A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books | 
LibraryThing has a cool little feature that shows you, once you've catalogued your books, how tall they would be if stacked. My family's collection (in black) is apparently taller than even the tallest stone structure ever made (the Washington Monument)!
#UniteAgainstBookBans #fREADom
An enormous, shiny book on book collecting? Yes please!
I‘ve been visiting a friend in Colorado for a few days. She has a beautiful house that backs up to the National Forest, but no Internet connection. So, I missed posting earlier tags. Maybe, I‘ll try to back track. 🤷🏼♀️ But here is today‘s! #curiouscovers #gold #day12
For those of you who like Nicholas Basbanes, he is giving a virtual talk on Thursday. Information in link.
https://tamu.libcal.com/event/7132269?f=h
@LeahBergen @vivastory
I have been waiting for this documentary and it was worth the wait! People might say I‘m somewhat affected because I‘m moved by beautiful, old, and rare books and I‘ve read way too many non-fiction books about books including the tagged and The Book by Keith Houston as well as anything written by Alberto Manuel. Well, you don‘t have to wish you were an archivist or book dealer to love this doc. It‘s about booksellers and the people who love books
pickFinished on 3/9. This book is incredibly well researched. I loved the first half about those like Cotton who started collecting books centuries ago and through the 19th century. I enjoyed the 2nd half, though some of the chapters like Instant Ivy and The Blumberg Collection I wasn‘t that into. I adore old books with a sort of reverence, so it‘s a bit sad that the only way to have these kinds of treasures are with luck and beaucoup $$$. Pick for 👇
1. Currently reading A Gentle Madness. About forty pages to go!
2. The Animals at Lockwood Manor
3. I just shared a picture of my two cats, Fish & Annabelle.
@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads
pickFINALLY! I finished this behemoth this afternoon. I've only been reading this forever it seems like. Nonfiction book about the art of collecting first editions of books. I'm becoming interested in the subject, so I give it 4 stars. Otherwise, you might be overwhelmed and quit a few sentences into this book. 🤪 💕
1. Tagged book
2. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (didn't read much during January - Mom was really sick for two weeks, then I was sick for a week and a half.)
3. Nada - don't usually watch adaptations
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
@Eggbeater @Crazeedi
⭐️Reading A Gentle Madness. I‘ve owned it for years and what took me so long? It‘s such a “me”book and I‘m loving it.
⭐️My husband, my son, and my cats.
⭐️Out of the places I actually get to go rather than just dreaming of going? Door County, Wisconsin.
@MoonWitch94 #ThoughtfulThursday
@Taotev want to play?
#DearDecember #surprises Over time @Eggs @MrBook @cathipink expressed interest about how many books Littens own .I got a new bookcase so some rearranging was in order .So ,I decided to count.my guess was between 4 and 5k.Total :
5,902.😯Better not attempt to move.*3 hours later , I think I missed a room?!😂
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Anne Perry
2. Which of their own works they liked the best
3. About 250 physical books, about 5,000 ebooks
@Eggs #wondrouswednesday @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Day 5 of #GratefulReads is #nonfiction. Here are some interesting books from my shelves: Nancy Drew, Constantinople, books in history, WWII, and a polymath in search of Atlantis. Looking forward to reading these.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
#Day2 #7Days7Covers #Covercrush #Coverlove
To play along just post a picture of a book cover you love, no explanation required. If you‘d like tag someone else who you think would have fun with this. 😊
Thanks to @Amanda61 for the great #staycationintimeswap package. I'll have a good time opening my gifts!
#staycationintimeswap #sits @Chrissyreadit
Oh yeah, like we need more books!📚📚📚📚📚
Spent the last few days in huge fights to try & get real estate agents to do things like spell my name correctly on our lease, which they‘re refusing to do. I also have no idea where most of my stuff is (somewhere in India, the movers are delaying 😭😡😭) but we did the “scouting” trip to move the kitties and I will confess that much of that luggage was books! These are hiding in Mr GaD‘s office cupboards and make me inordinately happy!!!! 😊😊😊
#MarchIntoThe70s #WhatAFoolBelieves This fool believes that if she finds good books cheap at book sales that her shelves will magically expand to hold them all.😂🙄
#OldCoolBooks @Linsy posted this great photo challenge and giveaway .Check her original post for details. A great excuse to look through my oldies and have some fun!
Was SO excited .... until I realized they were all income tax reports. Yeah, thanks but no thanks!!! (At a furniture/ antiques area in Mumbai looking for a wooden folding screen to keep the kitties apart when they‘re finally at “visual greeting” stage in a few weeks). Clearly, I was focused...🤦🏻♀️
What do you do when you go to a Literature Festival then realize you‘ve got an internal transit with a really small luggage limit ....? Courier them home 😊😊😊😊😊
You‘re in Jaipur, at a Mughal palace. After the monkeys, elephants and “wow, look at that”, I ask you, what else am I going to do? (Go into bookstore. Get annoyed at the STUPID AND RIDICULOUS prices in bookstore. Also get annoyed at self for being silly enough to be annoyed that a book store in a tourist area is price gouging. Remember I live in this country and MY DATA WORKS SO TAKE THAT....! Google better bookstores and resolve to go there). 😊
1. Many places! I do have a reading nook filled with bookcases and stuffed animals too 🐘
2. Either. Drove myself nuts at Christmas looking for a receipt I‘d used as a bookmark
3. End of chapter is best but the end of the sentence will do in a pinch
4. Frequently both
5. Not unless my hubs insists
6. Several in various formats
7. Everywhere
8. Silently
9. Heavens no! That‘s a heresy
10. I keep it nicely
11. No way
12. @Ashley31 @Samwise_Gamgee
He started it. 😬
Looking for #recommendations! What are your favorite books about books? It could be fiction or nonfiction. It could be about #bookcollectors, #libraries, #bookbinding, #bibliomaniacs, #bookshops, or anything related.
I had to add a picture to this post so here is a stack of books chilling on the floor, waiting to move to my new apartment. 😊
Cozy bedtime story #selfie. Snow and ice outside. Candles and hot cocoa inside.
Me: I really should put some of these books away.
Also me: But I‘m reading them!!!!
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
#litsyproblems
“Book collectors, he stated categorically—and he was including himself—‘are buzzards who stretch their wings in anticipation as they wait patiently for a colleague‘s demise; then they swoop down and ghoulishly grab some long-covered treasure from the dear departed‘s trove.‘”
Ahh... #booksIalmostbought 😊😊😊😊 (taking a break from the storage unit sorting to wander through one of my favourite bookstores being Dymocks George St. I wandered out with a scary stack of books, mainly gardening and non-fiction. Now, back to errands. Someone tell me when the “holiday” begins ???
If you are looking for a curse to for your library to prevent stealing, let monks be your inspiration.
When I feel bad about the books on my shelves, I remind myself that at least I am not violating building codes... yet 😹
Happy National Book Lovers Day to all my fellow Littens! Here's a portion from my mystery bookshelves.
#NationalBookLoversDay #BookLoversDay #shelfie #mystery
1. An Australian expat in Mumbai, India
2. I'm going with all three of the ACOTAR books. While not the best books I've read, they broke a post-intercontinental move depression I didn't even realize I was in.
3. The Burning City
4. The Secret Garden
5. The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit
6. Tamora Pierce's February release and the final Throne of Glass book (so I can read the series!).
#letstalkaboutbooksbaby
Pretty sure the books invite friends over while I'm sleeping. They're inching closer and closer... 📚📚📚
