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labellementeuseThis is what I did with my extra fortyfive minutes this morning: unpacked all my books onto the bookshelf in the laundry. (The drier is in the garage, don't panic!)
That's about 170 books in my collection (okay, I stole some of them off my mother, but I know she won't miss them.) I estimate at least another 2-300 still at home. Of the ones here, I haven't read about twenty of them; about the same number is non-fiction (okay, maybe a little less. But The Science of Discworld COMPLETELY counts as non-fiction, right?); about the same number is poetry. Of the remaining 100, probably 60 are fantasy or YA fantasy and the rest is fiction or YA fiction. Man, going through these and unpacking them from the boxes sent me into complete joy spasms; I forgot I bought my Frances Hodgkins Burnett anthology, for example (Secret Garden, Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy; the big pink book centre right on the third shelf up).
Astute readers will notice that they're, um, not terribly sorted. Maybe I'll do that this afternoon- poetry, fantasy, fiction, non-fiction. By author alphabetical or subject alphabetical for the non-fiction, because I am not quite dorky enough to implement the Dewey system at home. (Not that it would make much of a difference:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sixth_light mocks me for my nonfiction "selection," which I can only respond to by mocking her fiction selection, because at least I own non-fiction. Anyway, not even she sorts her nonfiction by Dewey. I think.)
TO THE BOOKSHELVES.
ETA: DILEMMA: where do I put my Blackadder scriptbook? :O so much confusion!
ETA2.1: The Screwtape Letters: fact (theology and/or satire), fiction (not actually real letters :p) or fantasy (apprentice devils!)? discuss.
ETA 2.2: The Little Prince/le petit prince: fiction or fantasy? fact (social commentary)?
ETA 3: done and dusted (literally), and may I say, if I never have to decide again whether Tom's Midnight Garden is fantasy or fiction my life will be a lot less complicated. (I picked fiction, in the end.)
Interesting things discovered:
-I have two copies of Anne French's Wild, a poetry collection, and Tessa Duder's Songs for Alex. If you would like a copy, drop me a comment (The closer you live, the more likely you are to get it. :P)
-I have both English and French copies of The Little Prince/Le Petit Prince. I think I stole the French from my school.
-Somehow when packing up my Tessa Duders, I managed to pack only books 1 and 2 of the Tiggie trilogy. *TWITCH* I know exactly where the third is at home, too.
-I am missing the first four Narnia books. *doubletwitch* I know my LWW has long since fallen apart but I know I have the others at home somewhere. Grr.
-I bought Abhorsen a month ago and I've already misplaced it.
Well. I'm going home for the holidays in a week and a half, so I know I can replace some of these. But still. *twitchy* I may start developing a tick.
ETA 1001: now meme-ified! If you recognise a bookcover from my shelves, I will write you a drabble or short fic (in a requested fandom. If I had guts, it would be in the fandom of the book guessed, but I'm worried about some of the selections. :D)
That's about 170 books in my collection (okay, I stole some of them off my mother, but I know she won't miss them.) I estimate at least another 2-300 still at home. Of the ones here, I haven't read about twenty of them; about the same number is non-fiction (okay, maybe a little less. But The Science of Discworld COMPLETELY counts as non-fiction, right?); about the same number is poetry. Of the remaining 100, probably 60 are fantasy or YA fantasy and the rest is fiction or YA fiction. Man, going through these and unpacking them from the boxes sent me into complete joy spasms; I forgot I bought my Frances Hodgkins Burnett anthology, for example (Secret Garden, Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy; the big pink book centre right on the third shelf up).
Astute readers will notice that they're, um, not terribly sorted. Maybe I'll do that this afternoon- poetry, fantasy, fiction, non-fiction. By author alphabetical or subject alphabetical for the non-fiction, because I am not quite dorky enough to implement the Dewey system at home. (Not that it would make much of a difference:
sixth_light mocks me for my nonfiction "selection," which I can only respond to by mocking her fiction selection, because at least I own non-fiction. Anyway, not even she sorts her nonfiction by Dewey. I think.)TO THE BOOKSHELVES.
