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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Dec 9, 2003 0:42:19 GMT -5
It's one thing to have books you recommend or books that you like to talk about, books that've changed your life or at least your perspective (hmm, that'd be a good thread too) but the bookshelf ends up with stories you liked well enough to buy, books that you bought but never read, books that your siblings left behind when you moved out, books that you read once every two months and think of often, books that you didn't want but that were given by a kindly relative so you smiled blandly and put them away, books of poetry, children's books, science and history books that you only use for reference, books you got for free at bible camp, books you noticed in the lost and found box for three years in a row and eventually adopted. What a beautiful melding of bookly cultures to be found in one place. Do you alphabetize? Organize by height? Put the ones you'd rather your parents don't see on the bottom shelf where they aren't likely to look and ones that they would approve of on top? I have to know! Since it's getting late and I'm at least 15 minutes late for school every day as it is, I'll list the top shelf and get to others later. On the desk: Serpentine by Thomas Thompson and The City Who Fought by Anne McCaffrey and S. M. Stirling (held hostage until hostile hospital again honors my house by being here) The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (bought by middle sister) Chem text book Student Study Bible (given to middle sister by parents, inherited to me due to relative lack of interest in her) The Thief Lord
Bookshelf, from Left to Right: On Top: Top: Birds of North America (given to middle sister by Grandmother, left to me) Poetry of Emily Dickenson "Road Not Taken" Poems of Robert Frost Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Parfati A book of Norse mythology The Language Police by Daine Kavitch (or maybe Ravitch, I'll edit if I'm wrong) The Veritas Project 1 +2 by Frank Peretti While Mortals Sleep by Jack Cavanaugh The Puritans, Colonists, Patriots, Adversaries, Pioneers, Allies, Victors, and Peacemakers in "An American Family Portrait" a great series of Christian historical fiction by Jack Cavanaugh which follows a family from 1630 to 1968.
On Top of the Shelf (looks like I don't want to go to bed): #69 of The Baby Sitters Club Just as Long as We're Together by Judy Blume Weeken by Christopher Pike Hand Around Lincoln School by Frank Asch The Computer that Ate My Brother by Dean Marney (I've never read any of these, in fact, I have no idea where they came from) Her Name: Titanic by Charles Pellegrino The Last 200 Pages of a Complete Works of Shakespeare, given to my sister and left behind by her (the first half I gave to a beatnik-ish shakespeare fan friend of mine, I didn't destroy it to do so though. I just didn't hsppen to know where the last half was) A Very Pretty and Heavy Complete works of Shakespeare, also given to my sister since her old copy had gotten so ragged, and left behind.
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Post by pennyroyal on Dec 9, 2003 13:33:57 GMT -5
right now... nothing. all my books are packed, except for these:
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren Holes by Louis Sachar Big Trouble by Dave Barry (just finished this one)
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Post by ponygirl's vapor on Dec 9, 2003 22:10:00 GMT -5
Up on the top shelf the Left Behind Series. Middle Shelf: LOTR, Silmarlion, Lord Brocktree, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, Artemis Fowl Series, The Hobbit, Holes. Bottom Shelf: Harry Potter Series and ASOUE.
I have some more books in our library... I think mostly those are classics, Chronicles of Narnia, some other CS Lewis, and some other Christian related ones...
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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Dec 9, 2003 22:34:47 GMT -5
*bangs her head on the table* I had this ALL typed up earlier, and then my computer spazzed out before I could submit... *mumbles "One of these days, I'll commit electroni-cide and not feel one bit of remorse..."* Ahem, but I'll do it later...yay.
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Post by Shaffuru! on Dec 10, 2003 8:20:28 GMT -5
Top shelf: A few dictionaries, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, books that I got in 2001 and haven't read yet (Dragon's Gate, Heaven Eyes, The Wanderer, The Eye the Ear and the Arm, and others with titles that are even more boring than those)
Middle shelf: Harry Potter, ASoUE, Artimis Fowl, The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson and a few other good books (like Stargirl, Lord of the Flies, THGttG and The Thief Lord)
Bottom shelf: A few Stephen King books*, Lord of the Rings, a boxed set of Whodunnit books, nerdy books (How to Get Straight A's in School and Have Fun at the Same Time, A Student Planner and a few agendas that have never been used) and a whole bunch of self-help books (Hugs for Teens, Chicken Soup for the Soul, blah blah blah)
What a sad bookshelf. I need more and better books.
