Book Loot: November and December 2011 (and a peek at my bookshelf).

I realized after getting books for Christmas that it had been some time since doing a proper book loot post. And since I wanted to show the titles I got for Christmas, I tried to round up some of the other titles I've gotten in the last two months.

And considering I was on a book buying ban (it didn't go well), there are a lot of books in this pile! I also know I missed a couple (mainly some YA titles I grabbed). This pile also doesn't include my Secret Santa gifts, and a few others.

Anyway, enough excuses, on to the loot! :)



The very top item (in the green), is Homer, my Nook Color. The new green cover was a gift from my mom and dad for Christmas! My other cover is white and got dirty right away. I also included Homer in the picture since I went on a Project Gutenberg spree the other night and downloaded a LOT of free classics. I think I have something like 250 books loaded on Homer! I like to switch back and forth between my paper copies and ebooks. I tend to read on Homer at night when I am in bed-the light doesn't bother Matt as much as my bedside lamp.

Let's see...The Shakespeare titles (top left) include (I bought these when Amazon was running a promotion on the Folger's series and before I decided not to buy from Amazon again):

• The Two Noble Kinsmen
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Titus Andronicus
• Timon of Athens
• Pericles
• Cymbeline

You'll also notice all the Puffin classics (in the pastelish colors...okay, and one is black). The five beneath the Shakespeare were gifts from my parents for Christmas (top to bottom):

• Anne of Green Gables
• The Call of the Wild
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• The Secret Garden
• Peter Pan

There are three more Puffin classics standing vertically next to them. I won them in November. Those include (left to right):

• Black Beauty
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Wind in the Willows (I've never read this!)

On the right hand side, you'll see the five new Penguin clothbounds! These were also gifts from my parents for Christmas (from top to bottom):

• Persuasion
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• Hard Times
• Bleak House

Beneath the Penguin clothbounds are a few paperbacks I've picked up:

• Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
• Selected Letters by Jane Austen
• Catharine and Other Writings by Jane Austen (when Iris mentioned this was her complete Juvenelia, I had to grab it).

The book on the very bottom is one I am super excited about-Dickens' Bicentenary 1812-2012. This is a huge edition with pull-outs, details on each of his books, information on the time period, and about his life. It was sponsored by the Charles Dickens Museum in London. I'm going to be going through it in February in honor of his birthday. But it is SWEET. I can't wait to show it to you!

Yeah, that's a lot of book loot! I now own all of the Puffin hardcover classics as well as the Penguin clothbounds. Want to see them in all their glory?

(This picture isn't the best-this bookshelf doesn't get a ton of light, but I did my best):



My Shakespeare is on the top shelf of this one, and there are a few of them on the second shelf. My Sherlock Holmes collection is between those 4 random Shakespeare titles and the Puffin classics (stacked horizontally). Then I have all my pretty clothbounds (I wish that stupid light would have showed them off better). :) You might notice I have an obsession with things being in order. Both of my large bookshelves (this is from the top of one of them) are in alphabetical order. I'm kind of insane about it, otherwise I can't find things.

Yep, I definitely have an obsession with pretty editions.

Anyway, those are the new editions to my library. What have you gotten recently?