Some Holiday Shelfies
I’ll get back to regular posts next week but one of my readers asked if I had any shelfies to show of my collection. I took a few and will post them but these only represent a portion of all my books.
I’m lucky that my wife doesn’t mind a house full of books. Above are pics of my biggest individual collection, which is Robert E. Howard related. (The top shelf with the stuffed dog toy contains some SF/Fantasy encyclopedias and my inspirational shelf, which are books that I take down and read passages from when I feel the need to be inspired in my own writing. Favorite books, I guess you’d say.)
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More shelfies. These are the shelves with my fantasy collection. Normally they are well organized (alphabetical by author), but they’re messy now because I’ve been pulling a lot of books off the shelves to photograph and talk about here.
The top shelf on the right, which has a photo of my grandson on it, is all books about writing. The top shelf on the other photo is a continuation of my Friends’ books collection.
Note that my hardback fantasy stuff is elsewhere.
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A sampling of other shelves I have. Here’s a Koontz and King shelf and a classics shelf.
Over the years I’ve collected a very large number of books that I intend to read. Of course, I’ll have to live another 150 years to get to all of these but I never have a shortage of books to choose from.
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Most of my unread books are in 4 different TBR piles. WE have one that is mostly westerns and thrillers, one mostly nonfiction military and men’s adventure, and two that are mostly SF and Fantasy.
Last shelfie for now.
The one above with the red stuffed puppy is the primary one I pick from and I’ve posted some pics here of some of those books.
Charles Gramlich administers The Swords & Planet League group on Facebook, where this post first appeared. See all of his recent posts for Black Gate here.
Impressive!
I feel comfortable among all my books.
Wow! To paraphrase Willy Wonka, “So many books, so little time.” Not surprising that as a contributor to this site you have a large collection of physical books. My TBR collection is not nearly as large, hovering at somewhere under 150. I am not a fast reader so it is good that most of the books I pick up and read are from the early days when 180-200 pages was about the average. Of course, large used book sales and regular suggestions from this site tend to keep my shelves well stocked. (The Windy City Pulp & Paper convention a couple years ago was not helpful in “reading down” my collection). Thanks for sharing the pics, I enjoyed looking through them and noting the books I’ve enjoyed (Thomas Covenant & Cormac mac Art!). As it says on one of my t-shirts “It’s not hoarding if it’s books.” Thanks again for a wonderful article.
I like that quote “it’s not hoarding if it’s books.” I’ve talked about it with my wife and she always says that she doesn’t mind. She’s got quite a few books as well and grew up in a home with books.
Good t-shirt. ^_^ Definitely not hoarding, if it’s books. In fact, if shelved along the envelope walls of the house, it’s actually additional insulation– it’s like lining your house with a log cabin.
We’ve got so many of the same books, that is kinda weird.
maybe not if you read in a lot of different genres.
I do and I don’t. I almost read no non-fiction. But SFF, Westerns, Crime noir, pretty much anything with action and pulp-y goodness.