Whats on your Bookshelf?

[Lady Ravyn]

oh, god, on my bookshelf? i gotta go look...

okay, besides a bunch of picture books, animorph book, dear america books, nancy drew and little house on the prairie books, i have:

Non-Fiction

a couple Vatechisms
a Bible
Book of Saints
Who's Who in Mythology


General Literature

Anne of Green Gables
The Time Machine
O'Henry's Short Stories (you know, the gift of the magi, etc.?)
Ruby in the Smoke
Secret Garden
Little Princess
Huckleberry Finn
Black Beauty
King of the Wind
Visions of Sugar Plums
Darcula
Frankenstein


Tolkien

LotR
The Hobbit
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Pearl
Sir Orfeo
Languages of Middle-earth
Guide to Middle-earth


Fantasy that i've read

The Wayfarer Redemption, Starman, and Hades Daughter by Sara Douglass
Rhapsody,Prophecy, Destiny and Requiem of the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon
Veil of a Thousand Tears by Eric Lustbader
Squire by Tamora Pierce (i used to have Wild Magic too, but I lent it to a friend and never got it back )
Sword Dancer, Sword-Singer, Sword-Maker, Sword-Breaker,Sword-Born, and Sword-Sworn by Jennifer Roberson
Demon in my View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman


Fantasy that i haven't read

The Adept by Katherine Kurtz
Green Rider by Kristin Britain
Mirror of Dreams by Stephen Donald
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
The Demon Awakens by RA Salvatore
Sorcery Rising by Judith Fisher
Dragons of a Vanishing Moon
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey

[Earniel]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
at least give us a ngeneral idea of what you have on there...

Alright then.

This is about what I could fit in my own bookcases, the rest I had to move downstairs.

Tolkien-related:
- LoTR
-The Hobbit
- HoME (complete-woohoo!)
- Finn and Hengest
- Roverandom
- Letters
- Silmarillion
- UT
- Bored of the Rings
- Hildebrandt brothers: the Tolkien-years
- David day's Tolkien's Bestiary

Cats:
- Cat world (Desmond Morris)
- 8 other cat books on behaviour, race and keeping

Terry Pratchett:
- Near complete Discworld-series (missing: Last Hero, Maurice and his educated rodents & Wee Free Men)
- Discworld companion
- Bromeliad trilogy
- Johny Maxwell trilogy
- Strata
- Carpet People

Sci-fi:
- 4 books on Star Trek: guides and captain's logs
- around 12 Star Trek-novels
- Starwars: the making of Episode 1 & the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
- around 15 Star Wars novels
- Seaquest: official publication of the series
- Creating Babylon 5
- Farscape guide

Fantasy:
- Earthsea quartet - Ursula Leguin
- Wild Roads & The Golden Cat - Gabriel King (got them in Dutch, unsure of English title)
- 20 000 miles under sea, The center of the Earth - Jules Verne

Mythology:
- 10 books on Celtic mythology
- Scandinavian mythology encyclopedia: From Aegir to Ymir
- The Edda
- 1 book on norse myths
- Iliad and Odessey
- The journey of the 10 000 - Xenofon
- Mythology encyclopedia
- Myths and legends: Aborigine- Pre-columbian - Celtic- British- Middle Ages
- North-american folktales
- Russian fairy-tales
- book of werewolves

History:
- 3 books on Celtic art
- 2 books on King Arthur
- 1 book on Aztecs: culture and history
- 1 book on Pre-columbian art
- 9 books on the prehistory and dinosaurs
- 1 book on egyptian hieroglyphs
- 2 books on fossils and minerals

Other:
- 4 books on drawing (and painting) animals
- 2 books on origami
- 5 books on nature and animal behaviour
- Robin Hood
- Beowulf- Seamus Heaney
- 2 Sherlock Holmes-books
- 2 Garfield books
- around 20 Indiana Jones-novels
- my WWF-stamp-collection
- my post-card collection
- my maps of drawings
- 8 dictionaries (Dutch-French-English-Spanish)
- 2 filosofical books
- American gargolyes
- schoolbooks
- at least a dozen other novels and books

If you want to know a category in detail, ask me but I'm not going to type every title out now.

[hectorberlioz]

- Bored of the Rings

SGH was just telling me about that.
sounds good.

btw-I got a book called "Agnes Grey" by Anne Bronte!

[Earniel]

It's amusing enough. Though it didn't have me rolling over the floor laughing as I had hoped.

[sun-star]

Originally posted by Eärniel
It's amusing enough. Though it didn't have me rolling over the floor laughing as I had hoped.

Agnes Grey?!

[hectorberlioz]

Lol, I think Earniel was referring to "bored of the rings".

I try not to spam. but sometimes, I just dont have much to say, but I do have something to say, so I post it, and it ends up looking like spam.

[Linaewen]

HB, I think Sun-star realised that. See smiley?

Originally posted by Eärniel
Alright then.

This is about what I could fit in my own bookcases, the rest I had to move downstairs.
....

