Bookshelves
My New TBR Cart, or the Big Home Decluttering Project
… Part 1. It started last weekend when I resolved to finally catch up with a few overdue tasks, which — go figure — suddenly also restored at least a semblance of order to my office. (A colleague with whom I’m working very closely, and who is just about the only person permitted to get […]
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My Lost pre-U.S.-Sojourn Library
24 Festive Tasks: Door 7 – International Day for Tolerance: Task 3 The French expression for tolerance towards others is “laisser faire, laisser aller” (roughly: “let them do as they want, let it go”). Have you ever “let go” a book (e.g., given it away or decided not to yield to the temptation to buy […]
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My Book Shelving System
24 Festive Tasks: Door 4 – Guy Fawkes Night, Task 4: How do you order the books on your shelves? Umm. It’s … complicated. Or at least, multi-layered. 1st sorting layer: Genre / Topic Classics and LitFic Mysteries and Suspense (everything from Golden Age and classic noir to contemporary, including spy fiction, except for […]
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Reading Lists and Bookshelves — Suggestions for BookLikes-opoly
In connection with my Around the World reading challenge, I’ve created a few reading lists for books from / set in countries other than North America and Western Europe: Maybe they’re going to be of assistance with some of the BL-opoly squares calling for books from those parts of the world. Books on each of […]
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Human Rights Keywords in Book Titles
24 Festive Tasks: Door 16 – Human Rights Day, Task 1: Book hunt for human rights: Search your shelves for books with titles containing human rights words such as: hope, friendship, equality, justice, love, liberty, etc. Put them in a stack and take a picture for posting. (5 book minimum). Since I just recently restored […]
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My 2018 Book Harvest
24 Festive Tasks: Door 9 – Thanksgiving, Task 4: Show us your 2018 book “harvest” – the books you newly acquired this year, regardless whether bought, received as gift or in whichever other way. Well, we know that 2018 was the year I almost broke my shelving system … … or would have, if […]
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Houston, we had a problem …
… and it was called books. Stacks of unsorted books, to be precise. Three years’ worth of stacks of unsorted books, to be even more precise. Now, even back in 2015, after the last major overhaul of my bookshelves, those were already looking like this: … in other words, no room to spare in the […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Final Tally
The Markers: Stack of Books: Books read Red Bows and Ribbons: Other Tasks completed Joker cards used: The Squares, Books and Other Tasks: Square 1: November 1st: All Saints Day / Día de los Muertos & Calan Gaeaf Book themes for Día de Muertos and All Saint’s Day: A book that […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Updates / Blackout
I’ve yet to read at least one book for some of the squares, but I’ve completed a minimum of either one book or one task for all of the squares, and in several cases, more. The Markers: Stack of Books: Books read Red Bows and Ribbons: Other Tasks completed […]
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The 5 Things I’m Most Grateful For in Life
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 4 – Thanksgiving Tasks for Thanksgiving Day: List of 5 things you’re grateful for. Three days late, but anyway, here we go: 1.) My mom. Life wasn’t always a bed of roses for her, but she brought me up never once letting me feel it. Praise was always […]
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Cat and Book Lovers: This Bag Was Made for You …
www.usgearlaunch.com/products/cats-bookshelf-tote-bag?variant=50702521556 Just shared on my FB wall by a friend … isn’t it too cute? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1605478/cat-and-book-lovers-this-bag-was-made-for-you
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