Library Thing

[jadesfire]

You know, I'm fairly sure that I'm a sane and sensible human being. Well, I have moments when I'm a sane and sensible human being, else I'm pretty sure I would have been sacked by now. Anyway, after years of practice, I've managed to train myself out of buying everything in sight when I walk into a bookshop.

Oh alright.

I've stopped going into bookshops. It's safer that way. I managed a swift trip round Waterstones the other day and honestly. Kid in a sweet shop has got nothing on it. Fortunately, I have something I'm saving up for at the moment, a husband with an impressive glare and no room whatsoever for new books.

Unfortunately, this means I tend to lose all sense of proportion and rationality when I go in a library. I swear I just meant to get the odd thing to read - I'm sure my writing's suffering because I don't read enough books - I absolutely did not mean to get 9 books out. And I only took the spare bag just in case.

*ahem*

So I now have the following books and can't wait to get stuck into them:

The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
Roma by Steven Saylor
White Corridor by Christopher Fowler
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt
Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time by Diana and Michael Preston (the story of the Taj Mahal) [Audiobook for while I'm working]

Any suggestions where I shoudl start, or where I should go next? I tend to choose more or less at random, which often leads to only choosing authors whose names begin with A-C, since that's how far through the fiction section I get before I can't carry any more books...

Comments

[ladyamarra.livejournal.com]

*rofl* Bookworm! (meant in the nicest way possible)

Sadly I have no suggestions at all since I'm not that much into reading (My addiction is colour pigments... you should see my (spare) kitchen shelfs packed full with all sorts of little plastic bags and glass containers with colours. I never managed to leave the shops without at least 5 or 6 pounds of different colours.)

But if you ever need a suggestion whats looking more alive on a canvas; Egyptian blue or mountain blue, i'm totally your girl.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'll bear that in mind...

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

As I don't know any of the authors, can't really help, but it's nice to know I'm not the only one who loves books too much - I've still got quite a few unread ones on my bookshelf.

I like your header by the way!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I have far too many unread books to be borrowing this many from the library. Somehow, I just don't seem to be able to help myself...

Thanks! All my own work :D

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

Well, if you are that talented, any hope of one with Jack/Ianto and even the real!Jack thrown in?

If too much work, no problem whatsoever!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! The book icon is by girlyb_icons, not me. I just steal good pictures from elsewhere, which is what I did for the header on the whole journal. But do have a browse through my userpics if you're looking for good icon makers - I sort of collect them :D

[thalia]

Have you read any Sandman before? That first book is a bit uneven; it's the next storyline where Gaiman really hits his stride. It's worth starting at the beginning, though.

If it's your first time though those books, I'm totally jealous. I started reading it at about issue #32 when it was first published--yes, I'm ancient--and I still remember how much fun it was waiting for the next one every month.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I hadn't read Sandman before, because I'm too cheap to buy them, and #1 was almost never in the library. So when I saw it was there today, I grabbed it. I've made the mistake of not starting at the beginning before now, and spoiling myself something rotten.

*grin* Thanks. I'm quite looking forward to it myself...

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Yay, books! And double YAY, Sandman! It is absolutely awesome and I hope you like it.

Have you read "The End Of Mr Y" by Scarlett Thomas? It's a really good, thinky-funny sort of book, very philosophical and very, very clever.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks. I've had the cunning plan of setting up an Amazon wishlist for all the books I want to read - should save some time at Christmas too! but it's a great place to store all these lists where I can actually find the damn things again :D

That looks like a great book, and I can get it from the library. 85p (for a reservation) is somewhat more affordable as these things pile up...

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Amazon wishlists are awesome. That reminds me, must update mine.

Today I actually managed to go into Smiths and buy my college stuff without looking at the books, AND into Waterstones to look for one thing I needed without losing it and buying things because of the pretty covers :0)

Mr Y is very good, but I haven't read anything else by her yet. Looks like she might be one of those little-known great authors.

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

Amazon wish lists are a brain saver!!! I even save book/dvd titles that I want to get for my family members, on there. LOL.

