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

[ElizabethofYork]

Tudor history
The Wars of the Roses
Self-help books (mostly started with gusto, and then discarded with disappointment)

 

[hash tag]

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.

Couldn't do that. My obsessive way would preclde it and her way would also, then there is the question mark over whose is whose. I could not be dow with that.

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

Being attached to a librarian, you have thrown me there library history are there that many books about it?

 

[Orang Utan]

Couldn't do that. My obsessive way would preclde it and her way would also, then there is the question mark over whose is whose. I could not be dow with that.



Being attached to a librarian, you have thrown me there library history are there that many books about it?

Why wouldn't there be?

 

[Pickman's model]

Being attached to a librarian, you have thrown me there library history are there that many books about it?

yes. for a start there's the three volume cambridge history of libraries in britain and ireland, which you can get for about £25/vol; 'the library at night', 'library: an unquiet history', the book about the mayo librarian i referred to, a number of scholarly journals, one of the cilip groups is devoted to library history, there is a regular library history seminar at the university of london (which is open to all).

 

[hash tag]

I could not be doing with two seperate filing systems, like I said, I,m quite obsessive about such things,.

anyway, here's two of our book cases

PS I see there are many petitions on Change.org to save librarys, Lambeth included. London Borough of Lambeth: Don't steal our libraries

 

[The Octagon]

Film (biographies, histories, theory)
Counterfactual history (I like the 'road not taken' and how small changes could have altered things in some situations)
Comics / graphic novels

 

[Dieselpunk2000]

Titanic.
Brutalist architecture.
Engineering and science reference books.
The Mob in sixties Las Vegas.
Graphic novels and fiction/non fiction about ships and sea mysteries.
I also have a big collection of J G Ballard books.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

art
drawing/painting
nature field guides
organic gardening
travel
adventure
cooking
do-it-yourself
SF

 

[sojourner]

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?

Tell your dad I'll be in touch!

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Not really a subject but I have loads of plays. Multiple copies of the same title in some cases!

 

[KeeperofDragons]

History - both mine & Mr Keeper's
Politics - both mine & Mr Keeper's
Calligraphy
Photography
Art
Cookery
Science fiction
Humour
Languages

Damn we need to sort these out

Eta: forgot my collection of Asterix books

 

[ringo]

Well over 100 books about reggae, Jamaican politics & history. Almost everything that's been written of note, including every early reggae book.
Cookery
American deep south fiction
Pulitzer prize winners
Archaeology
The Classics
Chinese ceramics and art
Japanese ceramics and art
Woodwork & Cabinetmaking

 

[nogojones]

History (particularly Russian and English revolutions)
Politics
Gardening
Cacti
Cookery
Drugs
Classics
quite a bit of crime fiction

 

[Pingu]

i seem to have more books than i need on dark ages briton

also on project management.

 

[pennimania]

Art, gardening, apocalyptica and doctors and nurses.

 

[Sea Star]

Bowie biographies
20th century US history
Analyses of US foreign policy
UFO books and other Forteana
Tudor history
Sci Fi

 

[marty21]

WW2 (mrs21 has loads on WW1 ) Vietnam War, American History , Irish history, Sci Fi, crime fiction , travel, American fiction.