*The Stephen King books are on the crap shelf because they wouldn't fit on the good shelf. Incase you were wondering.
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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Dec 10, 2003 11:03:35 GMT -5
OK... Well, first off, I usually organize my bookshelf by height, but I've been known to get insanely bored and rearrange them alphabetically according to author, title, or on rare occasions, publisher. Yes, I am a total dork. Most of my books are books I got years ago and loved too much to get rid of...
Top Shelf: There's not much on the top shelf, just CDs, photographs, random objects, some folders of various things and this book I got on astronomy for my birthday one year and have never actually read. Edit-Oh, yeah, I have my dictionary and thesaurus and past journals there too.
Second Shelf: The Little Friend-Donna Tartt Spider's Web-Agatha Christie LOTR-All three books in one big hardcover...I was an idiot to buy it, but dagnabbit, it was so beautiful...forget the fact that it weighs about as much as me... HP 1-5 A "Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie" Lords and Ladies-Terry Pratchett The Grasshopper Trap- Patrick F. McManus (Adopted) Princess in Love-Meg Cabot (Yes, I am ashamed to admit, I do read the Princess Diaries books...but they're funny...) Trophies and Dead Things-Marcia Muller (Got this from my aunt, who has no taste whatsoever because she didn't like it. Meh.) The Tough Guide to Fantasyland-Diana Wynne Jones (Got this at a flea market that my parents made me go to...found a card for one of those role playing games in the Q section...whee) Bed-Knob and Broomstick-Mary Norton (I used to love that when I was little-Gift from my Grandmother) My Eva Ibbotson Collection (Which Witch, The Secret of Platform 13, Island of the Aunts-Childhood Classics...whee)
Shelf #3: ASOUE books Angela and Diabola-Lynne Reid Banks (I hated her other books, but this one's great) My Madaline L'Engle Books (AWIT, AWITD, ASTP...hee) The Sunken City-? Various Authors, I think... Witch Week-Diana Wynne Jones The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe-C.S. Lewis
Then there's a nice row of books I got from my aunt and never particularly loved...2 Sammy Keyes, Holes, Snail Mail No More-Notaclue, Two-Minute Mysteries-Various
Briar Rose-Jane Yolen The Witches-Roald Dahl Count Karlstein-Phillip Pullman
Fourth Shelf: Deep Secret-Diana Wynne Jones The Cockatrice Boys-Joan Aiken A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales-Various Louise Rennison's- AT&FFS, OTBS,ITGOASG...hee Harriet the Spy-Louise Fitzhugh (Shaped my childhood a lot. yeah.) Year of the Griffin-Diana Wynne Jones The Black Cauldren-Lloyd Alexander Teen Angst? Nah...-Ned Vizzini Snow-Tracy Lynn (Bought it and read it once. It's pretty good...I like retold fairytales) Tiles and Tribulations-Tamar Myers Dialouge With a Skeptic-Thomas Howard (Adopted) The Westing Game-Ellen Raskin The Wessex Papers-1-3- Daniel Parker Deathwatch-Ray Harrison (Adopted) Death and Faxes-Leslie O'Kane And then the Agatha Christies: A Murder is Announced The Body in the Library The Mousetrap and Other Plays (My very favorite of them all.) Murder at Hazelmoor (I just found this one in an old box...haven't read it yet..) And Then There Were None Double Sin and Other Stories
And then there's the books that I know should be on my shelf, but aren't, such as: Watch Your Mouth-DH The Gospel According to Larry-Janet Tishjian Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass-Lewis Carroll That Book of 55-Word Stories-Compiled by Steven Moss Hocus Pocus-Kurt Vogenaunt (I spelled that wrong...and I can't find it to read it either..grr...) Wow. I highly doubt anyone wants to read that...but it was fun..whee
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Luigi
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Post by Luigi on Dec 10, 2003 19:17:37 GMT -5
I just cleaned my bookshelf, but if you were ot look before, you would have found a wide variety of books; Stephen Kings, books about dogs, myths, and tons more. Now, you will only find my favorite series: HDM, ASOUE, HP and some notebooks. Oh yes, and the School/Work/Love is Hell series and 3 onion archive books. Also, the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe and Grimms Fairy Tales. The old books went downstairs into the library. I--well, my brother--my eldest brother has this library, and since he's away at college I can use it. He's got Tom Clancy novels, books about conspiracies, there are hundreds. Can't name 'em all...there's so many books, it's a fire hazard. Grimms. Poe. Library. Fire.
