Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
i'd go 2001-5000 for you
how many books do you own?
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
90% sci fi and fantasy here, although I do have a few biographies, histories and a few bestiaries (books on magic creatures)
FridgeMagnet
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I probably only have a hundred or so - I left loads behind when I left the country, and didn't bring many back, and I've rather got out of the habit of buying them. Or, for that matter, reading them.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
You might be right, Pickman's. I reckon about a fifth to a quarter are natural history/horticultural. I forgot about the ones in the kitchen, food history and recipes.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
*reminds self: get elizabeth david book*
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I don't believe you. Wot about the book wot you wrote? Or was that a lie too?
He told me he wrote Mills & Boon romances and I believed him!
He has written a book though, he told me so with a straight face.
i was only joking.
i have only a half-written abortion of a book that will never be finished cos my writing mojo has vanished forever and i don't want it to come back, truth told.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i wouldn't believe everything he says - he told me he was in a churchill ad
i did not!
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I'm hugely gullible, me.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
the mills and boon thing was a misunderstanding that i allowed to become a big joke - it greatly amused me that people took it seriously
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
*bought*
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Good to know I wasn't alone OU, it makes me feel less of a plank.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I'd like one of these...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I wouldn't be surprised if I went home and found something like this at Mrs M's
I've seen that before. On a telly programme maybe? I think it's inspired. I'd so do that if I had a stairwell wide enough and lots of dosh.
Of course, I still want a dedicated study/library with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling shelves. Natch.
Voley
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He's got mental problems, in his defence. It's still pretty unforgivable though. A signed Irvine Welsh novel was one that disappeared at his hands, the git.
It's good isn't it? Except I go all stupid and malcoordinated when I'm confronted with those halfy halfy stairs
I think you should write that memoir we were discussing last night.
I'll write me own at the same time 'Please Daddy! Not the Neckshot!
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
You could make them full stairs, I doubt it would hinder the effect.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
How to fool Mrs M
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
There's a narrow corridor that runs behind my kitchen to my bedroom, and a friend's brother built bookshelves along one wall. The actual shelves are 11' long, 8' high and 1' deep so deep enough for a lot of double stacking. Overrun now so piles of books on the floor in there too. Side of my bed, another 26. 15 in the living room. 4 in the bathroom. Then where I work it's chocka with work related books - 2 crammed bookcases and piles everywhere.
I've started to try and keep track by cataloguing using Endnotes, but that's a long ongoing project. But when I was doing it I came across a paperback book called "The Collapsing Universe" by Isaac Asimov. Inside was a bookplate showing that it had been awarded to a friend when at school as a history prize. We only see him once a year and I've had the book by the side of my pooter for months ready to return to him - which I did last night. "I wondered where that had gone! This was the book that inspired me to do what I do now, thanks so much". Just shows what effect education and schools can have ... this Croydon comp had made an effort with giving book prizes to kids, and as a result this particular kid ended up working for NASA finding the signatures of black holes.
Always return books you have borrowed! You may never know how much they mean to someone.
I've started to try and keep track by cataloguing using Endnotes, but that's a long ongoing project. But when I was doing it I came across a paperback book called "The Collapsing Universe" by Isaac Asimov. Inside was a bookplate showing that it had been awarded to a friend when at school as a history prize. We only see him once a year and I've had the book by the side of my pooter for months ready to return to him - which I did last night. "I wondered where that had gone! This was the book that inspired me to do what I do now, thanks so much". Just shows what effect education and schools can have ... this Croydon comp had made an effort with giving book prizes to kids, and as a result this particular kid ended up working for NASA finding the signatures of black holes.
Always return books you have borrowed! You may never know how much they mean to someone.
Wouldn't want a fire in that place.
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