Re: header
I noticed that most of those shelves are empty...so you have room to fill them. hee

Suggestion:
Since you choose your books randomly, anyway, why not just read them in alphabetical order the way you got them? But in this case start with the Sandman and then do that. =D

Next time you go to the Library, start with a C-section and move on through the alphabet. Then you won't be getting books just from authors A-C. Make a little method to your madness. I have the same problem, by the way! =D

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I am like that in *cheap* book shops... never take me to the Oxfam shop, oh no. I'll buy more than I can carry

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

That would be one of the bookshop's I'm not allowed in. Ever. I bought waaaay too much in there when I was a student. At this point, I'm restricted to the library by sheer shelfspace!

[ladyamarra.livejournal.com]

*rofl* Bookworm! (meant in the nicest way possible)

Sadly I have no suggestions at all since I'm not that much into reading (My addiction is colour pigments... you should see my (spare) kitchen shelfs packed full with all sorts of little plastic bags and glass containers with colours. I never managed to leave the shops without at least 5 or 6 pounds of different colours.)

But if you ever need a suggestion whats looking more alive on a canvas; Egyptian blue or mountain blue, i'm totally your girl.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'll bear that in mind...

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

As I don't know any of the authors, can't really help, but it's nice to know I'm not the only one who loves books too much - I've still got quite a few unread ones on my bookshelf.

I like your header by the way!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I have far too many unread books to be borrowing this many from the library. Somehow, I just don't seem to be able to help myself...

Thanks! All my own work :D

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

Well, if you are that talented, any hope of one with Jack/Ianto and even the real!Jack thrown in?

If too much work, no problem whatsoever!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! The book icon is by girlyb_icons, not me. I just steal good pictures from elsewhere, which is what I did for the header on the whole journal. But do have a browse through my userpics if you're looking for good icon makers - I sort of collect them :D

[thalia]

Have you read any Sandman before? That first book is a bit uneven; it's the next storyline where Gaiman really hits his stride. It's worth starting at the beginning, though.

If it's your first time though those books, I'm totally jealous. I started reading it at about issue #32 when it was first published--yes, I'm ancient--and I still remember how much fun it was waiting for the next one every month.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I hadn't read Sandman before, because I'm too cheap to buy them, and #1 was almost never in the library. So when I saw it was there today, I grabbed it. I've made the mistake of not starting at the beginning before now, and spoiling myself something rotten.

*grin* Thanks. I'm quite looking forward to it myself...

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Yay, books! And double YAY, Sandman! It is absolutely awesome and I hope you like it.

Have you read "The End Of Mr Y" by Scarlett Thomas? It's a really good, thinky-funny sort of book, very philosophical and very, very clever.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks. I've had the cunning plan of setting up an Amazon wishlist for all the books I want to read - should save some time at Christmas too! but it's a great place to store all these lists where I can actually find the damn things again :D

That looks like a great book, and I can get it from the library. 85p (for a reservation) is somewhat more affordable as these things pile up...

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Amazon wishlists are awesome. That reminds me, must update mine.

Today I actually managed to go into Smiths and buy my college stuff without looking at the books, AND into Waterstones to look for one thing I needed without losing it and buying things because of the pretty covers :0)

Mr Y is very good, but I haven't read anything else by her yet. Looks like she might be one of those little-known great authors.

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

Amazon wish lists are a brain saver!!! I even save book/dvd titles that I want to get for my family members, on there. LOL.

Re: header
I noticed that most of those shelves are empty...so you have room to fill them. hee

Suggestion:
Since you choose your books randomly, anyway, why not just read them in alphabetical order the way you got them? But in this case start with the Sandman and then do that. =D

Next time you go to the Library, start with a C-section and move on through the alphabet. Then you won't be getting books just from authors A-C. Make a little method to your madness. I have the same problem, by the way! =D

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I am like that in *cheap* book shops... never take me to the Oxfam shop, oh no. I'll buy more than I can carry

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

That would be one of the bookshop's I'm not allowed in. Ever. I bought waaaay too much in there when I was a student. At this point, I'm restricted to the library by sheer shelfspace!