Most of my bedroom bookcases are by alpha order. Then have one that is all romance and science fiction series. One dedicated to Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb. Kitchen bookcases are by subject order - war, writing which is a catch all for how to, memoirs, nonfiction books about books, then TBR which is alpha. The living room one are a mish mash, some by color, and some by size. We recently replaced all our mix matched bookcases with Billies so had fun decided what went where.
I love this — Randy once said to me we didn’t need bookcases in every room and I about fell over. Of COURSE we do! Mine are Billies too - so functional!
You would have to have a whole bookcase for Nora - that is epically cool!
Howdy! It’s been a very stressful week so lots of escaping into books. I finished Elton John’s memoir Me and The White Road by Sarah Lotz which was a great scary book involving both Welsh caves and Mt. Everest. The third book I finished this week was the fantastical, magical Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris who wrote Chocolat.
New batch of books I’m reading:
All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper
Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
The Traveling Circus by Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel
Hope this weekend is less stressful! I bought Nghi Vo’s THE CITY IN GLASS this afternoon after meeting her at the studio - my goodness, she is a HOOT!!!
Good luck with release week. It'll be amazing just like the book and author! I laughed when you wrote "despite all my wishes to the contrary, I am not a designer". This is me! I'm also a minimalist who can take it too far leaving a room feeling like a monastery. I was this way before Marie Kondo and have yet to read any of her stuff for fear it'll inspire me to go further. The ironic thing is my youngest is the opposite and loves to fill her space with many things. She also has a good decorating eye that I'm glad she got from some ancestor on the hubby's side. Lucky girl.
I hope your library turns out the way you want it. I, too, like calming vibes so I'd go old school library feel. Besides color coated libraries have been a thing for a while. The trend has to be changing soon, right?
I finally read a book that I didn't put down. THE GIRL WHO WAS TAKEN by Charlie Donlea. A twisty story of two girls in high school who had a complicated acquaintance relationship who are both kidnapped at the same time. One escapes. One doesn't. The sister of the victim who never returned becomes an ME and embarks on finding out what happened to her sister, alongside the escaped kidnapped girl when a dead body turns up on her autopsy table that is related to her sister's disappearance.
Right now, I'm reading Jennifer Lynn Barnes, THE GRANDEST GAME. I needed a lighter read right now, and it has puzzles. Plus, I love her writing. All the feels for me.
I used to store my books alphabetically in multiple bookcases. I outgrew the bookcases and books started going into boxes in the basement. I don't typically re-read books, so when e-readers came out, I converted. All of my books got donated. I love having a huge library at my fingertips!
I finished HEIR by Sabaa Tahir and I just loved it so much!
I read THE CROWNS GAME by Evelyn Skye. A magic tournament set in 1800s Russia. I really liked it and I'll be going to the 2nd book soon.
I just started BOOK OF THE MONTH by Jennifer Probst. New to me author and I'm enjoying it...one hit wonder author trying to get ideas for a new bestseller. It's really funny!
My beloved Nebraska Cornhuskers take on Ohio St tomorrow in football. I'm not sure I can watch what will surely be a blood bath☹️
Okay with your enthusiasm about HEIR and JT's excitement to read it, I'm going to bite the bullet. I read the sample and liked it, but worried it'd get too fantasy for me. I keep hearing so many wonderful things about it, and if it's not for me, so be it, but I won't know until I read it.
I'm so happy to hear you're a reader like me, Amy. I rarely and I mean rarely reread books so when we moved to Texas 4 years ago, I donated all my books that weren't signed or weren't from author friends. I hope your Cornhuskers win!!!
HEIR is fantasy but not over the top. If you like it, you can always go back and read the EMBER IN THE ASHES series by the same author. It's set in the same world. The main characters in EMBER IN THE ASHES are secondary characters in HEIR, but you definitely don't have to read the series first.
I'm glad I'm not an oddity in that I rarely re-read books...lol
My Cornhuskers don't have a chance in the world to win tomorrow...I'll be more than happy to cheer for someone else's team!
It’s going to be a fun football Saturday, for sure. After last week I don’t know that I can deal… THE CROWNS GAME sounds great! A little Leigh Bardugo-ish? I hear you about downsizing the collection to the Kindle. I need to bit the bullet and only keep the ones I HAVE to have. But what shall I do in the zombie apocalypse? A library is my only value to the community!
I've donated sooooo many print books the last several years.
For the ones I still have, I tend to organize by genre (counting nonfiction as one large catch-all), and then by author. It's not necessarily alphabetical ("letterbetical" as someone I know used to call it), as I'll sometimes break strict alphabetizing if I have more books by a particular author.
I've been on the ebook and audiobook trains for a while now. It's very rare for me to get a print book anymore.
What is the book organization that you speak of!? 😂 My two small shelf’s started out grouped my author and then I got away from mainly reading mass markets paperbacks, and now it’s just stacks and stack and stacks of books everywhere. I’ve read 4 books this week! The last two ACOTAR books, Play The Fool by Lina Chern, and The Reaping by Jess Lourey. I think my final Fall Break book will be either Under The Whispering Door or The Peacock and The Sparrow by I.S. Berry.
Most of my bedroom bookcases are by alpha order. Then have one that is all romance and science fiction series. One dedicated to Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb. Kitchen bookcases are by subject order - war, writing which is a catch all for how to, memoirs, nonfiction books about books, then TBR which is alpha. The living room one are a mish mash, some by color, and some by size. We recently replaced all our mix matched bookcases with Billies so had fun decided what went where.