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Post by ponygirl's vapor on Dec 11, 2003 21:17:36 GMT -5
I went through my closet today and found some books which I added to my bookshelf: All my Michael Crichton books Westing Game The Prometheus Deception- Robert Ludlum (Haven't read this yet) A few John J. Nance books Sum of All Fears- Tom Clancy Clear and Present Danger- Tom Clancy some books about american wars Count of Monte Cristo The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown (Haven't read this yet either) Call of the Wild- Jack London Revelation Unveiled- Tim LaHaye Life of Pi- Yann Martel (hee, feel sorry for my parents buying me this books I haven't even read yet) A Short History of Nearly Everything- Bill Bryson (what we should be reading in school) Becoming a Contagious Christian- Bill Hybels, Mark Mittelberg
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Post by Addieor on Dec 27, 2003 1:58:53 GMT -5
Yeah! I'm am currently residing an acquaintance's house, so I shall try to remember what books. Meh. I organized them in ABC order by author's las name. I am too neat and tidy for my own good. Well, here:
all 5 Harry Potter books on different bookcase, as I feel very fond of them, plus they wouldn't fit with the others.
And....: Just As Long As We Are Together- Blume Here's to you, Rachel Robinson-Blume Double Fudge-Blume Super Fudge-Blume Tales....-Blume Date with Death-Charmed series Power of three-Charmed Series Ella Enchanted(I took this one and The Wish with me, because I can't bear to part with them) -Levine The Wish-Levine The Fairy's Mistake-Levine 101 ways to bug your parents-Wardlaw Mad Libs Dictionary of Word Origins(I couldn't help myself, I took this one with me too) Todd Strauss books P.S. Longer Later Later-Danziger&Martin Snail Mail No More-Danziger & Martin Quidditch through the ages The Slippery Slope(I bpught it today) TBB:RE(I got this one today, too!) Chicken Soup books The year of Miss Agnes Spelling Books English to Spanish and Spanish to English Dictionary EDIT: Here's more! James and the Giant Peach-Dahl Matilda-Dahl The Santa Contest-Linda Ford The Santa Solution-Linda Ford The Kid who ran for president-Dan Gutman A Year Down Yonder-? Forgot Archie Comics Babysitters Club Books Beware of Kissing Lizard Lips-Forgot? Jo's Story-Pfeffer Little Women Anne of Green Gables Peter Pan Jane Eyre The Wright Brothers Ten Cent Island Treasure Island
and more. Can't think. Too sleepy. UH-OH! In trouble. Must abandon. Good bye and H H and M C to all. EDIT: I'm back!
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Post by Kobolos on Jan 8, 2004 10:58:53 GMT -5
Books that are actually not boxed up, containing both mine and Mrs. Kobolos' books. I'll let you figure out who reads what Top Shelf Fiction and recently readAnita Blake series Laurell K. Hamilton Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman American Gods by Neil Gaiman Tales of the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee Merrick Anne Rice Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix JK Rowling Wolves of the Calla Stephen King Second Shelf Dracula Unbound Brian Aldiss Dracula's Brood (anthology) Vampire Sextet (anthology) The Vampire: His Kith and Kin and Vampire in Europe by Rev. Montague Summers Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Bulfinch's Mythology Vampire and Witches Companions by Katherine Ramsland (encyclopedias for Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice) Unexplained Solitary WItch by Silver Ravenwolf Celtic Myths and Legends by Charles Squire The Crow (book on the movie) Third shelfAbuse your Illusions, Everything you know is wrong, and You are being lied to (Edited by Russ Kick) Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits and Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft by Rosemary Guilley Tales of Witchery (accounts from the Salem Trials) Holy Bible (KJV) Strange Stories and Amazing Facts Portrait of a Killer Patricia Cromwell (Jack the Ripper study) The Crimes, Detection, and Death of Jack the Ripper Neverwhere Neil Gaiman Supernatural WOnders from around the world Ghostly American Places Monsters: An Investigation Guide to Magical Beings by Greer Tobin's Spirit Guide (Just Kidding) Faeries and Good Faeries/Bad Faeries by Brian Froud Bottom Shelf The Atlas of Middle-Earth Visual Companions of Fellowship of the RIng and Two Towers Lady Cottingley's Book of Pressed Faeries Renoir (2 books of his life and paintings) Buckland's Complete book of WItchcraft Buckland's Wicca for Life Complete Book of Incense, Oils, and Brews Cunningham Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (also by Scott Cunningham) Witchcrafting Phyllis Curott Angels and Visitations Neil Gaiman Sandman Series Neil Gaiman Watchmen by Alan Moore Origin by Paul Jenkins (about Wolverine) On the desk French Dictionary English Dictionary Thesaurus Fodor's Pocket Paris Snicket Books and autobiography That's it.
