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oyceterAgain, books. I was rereading through my LJ (am I the only person who rereads her own LJ entries? Now that I say it, it sounds particularly self-interested and stuck-up), and I want to kind of jot down stuff I plan on buying.
Books, I mean.
I'm so incredibly happy I have an apartment with space and I don't have to move every year, although I'm moving this year anyway. But still! Next year I will have three rooms, and if the boy doesn't have too much stuff, I can maybe even stick bookshelves in his room! Then I can have my genre bookshelf, my YA bookshelf, my non-genre fiction books, my non-fiction bookshelf, my manga bookshelf, and my comics bookshelf. Or, er, shelf.
I went through a brief period of trauma when I couldn't decide if I should put authors like Susan Cooper and DWJ on the YA shelf or with the rest of my genre books. Right now they're living with my fantasy books (romance is on another shelf). Even when I was a kid I used to periodically pull all my books off the shelf and organize them alphabetically by author's last name (Mc incorporated into M, as opposed to before), then by series and chronologically within an author's work. Or sometimes I'd put hardcover and trade paperbacks before the mass markets, depending on my mood. Mostly I have mass markets because I'm cheap, so it annoys me when I have a trade paperback or hardcover of one book in a series because it sticks out and it is not pretty. I am very neurotic about my books -- I used to give this giant spiel to people before I let them borrow my books (no spine bending, no page folding, and it has to come back in mint condition!). Now I'm a little better, but it still annoys me to get books back in bad condition. I left my romances lying around my room in college and all my roommates read them, and now they're in awful shape. The boy said that when he was a kid he was taught it was good to break the spine so that the binding wouldn't fall apart later. I personally have no idea what he's talking about... anyone else heard this?
Can anyone else tell that I am extremely obsessive compulsive about some things?
Anyway, I really need to beef up my YA collection. I want to buy back all the books I loved as a kid in great condition. I want a new copy of Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard, because my cover fell off and is now scotch-taped on. I just treated myself to the boxed set of Anne books. I want LM Montgomery's Kilmeny of the Orchard. I want the Wise Child books. I want Sherryl Jordan's The Juniper Game. Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins. Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. The Chronicles of Narnia. Cynthia Voight's Izzy Willy-Nilly. Margaret Mahy's The Changeover. More DWJ, particularly Howl's Moving Castle. More stuff I can't think of...
For sf/f, I want Emma Bull's War for the Oaks, GGK's Tigana in better condition, Robin McKinley's A Door in the Hedge (with Sunshine, these are the only two books of hers I don't have), Earthsea, the third George R. R. Martin book in PB, the second and third book of the Kushiel trilogy, Juliet Marillier's Son of the Shadow, and assorted others.
All books I've read, so the need is not pressing, but it really annoys me, not having a complete series. And I feel they are good investments. So I wait in my bookstore for them to drift in in good condition.
Books, I mean.
I'm so incredibly happy I have an apartment with space and I don't have to move every year, although I'm moving this year anyway. But still! Next year I will have three rooms, and if the boy doesn't have too much stuff, I can maybe even stick bookshelves in his room! Then I can have my genre bookshelf, my YA bookshelf, my non-genre fiction books, my non-fiction bookshelf, my manga bookshelf, and my comics bookshelf. Or, er, shelf.
I went through a brief period of trauma when I couldn't decide if I should put authors like Susan Cooper and DWJ on the YA shelf or with the rest of my genre books. Right now they're living with my fantasy books (romance is on another shelf). Even when I was a kid I used to periodically pull all my books off the shelf and organize them alphabetically by author's last name (Mc incorporated into M, as opposed to before), then by series and chronologically within an author's work. Or sometimes I'd put hardcover and trade paperbacks before the mass markets, depending on my mood. Mostly I have mass markets because I'm cheap, so it annoys me when I have a trade paperback or hardcover of one book in a series because it sticks out and it is not pretty. I am very neurotic about my books -- I used to give this giant spiel to people before I let them borrow my books (no spine bending, no page folding, and it has to come back in mint condition!). Now I'm a little better, but it still annoys me to get books back in bad condition. I left my romances lying around my room in college and all my roommates read them, and now they're in awful shape. The boy said that when he was a kid he was taught it was good to break the spine so that the binding wouldn't fall apart later. I personally have no idea what he's talking about... anyone else heard this?
Can anyone else tell that I am extremely obsessive compulsive about some things?
Anyway, I really need to beef up my YA collection. I want to buy back all the books I loved as a kid in great condition. I want a new copy of Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard, because my cover fell off and is now scotch-taped on. I just treated myself to the boxed set of Anne books. I want LM Montgomery's Kilmeny of the Orchard. I want the Wise Child books. I want Sherryl Jordan's The Juniper Game. Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins. Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. The Chronicles of Narnia. Cynthia Voight's Izzy Willy-Nilly. Margaret Mahy's The Changeover. More DWJ, particularly Howl's Moving Castle. More stuff I can't think of...
For sf/f, I want Emma Bull's War for the Oaks, GGK's Tigana in better condition, Robin McKinley's A Door in the Hedge (with Sunshine, these are the only two books of hers I don't have), Earthsea, the third George R. R. Martin book in PB, the second and third book of the Kushiel trilogy, Juliet Marillier's Son of the Shadow, and assorted others.
All books I've read, so the need is not pressing, but it really annoys me, not having a complete series. And I feel they are good investments. So I wait in my bookstore for them to drift in in good condition.
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Thu, Mar. 25th, 2004 04:27 am (UTC)So, um, yeah. A little obsessive.
Also, I do reread old LJ entries.
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Thu, Mar. 25th, 2004 07:44 pm (UTC)I used to shelve all the fiction together (romance included), but right now I've got sci-fi/fantasy, romance, general and YA. Of course, it may change sometime during experimentation. I'm still debating on separating HC and TPB... I've got non-fiction by subject and graphic novels with my manga artbooks. Except Sandman -- Sandman gets a pretty display shelf in my display bookcase (the series, the two Death ones, Sandman Companion, Dustcovers, signed Death: High Cost of Living, signed Stardust). Sigh. I shoudl stop collecting Neil Gaiman stuff -- I have two copies of Stardust (one in HB, signed, and one the illustrated version).
Hee hee. I always have fun going to libraries and bookstores and kind of figuring out their classification system -- the Mc/Mac and M question, is Jennifer Crusie in general or romance, what about the Mira reprints, where are the anthologies, etc. etc. I am such a dork.