Books collections that is

You and your dirty mind!

Soooo, I did got me a third bookcase this evening (The wrong damn wood colour!) But this has enabled me to space out my books and not have to double stack them. Although, now they are all spaced out, it all looks a bit empty

Here I am! (unshaven, I'm going for the rugged manly look, it's not just cos I've been too lazy... honest!)

Now I've shown you mine I want to see yours because I'm nosey and curious and I'm not a cat so it can't kill me.

Post please!

Ok!

I live in disorganised squalor with two bookshelves, a great deal of mould and damp, and most of my books still in boxes.

One bookshelf:

(Edit - this is the last time I post any pictures on the forums. This is altogether too much work. I've completely distorted everything in my vain efforts to shrink it.)

Dark rum. The drink of Fain.

I spy Lewis Carroll on Fain's bookshelf. Awesome.

Nice books Fain

See that looks like a proper bookcase. Not like mine. I have this odd thing about having books all the same height, I can't count the number of hardbacks I've given away... only to later buy the paperback version

I'd post a picture of mine if my books weren't spread out through four bookcases, the floor of my room, several of my drawers where I was supposed to put clothing, and numerous boxes. I'll try typing a list up instead.

Okay, here are some of the books that are around my computer. I'd type up the rest, but I'm feeling a little lazy.


101 Things You Should Know How To Do - Michael Powell
A Basic History of Art - Janson
A Witch's Guide To Faerie Folk - Edwin McCoy
Algebra for College Students - Gustafson Frisk
All Women are Healers - Diane Stein
Baby Bargains - Denise and Alan Fields
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft - Raymond Buckland
Celtic Magic - DJ Conway
Coffey on the Mile - Stephen King
Crafting Wiccan Traditions - Raven Grimassi
Crafts for Baby - Alison Jenkins
Description - Monica Wood
Diversity: Strength and Struggle - Joseph Calabrese
Dragons, Unicorns, and Sea Serpents - Charles Gould
Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes - Jack Hamm
Essentials of Philosophy - James Mannion
Exploring Consciousness - Rita Carter
Faerielands - Brian Froud
From Here to Maternity - Connie Marshall
Holland's Grimoire of Magickal Correspondences - Eileen Holland
Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft - Denise Zimmerman
In the Shadow of the Shaman - Amber Wolfe
Infinity in Your Pocket - Mike Flynn
Kanji and Kana - Wolfgang Hadamitzky
Magical Herbalism - Scott Cunningham
Math for Mystics - Renna Shesso
Pagan Anger Magic - Tammy Sullivan
Physics: Principles and Problems - Paul W. Zitzewitz
Positive Magic - Marion Weinstein
Precalculus - Larson
Racial and Ethnic Groups - Schaeffer
Raising Witches - Ashleen O'Gaea
Real Energy - Phaedra & Isaac Bonewitts
Seeker's Handbook - John Lash
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos - John Briggs and F. David Peat
Shadows and Light - Anne Bishop
Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide - Sandra Ingerman
Teach Yourself Icelandic - Hildur Jonsdottir
The Art of ShapeShifting - Ted Andrews
The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells - Judika Illes
The Everything Paganism Book - Selene Silverwind
The Gifted Adult - Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
The Handy Math Answer Book - Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Thomas E. Svarney
The House of Gaian - Anne Bishop
The Human Perspective: Readings in World Civilization - Lynn H. Nelson
The Lore of the Unicorn - Odell Shepard
The Prose Edda - Snorri Sturluson
The Story of Philosophy - Bryan Magee
The Wolf - L. David Mech
The World of the Autistic Child - Bryna Siegel
What the Bleep Do We Know!? - William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, Jack Forem
Whisper from the Woods - Sandra Kynes

Isn't Icelandic supposed to be one of the toughest languages to learn?

Not really.

(It is, at least, reminiscent of the other germanic languages.)

EDIT: Saaga able to ninja me only because my internet crapped out while checking wikipedia to see if I was talking out of my arse

*hum*

And actually, Norwegian/Swedish would be your best shot at learning Icelandic: Finnish is from a different language group alltogether so it is of no help really.

EDIT: Heck, even English is closer to Icelandic than Finnish.

EDIT2: Compare: My name is... (Or I am called..)
Swedish Finnish Icelandic
Jag heter... Minun nimeni on... Èg heitir...

£10 from the Oxfam Furniture shop on the Streatham high road.

Fain's collection reveals the TRUE secret behind the typos.

(lush.)

Lack of camera. Books seen around room: collected works of O'Reilly, Paul Johnson's 'A History of the American People'. An entirely too large pile of schlocky Mercedes Lackey novels. 'Year of the Unicorn' (Andre Norton), a pile of CJ Cherryh paperbacks, 'The Poetics of Myth', a pile of Man Kzin War novels, the new SM Stirling trilogy (yet to read it), 'Anathem' (also have yet to read), a guide to Exile 3, a TCP/IP textbook, a CCNA textbook, a couple of Rumi translations, a schlocky Sumerian-themed romance novel, and 'The Atrocity Archives'. Others have been shoved into boxes or sold off - I ended up offloading a good portion of my collection on Uncle Hugo's back in the hometown through my father after GTFOing.

EDIT: Oh wait, here's an older picture.

Not seen: three more boxes of books and the lower two level of the shelves. This is shortly before moving out of my old apartment.

Oooh, I see an old MCSE book.

I could have sworn I had that one too, but I can only locate my IE4 book from that series.





Bargain! On the Norse theme... mine are from Ikea! £50 each.

It's actually a vintage MCSE book inherited from Dad. Dates back to the 90s.

Sadly my collection is divided between here at my apartment and back at home.

Yup, mine is from 1998.



Awwwww

My books are the second thing I unpack when I move, after the computer

...Ikea is Swedish, Caffrey.

Alright, I'll stop being a pest now.

My 'bookshelf' is the national library. I own practically no books. I borrow almost everything I read. For free. I save space and money. Yay!

What Caerulo said. I absolutely adore Singapore's national library system, and as a result, my bookshelf is almost empty of actual books.