I saw this tag over at http://gregsbookhaven.blogspot.com/ and decided to join in. The tag was created by awanderingmind over on YouTube.
1) How many bookshelves do you have?
I have seven bookshelves in my bedroom but have just bought a set of narrow corner units from a charity shop for £2 each which my dad is going to turn into bookcases eight and nine! It's very exciting! They'll fit in the narrow gap behind my bedroom door and let me really sort my books! *happy dance*
2) How many books are there on your bookshelves?
I have over 1000 physical books. I have no idea of the exact number. I think about 600 are tbrs and the rest are ones I've read and wanted to keep.
3) How do you organize your books?
Firstly by genre. I have shelves for politics, fantasy, SF, Indie horror, apocalypse, zombies etc. Afer they are in genres it goes alphabetical by author. I'm also fanatical about keeping books together by size. I won't have my shelves looking like a city skyline just to keep series together! Mass market paperbacks are put on a different shelf!
4) What is the oldest book on your bookshelf?
The Hobbit would be the oldest written book as it was published in 1937 but my edition is from 2002 so that doesn't really count. I reckon the oldest book by editions I own would be Margaret George-The Autobiography of Henry VIII from 1986.
5) What is the newest book on your bookshelf?
Martha Wells third Murderbot book-Rogue Protocol, published this month would be my newest ebook. For actual paperbacks though, the newest release I've bought would probably be Jeff Menapace Widlife Reckoning which was published in July 2018. My recent purchases are of books that have older publishing dates but the last book that entered my home was JA Konrath's Grandma? which arrived last week.
6) What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
Stephen King's It, is a massive 1116 pages.
7) What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
I have a lot of cartoon books which I won't count. This one gave me trouble as Goodreads doesn't have the actual page number for a lot of them. I'm going to guess at a novella in a zombie series I follow but haven't read yet. A Very Fort Christmas by Rhiannon Frater.
8) What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
I'd have to go with horror as that is my favourite to read. I have 3 whole shelves just for zombies!
9) Have you done a bookshelf tour?
Is that where you do a video of you showing off your bookshelves on YouTube? Oh no, never going to happen! Chuckles is way too fat to appear on camera thank you very much! And I hate the sound of my own voice!
10) Go to a random number generator and talk about the book that corresponds with that number.
I just asked my dad instead as it was quicker that way. Randomly selected book was an ebook so try again! OK this time it was the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts. I still haven't read this or watched the film so I better get to both soon.
11) Do you have fan merch or any other decorations on your bookshelf?
At this moment no, but I am hoping to display a few of my action figures if I get everything looking nice. I have my Game of Thrones figures on non book shelves above my bed, and a box set of Doctor Who figures displayed. My Buffy, LOTR and Hobbit figures are in a box under the bed! I have a couple of bobbleheads as well-Angel and Tony Montana.
12) Show us your bookshelf!
Impossible on one post! When I get my genres sorted, I'll be posting a series of blog posts to show everyone what my new Book Cave looks like.
Wow, you have a lot of books. I have to get rid of most of the books I read. I don’t have space for them. I have to limit my TBR books to one shelf, or I have to pile them on the floor, which I don’t like doing.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
Even as a kid, I always had a lot of books! It was always an escape for me when friends weren't around! I do wish I had less as I fear I'll never read them all but I love looking around my Book Cave!
DeleteFun post. I have no idea how many books I have, but I do know I don't have enough shelves for them. :D
ReplyDeleteThat's always the problem isn't it! These narrow bookcases will fit nicely into my final corner in my room. It'll let me sort the rest of the genres in my room and have my Cave the way I want it.
DeleteThis was a fun post! It sounds like you have an insane number of books... zombies specifically, haha. Have you read The Forest of Hands and Teeth? Carrie Ryan, I think. I remember really enjoying the series, and I'm not the biggest zombie fan.
ReplyDeleteI only keep books that I want to read again, but I do have a lot of unread books on my shelves. My library has a "secret" basement where they sell all of the books they no longer keep on their shelves. Doubles and sometimes ARCs are available there for like a quarter or less. They have the library plastic covers, but they're easy to remove if you don't mind a little work and a lot of patience.
You could always take a lot of pictures of your shelves and post them individually. :)
Lindsi @ Do You Dog-ear?
I read the first Forest of Hands and Teeth book and liked it but if I reread it I might find it too slow now! Most of my zombie reads are fast paced and gory now! I'd never be out of that secret basement in your library! That sounds great!
DeleteI do plan to do a full feature on The Book Cave as soon as I'm finished sorting which I hope will be in the next few weeks! Just waiting on Dad to get the bookshelves put together, and then I can get sorting!
Oh wow, over 1000 books! I am so envious because I haven't owned anything like that many since my bookshop closed down. This days I probably have about two dozen paper books at any one time and about the same number of awaiting-reading ebooks on my kindle. I'd love to come visit your bookcases some day :-)
ReplyDeleteIf I win the lottery I'll be buying a compound with my own land and guest cottages or something and then all you guys can visit! Until then, well I will be posting photos of the finished Book Cave! My dad is to join all these corner units he bought into two bookcases on top of each other. Then I'll have a sorting frenzy to get things into genres. Once it is neat, photos will be shared!
DeleteIt is such a great feeling to get new bookshelves! I can usually fill it up right away and then need a new one before long. I can't wait to see what the book cave looks like :)
ReplyDeleteIt is, isn't it! The one space I had left in my room is a narrow gap behind the bedroom door and my dad found those units in a charity shop yesterday and thought he could join them together to make a two storey 'bookcase' from four of them to slot in there! I can't wait to get started!
DeleteThis is a fun tag! Yay for new shelves! And the third Murderbot book! And I had to laugh about your "city skyline" comment- I never thought of that but they do kinda look that way when they're all mixed together, don't they??
ReplyDeleteI keep wanting to nag my dad to get on with them but I'm showing restraint! I'm so fussy about the way I store my books-it's a bit like book OCD!
DeleteOh wow! You have a lot of books! You could do a photo book tour - I think that would be just as interesting as a video. New shelves would be amazing. I have plans for them but it'll be awhile.
ReplyDeleteI definitely need to photograph The Book Cave as soon as the sorting is done!
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