What's in your bookcase?

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:12 pm

It says a lot about you, or maybe it doesn't. What this says about me, I don't know....

I've just had a trawl along one of my bookcases and this lot is on the top shelf. BTW I don't operate a library system. The books just get shoved into the nearest spare space so this is almost random.

Life on Earth - David Attenborough

Dictionary of Classical Mythology

Bill McLarens' autobiography – Bill McLaren

Celtic Britain - John Rhys

Ancient Man in Britain - Donald A MacKenzie

A Choice of Anglo-Saxon verse – Richard Hamer

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

Sharpes Waterloo – Bernard Cornwell

The Kingdom of the Isles – R. Andrew MacDonald

Command Descision – Elizabeth Moon

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers – W E Aytoun

The Wild Flower Key

Bawdy British Folk Songs – Tony McCarthy

The Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan

Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms – Alistair Moffat

Folktales of the Scottish Borders

Collected Verse – Robert Service (vol 1)

The Decameron – Boccaccio

Rogets' Thesaurus

Nua-bhardachd Ghaidhlig

Hadrians' Wall – James Forde-Johnston

Field Guide to Trees of Britain and Europe

Field guide to Birds of Britain and Ireland

War of Honor – David Weber

1634: The Gallileo Affair – Eric Flint/Andrew Dennis

Civilisations – Felipe FernÃ¡ndez-Armesta

Culloden - John Prebble

Fall of the Roman Empire - Peter Heather

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:14 pm

I have a very large bookcase, about 200 books.

Half are on History of Native Americans, the other half a mixture of ancient history, my Greek and Latin texts, ancient Egyptian, and half a shelf of poetry related books. A a big volume of Shakespeare's comedies on the bottom shelf.....

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:20 pm

3 and half thousand books:wah: :wah: i used to work for 10 years a second hand book shop.

I have all sorts of books but my main intrest is egypt and TE Lawarance

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:25 pm

neffy;612850 wrote: 3 and half thousand books:wah: :wah: i used to work for 10 years a second hand book shop.

I have all sorts of books but my main intrest is egypt and TE Lawarance

AHHHH, Heavennnnnnnnnnn....:yh_sigh

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:28 pm

you can say that again i could not even think not to have no books in my house,hubby says why do i keep on bying books and i just say its better looking at him:wah: :wah:

Knoew really i love having books around me

pinkchick · Post by **pinkchick** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:39 pm

I LOVE books!! I have everything from chic lit to crime novels to the classics:)

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:45 pm

Yes but what's in it?

Titles and authors please, if any of you can be bothered.

pinkchick · Post by **pinkchick** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:52 pm

I'll have to go and look now:wah:

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:08 pm

neffy;612850 wrote: TE Lawarance

My grandfather was very friendly with him.

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:17 pm

Bill Sikes;612887 wrote: My grandfather was very friendly with him.

oh really i used to work in a book shop in salisbury and in the early 30's he would come to the book shop and help out.

I would be intrested in anything about the friend ship

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:30 pm

Chookie;612868 wrote: Yes but what's in it?

Titles and authors please, if any of you can be bothered.

David Bryn - Earth Brillliant Eco SF

Weis & Hickman - Dragonlance Tales Good Fantasy Fun

Zelasny - Lord of Light One of the best SF novels ever written

Edgar Pangborn - Davy A much neglected author

Gordon R Dickson - The Forever Man Good but not his best

Travel Books - Brussels, Australia, Budapast, Corsica, Slovinia, India

Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum Preferred The Name of the Rose

Frazer - The Golden Bough Useful reference & interesting read

Kipling - The Complete Verse Nuff said

Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code Readable escapism

Dan Brown - Digital Fortress Unalloyed garbage

Gore Vidal - 1876

Gore Vidal - Myron

James Joyce - Portrate of the Artist as a Young Man

G B Shaw - Pygmalion

Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival

Sardar & Davies - American Dream, Global Nightmare

Robert Fisk - The Great War For Civilisation

John Galsworthy - A Modern Comedy

Marlowe - Dr. Faustus

Moliere - The Misanthrope

Herman Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

Bernard Cornwall - Shap's Escape

Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac

Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - The Mistress of Spices

At this point I get bored looking at the shelves - most of my reference works are at home but I had to get rid of box loads of books when we moved back to Leicester.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:01 pm

Cool thread, Chookie.

I have too many books to list. I have a lot of poetry, mostly classic, some contemporary. A lot of instruction books for painting, floral work, mosaics, and a bunch of crafts I do....reference books on all kinds of victorian elements, their wallpaper, clothing, etc...books on victorian houses and other period architecture...books on witchcraft, magick, paganism, spiritualism, ghosts...biographies...a lot of books on historical events and aspects...thesaurases, dictionaries, some medical books...books on writing...cute sentimental books with pictures of animals and cute verses...a lot of books on various animals and their habits...a ton of cookbooks...some fiction but not very much...some books on politics...humor books like Dave Barry...a lot of comic books like Get Fuzzy and Bloom County...probably more I've overlooked.

I'm sorry to not list titles and authors, Chookie, I'm pretty lazy in that aspect. Hope you'll forgive me.

kumininexile · Post by **kumininexile** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:29 pm

Are you familiar with the American author named Herman Melville? I guess he's best known for his book, Moby Dick. Anyway, I think for a while he lived in one of the original buildings of the estate which became the campus for my old boarding school years later. I used to know the guy who married Melville's granddaughter, (maybe she was his great-granddaughter, I'm not sure.) I remember my friend introducing me to her. She had blonde hair. I don't think they stayed married for very long.

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:35 pm

apart from mma and work related stuff

I own 1 book , the elephant and the twig by geoff thompson

i guess having dyslexia meant i was not a great reader

you would never guess it by looking at my posts would you :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

koan · Post by **koan** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:20 am

I could only take one box of books with me so I'm looking forward to fondling my collection when I'm back visiting Canada this summer. I tried to take ones that I thought would be needed as reference material.

Books I brought with me to England:

Zeek - The Art of Shen Ku, The First Intergalactic Artform of the Entire Universe

Hoffman - Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal

Zolar - Encyclopedia Of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge

Feinberg & Shafer-Landau - Reason & Responsibility (Basic Problems of Philosophy)

David Allen Hulse - The Eastern Mysteries

David Allen Hulse - The Western Mysteries

Banzhaf & Hemmerlein - Tarot As Your Companion

Scott Cunningham - Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic

Dennis Hauck - The Emerald Tablet (Alchemy)

Aleister Crowley - The Book of Thoth

Dr. Douglas Baker - The Seven Rays, Key to the Mysteries

Ted Andrews - Imagick (Qabalah)

Florence Wagner McClain - Past Life Regression

Lon Milo DuQuette - The Chicken Qabalah

Wendy Palmer - The Intuitive Body

Norton Juster - The Dot and The Line

Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival

Betty May - Tiger Woman

Ernest Becker - Escape From Evil

Erich Fromm - Fear of Freedom

Louise L Hay - Heal Your Body

Erich Fromm - The Art of Loving (thanks to A Karenina from FG)

The Bald Headed Hermit and The Artichoke (a sexual thesaurus)

and a few others that are currently in a room being guarded by the Loch Ness Monster. (long story)

I shall slay the beast and report back.

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:12 pm

koan;613094 wrote: and a few others that are currently in a room being guarded by the Loch Ness Monster. (long story)

I shall slay the beast and report back.

Don't you bloody dare. Nessie is worth squillions.

crazygal · Post by **crazygal** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:41 pm

Mine is full of my sons videos.