January 22, 2012 by lizzysiddal
Just popping in to say the new shelves are here and that I’m busy building my library.
Now, if someone can tell me how to make a time-lapse video like this one, I may be able to share the experience at a later date.
Thyme Running Out - Panama Oxridge
The Cleansing Flames - Roger N Morris
Next World Novella - Matthias Politycki
Talking Heads - Alan Bennett
Death At Pemberley - P D James
Blow on A Dead Man's Embers - Mari Strachan
The Silent Angel - Heinrich Böll
Carsten The Trustee and Other Stories - Theodor Storm
Selected Writings - Heinrich von Kleist
Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane (Readalong Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3
Splithead - Julya Rabinowich
Therapy - Sebastian Fitzek
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine - Alina Bronsky
The Beauty Room - Regi Claire
Vivaldi and the Number 3 - Ron Butlin
My Mother's Lover - Urs Widmer
Fighting It! - Regi Claire
Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
Via Delle Oche - Carlo Lucarelli
The Damned Season - Carlo Lucarelli
Carte Blanche - Carlo Lucarelli
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick De Witt
Snowdrops - A D Miller
The Pledge - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Crime - Ferdinand von Shirach
The Sense of An Ending - Julian Barnes
The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Noir - Robert Coover
The Stillness of the Sea - Nicol Ljubic
Down the Rabbit Hole - Juan Pablo Villalobos
On Canaan's Side - Sebastian Barry
Dead Sharp - Len Wanner
The Taint of Midas - Anne Zouroudi
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
The Break - Pietro Grossi
The Duel - Anton Chekhov
The Duel - Heinrich von Kleist
Lucinella - Lore Segal
The Dark Vineyard - Martin Walker
Gillespie and I - Jane Harris
The Possessions of Dr Forrest - Richard T Kelly
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
CIty of Dreadful Night - Peter Guttridge
Shadow Sister - Simone van der Vlugt
A Far Cry From Kensington - Muriel Spark
The Foxes Come At Night - Cees Nooteboom
The Assault - Harry Mulisch
The Tea Lords - Hella S Haasse
Tomorrow Pamplona - Jan van Mersbergen
Next World Novella - Matthias Politycki
The Water Theatre - Lindsay Clark
The Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton
Night Waking - Sarah Moss
The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi - Charles Dickens
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obrecht
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Law and Peace - Tim Kevan
Baby Barista and The Art of War - Tim Kevan
An Uncertain Place - Fred Vargas
Irretrievable - Theodor Fontane
Elif Batuman - The Possessed
Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
Great House - Nicole Krauss
A Dark Anatomy - Robin Blake
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives - Lola Shoneyin
Hector and The Secrets of Love - Francois Lelord
Dark Matter - Juli Zeh
Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes - Daniel Kehlmann
Wondrak and Other Stories - Stefan Zweig
Flypaper - Robert Musil
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Liberation of Celia Kahn - J David Simons
Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism - Hans Fallada
Bluebeard - Angela Carter
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois - G K Chesterton
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
A Short Cut to Paradise - Teresa Solano
Chocolate Wars - Deborah Cadbury
The View from Castle Rock - Alice Munro
Everything and Nothing - Araminta Hall
The Credit Draper - David J Simons
Carte Blanche - Carlo Lucarelli
Steal You Away - Niccolo Ammaniti
The City and The City - China Mieville
The Consorts of Death - Gunnar Staalesen
Hotel Du Lac - Anita Brookner
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The London Train - Tessa Hadley
I LOVe that video! So how do you organize your shelves? Right now I’m doing it by year ie. – all the books I read in one year get shelved together. Maybe, because I often remember books by where my life was at when I read then.
This can (and will) all change. Maybe I will sort them by color, or by size, or … endless possibilities.
Have fun!
I’m working on my library as well. We bought great shelves years ago but I’m reorganizing it a bit at the moment. Lots of work, hey! But interesting to do, since it’s all about books
Good luck with organizing!
Adobe Books in San Francisco did this a few years ago; I was lucky enough to wander in by chance while it was happening. Someone took some photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mermaniac/1473992/