ETA: DILEMMA: where do I put my Blackadder scriptbook? :O so much confusion!
ETA2.1: The Screwtape Letters: fact (theology and/or satire), fiction (not actually real letters :p) or fantasy (apprentice devils!)? discuss.
ETA 2.2: The Little Prince/le petit prince: fiction or fantasy? fact (social commentary)?
ETA 3: done and dusted (literally), and may I say, if I never have to decide again whether Tom's Midnight Garden is fantasy or fiction my life will be a lot less complicated. (I picked fiction, in the end.)
Interesting things discovered:
-I have two copies of Anne French's Wild, a poetry collection, and Tessa Duder's Songs for Alex. If you would like a copy, drop me a comment (The closer you live, the more likely you are to get it. :P)
-I have both English and French copies of The Little Prince/Le Petit Prince. I think I stole the French from my school.
-Somehow when packing up my Tessa Duders, I managed to pack only books 1 and 2 of the Tiggie trilogy. *TWITCH* I know exactly where the third is at home, too.
-I am missing the first four Narnia books. *doubletwitch* I know my LWW has long since fallen apart but I know I have the others at home somewhere. Grr.
-I bought Abhorsen a month ago and I've already misplaced it.
Well. I'm going home for the holidays in a week and a half, so I know I can replace some of these. But still. *twitchy* I may start developing a tick.
ETA 1001: now meme-ified! If you recognise a bookcover from my shelves, I will write you a drabble or short fic (in a requested fandom. If I had guts, it would be in the fandom of the book guessed, but I'm worried about some of the selections. :D)
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Date: 2006-03-28 10:05 am (UTC)That's such a good book... Mahy is my goddess/rolemodel.
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Date: 2006-03-28 03:42 pm (UTC)I know. I've only read a few of her books (The Tricksters, the Changeover, and The Other Side of Silence were the only ones in my local library) but I liked them very much.
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Date: 2006-03-30 11:18 am (UTC)She's virtually worshipped here, and rightly so; she's just wonderful :) I always have a sense of awe that books that are to me intimately New Zealand extend well enough to other cultures to be comprehensible...
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Date: 2006-04-04 11:31 am (UTC)"Nita? Have you seen a mouldy slice of bread anywhere?"
"Have I what?"
Dairine Callahan thumped down the stairs and poked her head into the dining room, where Nita sat poring over The Outsiders.
"I said, have you seen a slice of mouldy bread? I was saving it. And didn't you already read that?"
"Some of us actually need to do our homework to pass, twerp. And no, I haven't." Nita glanced up and tilted her eyebrows. "Any reason why you were saving it? Or just a sudden craving?"
"Shut up. I need it for a zoomantic binding I'm wanting to try."
"Didn't the Materia Magica just have an article on how used lightbulbs worked just as well? And smell less?"
"Yeah, but we don't have any used lightbulbs. And I wanted to try a penicillin culture for the science fair this year..."
"Daddy might have something to say about the relative hygiene."
"So maybe I'll set up a lab in the basement. Or, heh, the Moon."
"Sure." Nita returned her attention to the book and Dairine headed into the kitchen to dig up a breadcrust or three. Nita's voice followed her through the doorway: "Just try not to let it breed with whatever else you've got up there, okay? It might turn into something virulent and lethal..."
Dairine tugged a slice from the back of the breadbox and examined it for fungus. She grinned at the grey, disgusting film on the back and tucked it into a Ziplock bag. "No new superbacteria, check," she said as she went back through the dining room and up the stairs. "How do you feel about bacteriodigital organisms? I'm thinking silicon/carbon basing could be a winning combination.."
Nita made a horrified sound from her place at the table. "Absolutely not! I'll tell on you to Tom and Carl! Inappropriate mutations..."
"You ruin all my fun."
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Disclaimer: no actual science here!!
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Date: 2006-04-04 03:02 pm (UTC)Nice one on the Outsiders. :-)