Cats:
- Cat world (Desmond Morris)
- 8 other cat books on behaviour, race and keeping

If you want to know a category in detail, ask me but I'm not going to type every title out now.

Is that the enthralling Cat Encyclopaedia?

I'd love to have as many mythology books as you. I don't have any as yet.

[Earniel]

Originally posted by Linaewen:
Is that the enthralling Cat Encyclopaedia?

That's the one.

Originally posted by Linaewen:
I'd love to have as many mythology books as you. I don't have any as yet.

It took me at least some 6 to 7 years of going to bookfairs and to the back shelves of bookstores to collect them all. And they're not all that good mind you, some overlap and only have the most famous myths, others go a little too much to the side of the fairy tales or christianised myths for my taste. Some have some very pretty drawings too. Yet without the sudden surge of general interest in celtic myths, I never would have found so much. But I'm pretty proud of my collection.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Eärniel

It took me at least some 6 to 7 years of going to bookfairs and to the back shelves of bookstores to collect them all. ... But I'm pretty proud of my collection.

Yeah, I'm just dying to see those lovely Norse myth pics.

I'm more proud of my Language book collection.

- 2 x Indonesian dictionaries
- Some Chinese dictionaries, and a tonne of textbooks
- 1 mini Swedish dictionary, a better one and a Swedish course on its way
- Colloquial Spanish Book
- Deutsch Heute ('German today')
-European phrasebook
- Greek-English dictionary
- Italian basic textbook
-Muslihat dengan cermin ('Tricked with a mirror'- Indonesian translation of Agatha Christie's 'They did it with a mirror')

And my Classic books:
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Pride & Prejudice
-Jane Eyre
-Wuthering Heights
-Great Expectations
-Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth
-Medea
(I must have lost some, I know I have more)

-Plus 8 Tolkien books, some fantasy books (Including His Dark Materials) and a few non-fiction titles such as
-Children of the Storm'- Children's memories of WWII
-Angkor Wat

[Earniel]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Yeah, I'm just dying to see those lovely Norse myth pics.

I'm more proud of my Language book collection.
[...]
-Angkor Wat

The pictures are from celtic myths mostly, I don't think my norse mythology books have much drawings. (at least I don't remember any) But if I recall correctly, at least one artist on the online Elfwood galleries has some pretty aquarels of a few Norse goddesses, I'll see if I may have saved a link to that gallery somewhere.

You should be proud on that language book collection, it's quite impressive.

Angkor Wat, have you ever seen it? Or Angkor Tom? From the pictures I've seen they're very impressive but pictures sadly don't always convey the feeling of places completely.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Eärniel
You should be proud on that language book collection, it's quite impressive.

Angkor Wat, have you ever seen it? Or Angkor Tom? From the pictures I've seen they're very impressive but pictures sadly don't always convey the feeling of places completely.

Thank'ee. The other day, I required a great amount of willpower to stop myself from buying this Dutch beginner's book, and some classics (though they're really cheap). I can't stand buying books that I don't get the chance to read for a while.

No, I've never been to Angkor. But I'll tell you more about it, if you want. (That would mean having to read the book though, another one on the shelf gathering dust).

[Earniel]

Oh, I don't let no-time-to-read stop me from buying or asking for books. Most of the books I get for christmas or my birthday (in may) are kept for the holidays in july. Also, I usually have exams not long after my birthday, so my mother strictly forbids me then to read anything else than course books and notes anyway.

And yet, I never have shortage of books to read. The number I want to read only seems to grow and grow. But that's what you get in a family where all 4 are reasonably avid readers.

Tell me about Angkor if you want to, but don't let it push you to read the book. My sister got a nice big book on it too, but I haven't read it yet (like so many others). I was just wondering whether you had seen it since, geographically, you're closer to it than me.

[hectorberlioz]

I spend so much money on books, its outrageous!
[ievery[/i] single time i get the chance, i buy books.
but the hardest part is choosing. i take more time choosing which books to buy than i do in choosing what clothes i want to buy,lol.

anyone else have this problem? Earniel? Lin?

[azalea]

I missed out on this the first time around!

I have my books Dewey Decimaled. I have my hardcover nonfiction:
Bible
dictionaries
Thesauruses (or thesauri?)
encyclopedias
psychology
language books
etiquette (an old Emily Post -- it's a very entertaining read -- no pun intended)
folk and fairy tales, including some old German ones (what does Hey, Die schonsten Fabeln mean?) and a nice old copy of The Arabian Nights, plus an old Grimm's with a beautiful fairy on the cover
foreign languages
science
cookbooks
art books (including Tolkien's Pictures)
music
essays and humor
plays/ drama
poetry
history
biographies

