tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543330341390707771.post5299556242786775701..comments2023-11-23T09:51:07.448-05:00Comments on A Literary Odyssey: Weekly Wrap-up for August 15, 2010: New Bookshelves and Organization!Alliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18420476898132383974noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543330341390707771.post-27564332098737968652010-08-18T22:03:42.151-04:002010-08-18T22:03:42.151-04:00First of all, your husband is a sweetie pie! Next...First of all, your husband is a sweetie pie! Next, I hope you like Bleak House, which is one of my favorites. The first couple of chapters are a bit slow, but stick with it, it is so worth it!<br /><br />Finally, bookshelves -- I have a bookcase in the kitchen (is that weird?) which has cookbooks, food essays, food memoirs, and some travel books. I have another bookcase which has all my Harry Potters and children's fantasy, children's classics, then some other classics, mostly Dickens and Austen and related books. Then I have one bookshelf with books I've read and another with books I haven't. Plus lots of books in boxes in the garage, waiting patiently for built in bookshelves. I can dream, can't I?Karenlibrarianhttp://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543330341390707771.post-30343931531742994652010-08-16T09:10:55.453-04:002010-08-16T09:10:55.453-04:00I organize my books by author and then in sequence...I organize my books by author and then in sequence to either when they were written or if it is a series by series. I have a TBR shelf and then after they are read they go to the shelf with their author. I have shelves in my family room, library and bedrooms. I love displaying mine on bookshelves and have to admit that I am now filling up the bookcases in the bedrooms of my children who have moved on out of the house :). It gives me so much more room to grow!. (Thank you CaRiiToO) Love, MomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543330341390707771.post-7422508151095697992010-08-16T08:05:34.855-04:002010-08-16T08:05:34.855-04:00I remember being so happy to move out of my tiny l...I remember being so happy to move out of my tiny little apartment where I could only store about 100 books into a house where I could bring out all of my books! I was so ecstatic! We turned one whole room into a library, with bookshelves around two walls (the other two walls have a big window and closet, so no shelf space) and then four bookcases down the center of the room so it really does look like a library. And yet I still have books spilling into other rooms. As for organization, I keep my children's and some young adult books upstairs, separate from the library. I have some young adult series in the library (like Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia), then everything is divided into non-fiction and fiction. The non-fiction takes up two big bookcases and are organized chronlogically since most of them are history books. Then random non-fiction are organized at the end. My fiction books are organized alphabetically right now and are divided into read and TBR books. Once I get my TBR shelves tamed I may reorganize that. We also have a really nice hardbook set of the Great Books that we keep in the living room. And I keep a few favorites on a shelf in my bedroom.Lindsey Sparkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03654365166738983077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543330341390707771.post-52796098925849005842010-08-16T01:22:34.490-04:002010-08-16T01:22:34.490-04:00Your husband sounds like an angel! And your mum to...Your husband sounds like an angel! And your mum too!<br /><br />Some of my books are in my bedroom (like 100), others are on a bookshelf that is at the hall (200) and others are on a bookshelf in the garage (200) with some other books of my mum and brothers (old textbooks). I am desperated to buy a new bookshelf!<br /><br />I loved your post... it would be wonderful if you'd give a video-tour or photo-tour of your bookshelves (even if I get green in envy!).<br /><br />I can't wait for more book.posts and for the next Thursdsay Treat.CaRiiToOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15235918193299700180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543330341390707771.post-57987111683205453342010-08-16T00:04:36.364-04:002010-08-16T00:04:36.364-04:00Your book collection makes me want to start my own...Your book collection makes me want to start my own book collection! It motivates me! :) <br /><br />Aw, Allie that is a wonderful husband you have there, making the sandwiches for his wife!<br /><br />Keep up the great work with your blog!Julietanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543330341390707771.post-54431241239821965932010-08-15T19:25:25.675-04:002010-08-15T19:25:25.675-04:00Having now read the first 7 chapters of Bleak Hous...Having now read the first 7 chapters of Bleak House, I found the first two completely skippable. Just fyi. :D<br /><br />Jason and I have a strange way that we've organized our shelves. We each have different cases for our own books (ie books I don't want to read but he does is on his shelf, and vice versa). Then we have a shared shelf for the "both of us" books. We have short stories, plays, nonfiction, poetry, mythology, and language material all separated out, as well as my Harry Potter collection, and then I have a shelf that's solely devoted to my Just-Me-TBR, and Jason has a shelf solely devoted to a 50-book set mostly consisting of ancient philosophers.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07026099426503180472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543330341390707771.post-7513348592330578352010-08-15T18:26:10.858-04:002010-08-15T18:26:10.858-04:00is there a blogger that doesnt own the Billy bookc...is there a blogger that doesnt own the Billy bookcase ;) We have two ourselves. Funny I was talking about the last of the Mohians today as I have a copy of it somewhere but have never read it.Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08861424110678889637noreply@blogger.com