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taharielSo tonight I finished reading a book I only picked up from the post office this morning, which I totally loved, and have possibly in a fit of crazy ordered the next three books as well, despite not knowing if I will continue to love this series but feeling that if I have to wait between books I might DIE, you guys. (For those interested, the series in question is the Mary Russell series by Laurie R King, which is the best sort of Mary Sue Sherlock Holmes pastiche that totally plays on my deep intellectual attraction to the character and my abiding physical lust for The Cumberbatch. Every time Mary and Holmes have a particularly good scene together I squee on the inside. And possibly on the outside. A little. DON'T JUDGE ME OKAY I LOVE IT)
| ALSO THEY TOTES GET MARRIED ALSO DON'T JUDGE ME OKAY |
ANYWAY. What I actually intended to post about was the difficulty of clearing ones bookshelves when your favourite kind of reading is often rereading, and there are an awful lot of books you love enough to keep.
Those who have been to my flat will know that I own an entire (big) wall of books, and that they are double- and sometimes triple-stacked as it is. I went through tonight to find books I no longer want and found four I was willing to part with.
FOUR.
I have a disease. It is called bibliophilia and the only cure is MORE BOOKS. Eventually I will have to start stacking them around the room, and then they will collapse on me one day and I will die, and it will be like the Death of a Thousand Cuts except it will be the Death of a Thousand Papercuts, and I only hope that a really good book lands open in front of my face as I lie there trapped so that I don't get too bored while I slowly suffocate.
What have you been reading lately, oh mighty flist? Any recommendations for a voracious bibliovore?
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Date: 2011-03-22 09:24 am (UTC)other than that I keep buying books, I keep stacking them, I'm running out of shelves and need to get new ones or stack them on the floor. and the death you described would be heavenly*g*.
right now, I'm only reading stuff for me exam._. bit boring actually.
but I gotta start Stephen Fry 'making history' soon, also for my exam, but it's a good one^^
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Date: 2011-03-27 10:58 pm (UTC)Sorry for late reply- no lj notifications :( just found this whole batch of replies D:
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Date: 2011-03-28 01:58 pm (UTC)yes only one book ever. I've kept all the others. I'm really really bad at giving books away. ergo my huge collection.
(no worries, I've got stressful times anyway)
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Date: 2011-03-22 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-27 11:00 pm (UTC)Sometimes I try to persuade myself I no longer love my book, and that it needs t go away on holiday to the sunny vacation spot of Charity Shop. But then I realise that I cannot afford to purchase expensive holidays for my book, and so i put it back on the shelf, where it will have to work a five-day week like the rest of us.
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Date: 2011-03-22 07:55 pm (UTC)That you can bear to part with any books at all is impressive :D
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Date: 2011-03-27 11:01 pm (UTC)Some books are Too Dire To Keep. I also suffer from excessive optimism when buying books which trick me by having a good cover-copy writer, who is not the same person as the internal writer and therefore has no actual bearing on the quality of the book itself. Then it makes me sadface :(
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Date: 2011-03-22 10:37 pm (UTC)IDK, I'm weird and like to keep a few books/films without romance, and Sherlock Holmes is one of those. Well, the books, bc I have no caveats about romance in the new BBC Sherlock.:D Maybe I'm turning into a misanthropic old lady, bc nowadays at the first hint of romance I groan and swear at the author for being a freaking sap. /OT /also hypocrisy
Um, I always recommend The Wasp Factory to everyone, Iain Banks should totally pay me, I could have bought a yacht by now.:)
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Date: 2011-03-27 11:04 pm (UTC)I am too normally for classic!Holmes, but there's something really wonderful in indulging in romanticising him, too, in much the same way as I would inside my own head but better written and with better historical accuracy. Mostly I really like older, genius protective men, and this book hits all my weak spots. It really is good, though - it's not just a Mary Sue book, it's well-written and the romance is not heavy-handed but almost absent. Very lightly and wonderfully handled. Plus in just the first book there is no outright romance.
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Date: 2011-03-23 01:09 am (UTC)I do sympathize with the inability to clean the bookshelf however. Even books that I didn't love the first time I think, "perhaps I would like this a second time?" and read it again!
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Date: 2011-03-27 11:05 pm (UTC)I collect books. And clothes. And DVDs. And... My flat is full of stuff, unsurprisingly, BUT I LIKE MY STUFF. and as I have no other half there is nobody to complain about it, hah! I win, universe :D
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Date: 2011-03-24 12:46 pm (UTC)And I know how that goes. I always end up rereading books when I reorganize my bookshelf. I always end up sitting on the floor surrounded by books and reading them.
I'm reading a book about Bernard Spilsbury right now which is really interesting.
And those books sound really good. Have you ever heard of the Enola Holmes series by Nancy Springer? It's his younger sister. They looked really good, but I've never gotten around to reading them.
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Date: 2011-03-27 11:07 pm (UTC)Twenty-five of those were books.
My biggest problem is when I try to lend people stuff I tell them all about how awesome it is to make them want to borrow it but theni remember how awesome it is and then I want to read it and not lend it to them. It is A Problem.
Sorry for late reply- no lj notifications :( just found this whole batch of replies D:
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Date: 2011-03-27 11:50 pm (UTC)It's okay. Happy birthday by the way! Hope you had a good one. Are you going to be able to make it to the next Merlin meetup?