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 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:05 pm
At the moment, I only have one small shelf for me to put books on. The rest have to be stored in boxes.
On that shelf I have put anything relevant to writing/my current WIP.
*The real witches' kitchen
*Punctuation
*Classic tales of the supernatural
*From Acorns...
*The novel Writer's toolkit
*How to write science fiction and fantasy
*The white goddess
*How not to write a novel
*The white ladder diaries
*How to write a damn good novel
*The writing and critique group survival guide
*Under my skin
*Myths, legends and monsters
*Pen on fire
*myths and legends
*Plato: selected myths
*The shaman and the magician
*heaven and hell
*The first five pages
*The golden age of myth and legend
*Writing a novel and getting published for dummies
What's on your shelf?
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:33 pm
I'm getting me a Kindle cause I'm running out of bookshelf. But right now I have a couple sections...
-Educamationable
* textbooks the university wouldn't buy back including fascinating topics like Fundamentals of Financial Management, Computer Graphics (outdated and not the fun graphics either - more like how to program affine transformations), Principles of Marketing, and Database Processing (also outdated). Status: gathering dust.
* Textbooks I didn't want to sell back including C++ Essentials, Mapping the World of Harry Potter, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter, American Culture, With His Pistol in His Hand, Folk Groups and Folklore Genres, and a few others I can't read the titles of from my desk.
-Legends and History
* The Fairy Book. I have all of them.
* Tibetan Folk Tales
* Folk Tales from Simla
* Story of the Irish Race
* The Chronicles of the Celts
* Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland
* Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race (excellent book, takes a scholarly angle on the myth cycles instead of just retelling them)
* Are you noticing a theme? I could keep going.
* The Sword & the Mind
* Medieval Holidays and Festivals
* About five books of medieval illuminations
-Recreational
* The Dresden Files series
* Coldfire trilogy
* Harry Potter
* Magister trilogy
* Codex Alera series
* The Instrumentalities of the Night series
* some World of Warcraft novels that were a total waste of money
* Bard (wonderful telling of how Amgerin led the Irish to Ireland)
* Watership Down
* Book of the Dun Cow and Book of Sorrows (I cried SO MUCH)
* Various classics like Ivanhoe, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, etc.
* World War Z
* The Zombie Survival Guide
-Manga/graphic novels
* Naruto
* Fullmetal Alchemist
* MeruPuri
* Watchmen
* V for Vendetta
* Artesia (best graphic novel I have EVER read)
And there you have it. None of that is organized. Sherlock Holmes is crammed next to 44 Irish Short Stories which is resting against Business Communications which is supporting Fight Club. It's a nightmare trying to find anything. One of these days I'll fix that.
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 1:09 am
You have quite an interesting collection biggrin
I'll have to keep my eye out for some of them...
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 1:40 am
The stuff I'm holding on to is a variety of links, books currently in my suitcase, paperbacks I've bought more than once, and books in storage in one of two countries.
*Key of Solomon
*Lesser Key of Solomon
*Elements of Moral Philosophy
*Ender's Shadow
*things by Heinlein
*Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
*Stories (an anthology of fantastic spec fic)
*The Jungle Book
*The Boys King Arthur
*Gemstones (a book about the historical, mythological, and magical significance of various rocks)
*True Names
*The Book of Taliesin (Welsh and English translations included)
*Butcher Bird
*Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:35 am
Just got a new book: how to get a job in publishing biggrin (we will see how useful it is...)
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:08 pm
I have so many books right now. They're all kinda stuffed onto my wardrobe shelf since I have nowhere else to put them here in my dorm. xD My library includes "Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches," an excellent anthropology book, The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, some Dan Brown, The Road, Man's Search for Meaning, and oh God, I don't even know what else, and I don't feel like moving because my bed is comfy. XD
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:55 pm
Well, I have several shelves that are absolutely full of books. But I do have a favorites shelf, so I'll just put those ones down!
-Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine
-Fairest, by Gail Carson Levine
-The Two Princesses of Bamarre, by Gail Carson Levine
-The Farseer Trilogy, the Liveship Traders Trilogy, and the Tawny Man Trilogy, all by Robin Hobb
-The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
-Elantris, by Brandon Sanderson
-The Mistborn Trilogy, by Brandon Sanderson
-The Truth series and the Princess series, both by Dawn Cook
-Fire of the Covenant, by Gerald N. Lund
-The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas
-MeruPuri, by Matsuri Hino
-Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, by Hiyao Miyazaki
-Hana Kimi, by Natsuki Harada
-W Juliet, by Emura
Those are probably my absolute favorites, though it's really hard to narrow down my manga collection...
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:14 am
Well I'm not going to write all the titles seeing as my bookshelf is rather large (and overflowing I might add), but I'll give you an idea of whats there.
Many Harlequin Romance Novels
(old ones from the 80's and 90's. My mom doesn't throw any books out)
Nora Roberts:
The Irish Series
The Three Sister's Trilogy
The In The Garden Trilogy
The Blood Brothers Triology
Many others
Stephen King:
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Bag of Bones
Misery
Dreamcatcher
Hearts In Atlantis
IT
1st, 2nd & 3rd Dark Tower Series
Maggie Shanye
Twilight Series(yes, I read it...)
Night World Series
Iris Johansen (spelled that wrong me thinks)
Nicholas Sparks
Karen Marie Moning
Debbie McComber (spelled wrong more than likely...)
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien
Dean Koontz
And many, many others....trust me. I can't see them all thats how many books are on my shelf.
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:02 pm
Since I've gotten stuck on your planet only recently, my collection of Earth books is very small. I only have The Dark Glory War by Micheal A. Stackpole (I think) right now.
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:11 pm
 {This is what Esmeralda has to say.} Everything and anything. Teen books, classics, how-to books, even an American Sign Language Dictionary. I even have some mangas, which generally live with my art books. (I try to draw well, but I have problems with hands and feet and proportions.)
I really ought to get rid of some of my teen books. Art thanks to Sioga and her shop.
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