I love this — Randy once said to me we didn’t need bookcases in every room and I about fell over. Of COURSE we do! Mine are Billies too - so functional!
You would have to have a whole bookcase for Nora - that is epically cool!
My shelves are alphabetical by author. I need to move things around to accommodate recent purchases 😉. Cannot be trusted in a bookstore!
Oh heck no. That’s a recipe for disaster!
Howdy! It’s been a very stressful week so lots of escaping into books. I finished Elton John’s memoir Me and The White Road by Sarah Lotz which was a great scary book involving both Welsh caves and Mt. Everest. The third book I finished this week was the fantastical, magical Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris who wrote Chocolat.
New batch of books I’m reading:
All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper
Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
The Traveling Circus by Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel
Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen
Hope this weekend is less stressful! I bought Nghi Vo’s THE CITY IN GLASS this afternoon after meeting her at the studio - my goodness, she is a HOOT!!!
Good luck with release week. It'll be amazing just like the book and author! I laughed when you wrote "despite all my wishes to the contrary, I am not a designer". This is me! I'm also a minimalist who can take it too far leaving a room feeling like a monastery. I was this way before Marie Kondo and have yet to read any of her stuff for fear it'll inspire me to go further. The ironic thing is my youngest is the opposite and loves to fill her space with many things. She also has a good decorating eye that I'm glad she got from some ancestor on the hubby's side. Lucky girl.
I hope your library turns out the way you want it. I, too, like calming vibes so I'd go old school library feel. Besides color coated libraries have been a thing for a while. The trend has to be changing soon, right?
I finally read a book that I didn't put down. THE GIRL WHO WAS TAKEN by Charlie Donlea. A twisty story of two girls in high school who had a complicated acquaintance relationship who are both kidnapped at the same time. One escapes. One doesn't. The sister of the victim who never returned becomes an ME and embarks on finding out what happened to her sister, alongside the escaped kidnapped girl when a dead body turns up on her autopsy table that is related to her sister's disappearance.
Right now, I'm reading Jennifer Lynn Barnes, THE GRANDEST GAME. I needed a lighter read right now, and it has puzzles. Plus, I love her writing. All the feels for me.
Have a great weekend!
I need some monastic right now, desperately…. I have that Donlea book and haven’t tried it yet - thanks for reminding me!
I used to store my books alphabetically in multiple bookcases. I outgrew the bookcases and books started going into boxes in the basement. I don't typically re-read books, so when e-readers came out, I converted. All of my books got donated. I love having a huge library at my fingertips!
I finished HEIR by Sabaa Tahir and I just loved it so much!
I read THE CROWNS GAME by Evelyn Skye. A magic tournament set in 1800s Russia. I really liked it and I'll be going to the 2nd book soon.
I just started BOOK OF THE MONTH by Jennifer Probst. New to me author and I'm enjoying it...one hit wonder author trying to get ideas for a new bestseller. It's really funny!
My beloved Nebraska Cornhuskers take on Ohio St tomorrow in football. I'm not sure I can watch what will surely be a blood bath☹️
Okay with your enthusiasm about HEIR and JT's excitement to read it, I'm going to bite the bullet. I read the sample and liked it, but worried it'd get too fantasy for me. I keep hearing so many wonderful things about it, and if it's not for me, so be it, but I won't know until I read it.
I'm so happy to hear you're a reader like me, Amy. I rarely and I mean rarely reread books so when we moved to Texas 4 years ago, I donated all my books that weren't signed or weren't from author friends. I hope your Cornhuskers win!!!
HEIR is fantasy but not over the top. If you like it, you can always go back and read the EMBER IN THE ASHES series by the same author. It's set in the same world. The main characters in EMBER IN THE ASHES are secondary characters in HEIR, but you definitely don't have to read the series first.
I'm glad I'm not an oddity in that I rarely re-read books...lol
My Cornhuskers don't have a chance in the world to win tomorrow...I'll be more than happy to cheer for someone else's team!
It’s going to be a fun football Saturday, for sure. After last week I don’t know that I can deal… THE CROWNS GAME sounds great! A little Leigh Bardugo-ish? I hear you about downsizing the collection to the Kindle. I need to bit the bullet and only keep the ones I HAVE to have. But what shall I do in the zombie apocalypse? A library is my only value to the community!
Definitely got Leigh Bardugo vibes from THE CROWNS GAME.
What would any of us do without our electronics?
Heh… I don’t know!
Following. We’re in the process of building our new home that will have the small library that I’ve dreamed of for a very long time.
Love the idea of removing covers for an “old library” feel.
Also, send pictures!
I do too… I want to be the fun bookshelves that have the crazy packed feel but it’s giving me genuine anxiety.
I've donated sooooo many print books the last several years.
For the ones I still have, I tend to organize by genre (counting nonfiction as one large catch-all), and then by author. It's not necessarily alphabetical ("letterbetical" as someone I know used to call it), as I'll sometimes break strict alphabetizing if I have more books by a particular author.
I've been on the ebook and audiobook trains for a while now. It's very rare for me to get a print book anymore.
Letterbetical… that’s priceless! Totally stealing.
What is the book organization that you speak of!? 😂 My two small shelf’s started out grouped my author and then I got away from mainly reading mass markets paperbacks, and now it’s just stacks and stack and stacks of books everywhere. I’ve read 4 books this week! The last two ACOTAR books, Play The Fool by Lina Chern, and The Reaping by Jess Lourey. I think my final Fall Break book will be either Under The Whispering Door or The Peacock and The Sparrow by I.S. Berry.
Aspirational goals…. I need a reading week to catch up!