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Post by Kobolos on Jan 8, 2004 18:22:55 GMT -5
I want the good/bad fairy book but I don't have an extra forty dollars to spend. Is the Jack the Ripper (the study) book any good? I bought it for someone for Christmas, and it looked interesting. And Klaus, read the Da Vinci Code and tell me what that is about. It's a fiction book, right? Yet the guy used real research for the storyline or what? I was on the religion board at TCC a while back and someone was using that book as an argument. I looked the book up, and it said fiction.. and I asked her why she was using a book that claims to be fictional as a resource, and I asked her to explain the book. However, she never answered me and then TCC was remodeled or whatever-- so I lost interest. Swans: Join the Science Fiction Bookclub. I got it with with 4 other books for $1 *G* the ripper book is....how did Batman refer to Chase Meridian's book? "Insightful...Naive, but insightful...."
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Post by Fire on Jan 9, 2004 6:16:24 GMT -5
I don't own many books I have:
Captain Underpants: 1-5 and activity book
Harry Potter: 1-5
ASoUE: TVV and TSS
and a bunch of random books: Clue books, Garfield, Tons of pokemon, Rugrats(UGH), Cardcaptors, PPG and SpongeBob SquarePants; jokebook, survival guide and trivia
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Post by Celinra on Feb 3, 2004 21:05:26 GMT -5
I won't be able to name my books in a neat order, since right now, they're all in a mess. However, here's what there is: Left Behind series (all the books, in both the adult and children's series) Japanese-English Dictionary French-English Dictionary Complete works of Shakespeare Les Misérable (one copy in English, one in French, which I can't read, I just bought it to be able to say, "Look, I have Les Miz in French!") ASOUE, books 1 (rare edition) and 10. Lord of the Rings, the 1-volume edition (which I managed to get for 50 cents at the library book sale) A few Bibles (an NIV student Bible, which is falling apart, my new Hebrew-Greek Keyword Bible (also NIV, and no, it's not all in Hebrew and Greek, it just has a dictionary in the back so you can see what word is used where, other places it's used, etc.), a New Testament I got free at camp, which is some crazy translation I don't like, plus there are probably a few of those little New Testaments that people always give out floating around) Various notebooks containing either various works of mine, or blank paper A couple Garfield books School books: A Doll's House, On The Nature of the Universe, The Sun Also Rises, Oedipus, and Lazarillo des Tormes (which was my favorite of all of those), not to mention various textbooks I don't feel like naming A few logic puzzle books I think Screwtape Letters may have made its way into my room Also, there are then all my graphic novels: Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, Kodocha, Excel Saga, Fushigi Yugi, and Vampire Game are the main ones.
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Post by Kobolos on Feb 4, 2004 1:39:02 GMT -5
Vampire Game are the main ones. Vampire: The Masquerade?
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Post by ElizabethElfleda on Feb 29, 2004 17:52:46 GMT -5
I have approx. 900 books. Including every Agatha Christie, the collected works of Saki (funny, but old fashioned) , the Koran, 4 versions of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, several books on Buddisim and Wicca.. All the Beatrix Potter books, vast collection of fairy tales (The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye is the best) My Uncle Oswald and others by Dahl, Jane Eyre, Villette, Les Miserables, Sibley's Birds of North America, 20+ titles on plants, most of Stephen King's books, Rosemary's Baby, Ghost Story, collected poems of Walt Whitman, Walden, When the Legends Die, The Yellow Wallpaper, case studies by Freud, books on pschyoanalasis, The Eddie Dickons Trilogy, Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes collections, most of The Far Side collections, The Last of the Breed by Loius L'Amour, all of Jack London's works, Mariel of Redwall, The Light in the Forest, The Tales of Uncle Remus.... I can't wait to go home and see my books again!
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