Then we have the hardcover fiction, alpha by author:
compilations, then Alcott, Anderson, Barrie, Baum, Pinocchio, Robinson Crusoe, Hans Brinker, Dostoyevsky (which I'm sad to say I haven't read any yet), Doyle, The Three Musketeers, Faust, The Wind in the Willows, Hawthorne, Hugo, Joyce, many Nancy Drews, The Water Babies, Kipling, L'Engle, Lenski, Melville, Milne, Orwell, Cyrano de Bergerac, Bambi, Encyclopedia Brown books, Heidi, Steinbeck, Dracula, Uncle Tom's Cabin (a VERY old copy), Stevenson (including an old Treasure Island with a nice painting of the pirates on the front -- they sure don't make many really nice looking book cover paintings anymore), The Hobbit, Tolstoy, Twain, Virgil, E.B. White (Charlotte's Web is one of my favorite books, and has one of the best ending lines ever), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Zola (those being some of the highlights)

Then on to paperback nonfiction (also Deweyed):
my reference books are on my little desk shelf, along with my copy of LotR, The Silm, and another Hobbit.
highlights are -- Bibles, some quaint old "current event" books (Nuclear Power on Trial, etc.), more folk and fairy tales (from Irish to Native American), bird books, parenting books, how-to books, movie guides, music books (including a Grateful Dead Anthology), tour guide books (kind of outdated, including one on India and one on Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific), cartoon anthologies, including some Pogo and old Peanuts, literature, including some Chaucer and a Sir Gawain and the Greeen Knight (not the Tolkien translation ), a Companion to Narnia, a Balzac in French (darn, I'm not that good at translating, a Le Petit Prince (that's more my speed), mythologies, Homer, Greek dramas, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Ibsen, The Annotated Mother Goose, T.S. Eliot, then more biographies, including an early Eddie Murphy one and an old copy of Elizabeth Taylor's autobiography, Little House series.

And finally the paperback fiction:
Douglas Adams, Watership Down, Lloyd Alexander, V.C. Andrews ( ), Austen, Burnett, Tarzan, Bronte, Agatha Christie, Susan Cooper, Roald Dahl, Dickens, more Doyle, Some Black Stallion books, E.M. Forster, Les Miserable (unabridged -- took me about two years to read, but it was excellent), more Kipling, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Stephen Lawhead, a great book called Uncle Silas, more L'Engle, Elmore Leonard (my husband's), C.S. Lewis, Pippi Longstocking, The Thorn Birds, The Outlaws of Sherwood, L.M. Montgomery, A Portrait of Jennie, The Boy Who Could Fly, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Poe, The Godfather, Catcher in the Rye, Sartre, Sayers, A Cricket in Times Square, Frankenstein, Gertrude Stein, Steinbeck, Mary Stewart, Gulliver's Travels, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Thurber, Tolkein (UT and yet another Hobbit), Vonnegut (my husband's, though I plan to read one to see if I like it), The Age of Innocence, T.H. White, Wilde, Woolf, Yep.

And then of course the various shelves with phone books, photo albums, yearbooks, scrapbooks, more cookbooks, a Disney poster book, and my 1977 Tolkien calendar by the Brothers Hildebrandt. I have a lot of money invested in Walmart shelving.

[hectorberlioz]

why azalea, you have a very impressive collection indeed....

[Valandil]

Azalea - I'm just happy to see that your husband gets to put a couple of his books on your bookshelf!

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
I spend so much money on books, its outrageous!
[ievery[/i] single time i get the chance, i buy books.
but the hardest part is choosing. i take more time choosing which books to buy than i do in choosing what clothes i want to buy,lol.

anyone else have this problem? Earniel? Lin?

Indeed. And I'm spending even more soon; my [expensive] Swedish dictionary has arrived at the bookstore! Yeah!

I know I should borrow them from the library, but it takes me forever to get around to reading them, so I feel guilty. But it's so nice to see all those spankin' new books on the shelf.

[Earniel]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
I spend so much money on books, its outrageous!
[ievery[/i] single time i get the chance, i buy books.
but the hardest part is choosing. i take more time choosing which books to buy than i do in choosing what clothes i want to buy,lol.

anyone else have this problem? Earniel? Lin?

I've spend my share on books as well. But I don't have much difficulty with choosing. I usually knew pretty well which books I want. I am a bit picky with books, after all they're not always cheap, you have to be able to place them somewhere on a shelf (and with my stacked shelves, that can be a bit of a problem) and it took some paper and energy to produce that book. Besides that, it's rather pointless having near identical books on the same subject. So I seldom buy books on impulse. Unless I really, really want that book or when I'm not likely to see it again in a bookstore.

Though at times I can take some time when I want to decide which combination of potential books-to-buy will give the highest satisfaction within the limits of the money I have available at that time. Though generally I need more time to pick clothes.

Wow, Zales! That's quite a collection! And very varied too. "Die schonsten Fabeln" means something like "The most beautiful fairy tales".

[hectorberlioz]

hey! I just increased my Dostoyvsky collection!
my older brother sent me some of his(dostoyyevsky's) books for a christams present(a late one mind you )

anyway...

I now have.....

The Idiot
3 versions of crime and punishment
House of the dead
The gambler/bobok/a nasty story
notes from the underground
and a real tattered and torn "Brothers Karamazov"

[katya]

Have you read The Gambler, HB? I read it right about hte time I first read Crime and Punishment, which is cool because Dostoyevsky wrote it while he was writing C & P.