A Gentle Madness? - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T12:08:29Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:18162?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A18308&feed=yes&xn_auth=noVery good advice. I just wish…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-05-07:537324:Comment:324202007-05-07T16:12:00.611ZBill Criderhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/macavityabc
Very good advice. I just wish I could take it.
Very good advice. I just wish I could take it. I have cleared out all of my…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-05-07:537324:Comment:321572007-05-07T01:16:04.370ZKaryn J. Powershttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/karyning
I have cleared out all of my books as often as I have dropped twenty five pounds. Just like the pounds the books come back. Growing up, there were eight of us, always in a rental built for four, and yet every time we moved-we moved my father's books and my mothers collectables. I've moved twenty six times. Once nine times in eight years. So I don't keep books for very long. I have three floor-to-ceiling book shelves in the den. When they are full, I weed the lot until I have two or three empty…
I have cleared out all of my books as often as I have dropped twenty five pounds. Just like the pounds the books come back. Growing up, there were eight of us, always in a rental built for four, and yet every time we moved-we moved my father's books and my mothers collectables. I've moved twenty six times. Once nine times in eight years. So I don't keep books for very long. I have three floor-to-ceiling book shelves in the den. When they are full, I weed the lot until I have two or three empty shelves mixed in and start building them up again. When my poetry started getting published I had to make room for that. And I have a few authors whose work I hang on to, but the rest, like good fish and house guests never overstay their welcome. Nursing homes, surgical waiting rooms, pediatric cancer centers all have libraries in dire need of a good read. Pass it on before you pass on and then you can go in peace. Wow, this is my secret amibit…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-05-04:537324:Comment:312182007-05-04T11:33:06.912ZLaura Roothttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/mallard
Wow, this is my secret amibition too, rooms lined with floor-to-ceiling bookcases.
Wow, this is my secret amibition too, rooms lined with floor-to-ceiling bookcases. Oh, Patrick. Try more fiber i…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-05-03:537324:Comment:310972007-05-03T22:38:19.339ZJordan Danehttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JordanDane
Oh, Patrick. Try more fiber in your diet and move out to a nice barka lounger with a good reading lamp.
Oh, Patrick. Try more fiber in your diet and move out to a nice barka lounger with a good reading lamp. Right. You need something rig…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-04-07:537324:Comment:201212007-04-07T23:27:30.406ZBill Criderhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/macavityabc
Right. You need something right next door.
Right. You need something right next door. I'm not sure, but perhaps a g…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-04-06:537324:Comment:195092007-04-06T23:51:13.213ZBill Criderhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/macavityabc
I'm not sure, but perhaps a good 12-step program might help. I've often thought there should be one for people with a book habit.
I'm not sure, but perhaps a good 12-step program might help. I've often thought there should be one for people with a book habit. I've just joined a couple of…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-04-06:537324:Comment:194702007-04-06T22:07:51.418ZKent Morganhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Matlock
I've just joined a couple of days ago and decided to jump into this discussion. I don't know how to label myself. Here in my home office I am surrounded by books - reference books within reach, sports reference and sports coffee-table sized books on two shelves above my head, my sports journalism collection and favourite journalists (Hamill, Hemphill, Willie Morris, John McPhee, Bob Greene, etc.) on six shelves to my left and primarily books about books on another six shelves in the corner.…
I've just joined a couple of days ago and decided to jump into this discussion. I don't know how to label myself. Here in my home office I am surrounded by books - reference books within reach, sports reference and sports coffee-table sized books on two shelves above my head, my sports journalism collection and favourite journalists (Hamill, Hemphill, Willie Morris, John McPhee, Bob Greene, etc.) on six shelves to my left and primarily books about books on another six shelves in the corner. Some of these I actually have used when writing my sports column. On top of the credenza or on the floor are seven storage boxes full on hardcovers and PBs I eventually hope to sell. That's just in my office. The former master bedroom now has a folddown couch and several shelves full of baseball fiction and non-fiction; hardcovers in back, TPBs and PBs in front. Several boxes are on the floor. The former dining room has a three-door glassed lawyer's bookcase where I keep my best collectible hardcover fiction. Two five-shelf bookcases are filled two deep with more hardcovers. The heated sunroom now serves as a dining area, but it has space for several more boxes of baseball books. Now to my basement. The bedroom has a large shelf filled double-wide with crime novels. I'm trying to collect all the books listed in the 100 Favorite Mysteries and They Died in Vain. On that bookcase I also put PBs and a few hardcovers of books that have won or been nominated for mystery awards. A couple of other shelves are filled with ????. The large basement room houses my large sports fiction and non-fiction collection including several shelves of hockey, the rest of my hardcover and TPB fiction, my mystery reference section and entertainment that I keep near my Rockola jukebox and the thousands of LPs I never play. I also have two built-in bookcases designed to hold PBs. That's where I keep my collections of John D. MacDonald, Brett Halliday and other crime authors from days gone by. I don't know how many other boxes are on the couch and floor - maybe 25. I also keep my large magazine collection down there. Nothing in either bathroom or my living room. As we move to my unheated back porch you probably can find another dozen boxes. The garage had gorilla shelves filled with boxes along both sides and the end. I also have more than a few books at our family cottage on Lake Winnipeg. That's also where my old large-format Esquires are stored. And I can hardly wait until April 21 when one of the best sales in North America, the annual Chidren's Hospital Book Market, starts. So what do you think I should label myself? Believe me, the obscure diges…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-04-05:537324:Comment:189122007-04-05T19:43:20.256ZBill Criderhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/macavityabc
Believe me, the obscure digests from, say, Carnival Books, won't be there.
Believe me, the obscure digests from, say, Carnival Books, won't be there. Scanning the covers? Now ther…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-04-05:537324:Comment:188872007-04-05T18:49:11.298ZBill Criderhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/macavityabc
Scanning the covers? Now there's a job that would take a while.
Scanning the covers? Now there's a job that would take a while. That has me very curious. I'v…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-04-05:537324:Comment:188772007-04-05T18:01:24.965ZBrianLindenmuthhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BrianL
That has me very curious. I've never had that problem with LT since they are hooked up with so many online resources.<br />
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What are 90% books that LT cant find them?<br />
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Just curious
That has me very curious. I've never had that problem with LT since they are hooked up with so many online resources.<br />
<br />
What are 90% books that LT cant find them?<br />
<br />
Just curious