What subjects do you have rather a lot of books about?

[dessiato]

I don't have many now, but the most at the moment are Spanish civil war and Robert Ranking.

 

[hash tag]

Sorry for being offensive, but it's rather timely. I can keep the cds and like in obsessive order but can't keep tabs on the books. My dearest librarian partner this weekend has decided she wants all the books off the shelves and rearrange them all. By colour! Ye gods, it difficult enough to find anything as it is

 

[neonwilderness]

Railway stuff
Maps (partly linked to the above)
Photography

 

[Puddy_Tat]

probably not a great surprise to anyone that i have quite a lot of bus / tram related books, a modest number on railways, and quite a lot of london related stuff.

i think i'm at the point where i'm about to run out of bookshelf space again...

 

[toggle]

You should see the size of my true crime collection.

Somewhere between 150 to 200 just on that.

stop underestimating. I do know what you have hidden in the corner

 

[seventh bullet]

Russian and international Communist history.

 

[DaveCinzano]

It all starts off with Orang Utan playfully snooping around our reading habits, but mark my words, it will end with his hesitant hands opening a box containing one of our heads

 

[Cheesypoof]

Religion (that includes athiesm).

 

[chilango]

I have quite a few books about London, but nowhere near as many books as my dad has on Antarctica. I just counted and he has 111!
What about you?

Mountaineering
Grizzly bears
alcoholic detectives
Obscure Political ideas

 

[wayward bob]

My dearest librarian partner this weekend has decided she wants all the books off the shelves and rearrange them all. By colour!

best plan ever

 

[hash tag]

no, it deeply offends my obsessiveness!

 

[Griff]

TVR

 

[billy_bob]

The holocaust, Alaska and the Arctic Circle, linguistics, history of graphic design, and American short stories.

 

[TikkiB]

London
Design history
floristry
cookery

 

[catinthehat]

History, Politics, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Film, Criminology, Feminism.

 

[Kanda]

Decompression theory (not the most exact science!!!)

 

[DotCommunist]

Decompression theory (not the most exact science!!!)

but I imagine, one a diver wants too keep fresh in his mind at all times lol. From what I've read of the bends it sounds like an excrutiating way to kark it

 

[Kanda]

but I imagine, one a diver wants too keep fresh in his mind at all times lol. From what I've read of the bends it sounds like an excrutiating way to kark it

Medical conditions aside (PFO ) you have to be fucking stupid to get bent to be fair... I just love the geeky side of it all

 

[Red About Town]

Irish republicanism.

 

[scifisam]

British history, esp London
Linguistics
Shakespeare and Tudor History
Ancient Rome

Plus about 100 EFL books, but I use those for work so it's a bit different.

 

[Sherman Tank]

Loads on HR/IR/Organisational theory which are work related and quite a few on branding and advertising for the same reason. Other than that loads of Science Fiction and also biography especially poltical bios, like the Alan Clark and Alistair Campbell ones, books on Churchill, Mandela, and the history of the Liberal party, lastly travel writing and Lonely Planets.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Writing
WW2 evacuees (research for a book)

Other than that it's a complete mixture of topics.

 

[marshall]

Grit Lit, Southern noir; the darker the better.

 

[Ming]

Lots is Sci-Fi, psychiatry, corporate crime, politics, music biographies, cook books. Bit of everything really. Got the first four Ultimate editions of Sandman by Neil Gaiman which are things of beauty.

 

[Teenage Cthulhu]

Grit Lit, Southern noir; the darker the better.

Grit lit?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Grit lit?

 

[Epona]

Greek and Roman history and archaeology. Physics.

 

[albionism]

Cooking
Anarchism
Films
Music

 

[Spymaster]

Sorry for being offensive, but it's rather timely. I can keep the cds and like in obsessive order but can't keep tabs on the books. My dearest librarian partner this weekend has decided she wants all the books off the shelves and rearrange them all. By colour! Ye gods, it difficult enough to find anything as it is

Our bookcases are simply arranged, "mine" and "hers". Same with cds, which means that generally speaking, if you open one of my cd boxes the disc inside will correspond to the writing on the case. It's a far more random affair with Mrs Spy's cds, but she listens to them differently. Rather than deciding what she wants to hear then finding the cd, she shuffles through cd cases until she finds a disc she wants to play. That disc may or may not be subsequently returned to the same case that it came from.

Whatever works I guess.

 

[Pickman's model]

ireland (esp. republicanism but including [one of my favourite titles] 'the curious case of the mayo librarian')
siberia
the life and works of howard phillips lovecraft
the works of caitlin r kiernan
library history