Bookshelves are a marvellous thing don’t you think? They stand there in a corner of the room, harbouring piles of well thumbed tomes – books that you just can’t bring yourself to part with and which mean something to you, in some obscure or overwhelming way. When you’re having one of those moments, where you’re desperate to get your teeth into some meaty reading, to loose yourself to that wonderfully indulgent and completely selfish pursuit of escapism – the bookshelf can guarantee you that trip through nostalgia.
This is why when I discovered Keynko’s blog post titled, ‘What does your bookcase say about you?‘, I just had to join in with the blog hop.
Behold!
This is my bookcase. It’s a mish-mash of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, thriller, classic, factual and you could say, everything else. Not to mention the amount of clutter that seems to accumulate on it’s dust covered shelves!
Here we have my (almost) entire collection of Robin Hobb books. I love, love love her – especially her Farseer Trilogy, which was just magic. Amoung them we also have some James Herbert, Fiona McIintosh, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, some classics and a copy of The Prose Edda, which I bought for The Beef two years ago, for his birthday. He still hasn’t read it. We also have lots of bubbles.
This shelf has, surprise, surprise, yet more J.R.R. Tolkien, with some Dickens, George R.R. Martin, Milton, Terry Pratchett and Richard Dawkins.
Ooh look! More George R.R. Martin, Tolkien, James Herbert and Stephen King. Can you see the theme here?
Yep – more Tolkien and Robin Hobb, accompanied by Douglas Adams, Nigel Slater’s ‘The 30 Minute Cook’, a book about drawing and hidden in the corner there, Brian Cox’s ‘Wonders of the Universe’, which I’m yet to read. Yes that is a saucepan!
I’m also one of those weird hybrid reading people…thing. I own a Kindle and have real tangible books. I like to have the best of both worlds and the kindle opens up a whole new accessible world of literature to me, that I simply wouldn’t have discovered elsewhere. However those authors that I truly love, their works will never be purchased in the digital format by me. There is something about the printed book, that cannot be replaced by a load of pixels.
If you want to join in on the blog hop, then hop on over to Keynko’s post and tell us what your bookcase, says about you!
Excellent! You have Douglas Adams and the best books ever written – Good Omens! A nerd of my own kind!!
Oh Lordy, I’ve read Good Omens more times than I can count, it’s an excellent read and never fails to make me laugh. As for Douglas Adams, he needs no explanation aside from the word ‘Awesome’. Celestial Teapot springs to mind hehe.
Ooh I’ve linked up too!
Oh I’m a big Stephen King fan! I haven’t read any Robin Hobbs but if you say check her out then I shall!
I feel a bit guilty, in that I’ve only just started reading Stephen King, after the other half’s suggestion. I like what I’m reading though. If you like a bit of well written fantasy then I’d definitely check Robin Hobb out. I was hooked by the first chapter of her first book and then went on to read all 11!
Great idea, and I have to say I love a messy bookshelf – I’m always highly suspicious of people if their homes have few books! It’s one of the things that is sad about e-readers. I used to enjoy curiously looking at people’s bookcovers on the tube, and now it’s just another device. I too am a dual user Kindle & hard copy. Enjoy!
Oh yes, I’m a book cover reader on the bus. It’s amazing what you can deduce about a person, from the type of things that they read. So true about the house with few books thing. The mind boggles when people proudly state that they ‘don’t do books’. I’m like ‘Wha? No books? Runaway!’
ooh I love Stephen King and James Herbert- a taste I inherited from my Mum! I love that your bookcase, like mine, gets invaded with the odds and sods of life too- a very homely shelf!
Seriously, I went through a period of reading nothing but James Herbert. Surprisingly though, I didn’t watch the BBC adaptation of “The Secret of Crickley Hall”, I kind of felt it would spoil my own imaginings of it. As for the bookshelf – no matter how many times I clear it, it always ends up being re-invaded – more often than not, worse than it was before. Glad I’m not alone in this!!
I read every single James Herbert and Stephen King I could lay my hands on as a teenager, but like you I do tend to make use of a Kindle now – it really is a different thing to a tangible book and not as special, it doesn’t smell the same or have the cover or the weight, but it’s darn handy for trying out new authors and reading in bed!
Yes this is exactly what I mean! I stood in book shop so many times, flicking through a book I liked the look of, but not sure if it’s going to be a waste of time. At least with the kindle I can wait until it’s on offer, look at some of the reviews and then judge whether it’s something for me. This is something I did with ‘Life of Pi’ and I was pleasantly surprised!
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