Since I read it last week, I’m leaning toward saying Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu, but before that it was consistently Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.
My honorable mention pick is definitely Hunger by Roxane Gay though, so at least I can make a decision about something. 😂
@tricksterkidwrites Yo Fahrenheit 451 was my jam back in high school!
I know this is a pretty lame/cliche answer, but Moby-Dick was my favorite. I liked it a lot the first time I read it, but reading it a second time, I fell completely in love. It’s got a completely canon gay couple, a poetic villain who’s batshit insane, and a majestic af nature god as the title character. If that sounds awesome, that’s because it IS awesome.
A close runner up would be The Arrival by Shaun Tan. it’s a picture book that doesn’t have a single word of prose or dialogue, but it tells such a fantastic story. And the illustrations are jaw-droppingly beautiful.
I would say They both die in the end by Adam Silvera because it absolutely destroyed me and I was left in tears.
Im also trying to finish reading Fahrenheit 451 before 2018 and I’m loving the book so far.
Oh, yeah, I do want to read that book as well. It’s probably going to make me cry.
Still haven’t read Fahrenheit 451, but maybe one day, I will actually do it.
Northanger Abbey!
It had adventure and romance and friendship (both good and bad)… plus imagination I wasn’t expecting and the classic Jane Austen wit. It was written early on it Austen’s career (though published after her death) so it has this lightness that isn’t present in her other novels that was really refreshing.
Send help before I spend $100 in a used bookstore.
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we’ll talk.’ All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don’t want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.
Ray Bradbury (b. 22 August 1920)
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
Virginia Woolf (via michaelmoonsbookshop)