Thursday, September 21, 2006
Embarrassing Myshelf
On her blog this morning, Brenda Coulter offered to reveal the contents of her two seven-foot bookshelves. Pick a bookshelf (1 or 2), pick a shelf (1 thru 7), and a starting point on the shelf, and she'd let you know about the five books that led her to. I enquired about the 4th book from the right on five shelves of bookshelf two.
She suggested I help start a meme on this by offering to reveal the contents of my bookshelves, too.
Here goes: Bookshelves 1 and 2 have three shelves accessible, Bookshelf 3 has four. Books aren't stacked neatly, so tell me how many to skip and whether to start from the left or the right side of the shelf. (Shelf 3 of Bookshelf 2 is the only one shared with Dina.) I also have a pile of books across the room.
And then there's the DVD-shelf. The equivalent of six shelves (boxes piled up on the shelved DVDs). Pick shelf, start number, left or right.
So, who's first?
She suggested I help start a meme on this by offering to reveal the contents of my bookshelves, too.
Here goes: Bookshelves 1 and 2 have three shelves accessible, Bookshelf 3 has four. Books aren't stacked neatly, so tell me how many to skip and whether to start from the left or the right side of the shelf. (Shelf 3 of Bookshelf 2 is the only one shared with Dina.) I also have a pile of books across the room.
And then there's the DVD-shelf. The equivalent of six shelves (boxes piled up on the shelved DVDs). Pick shelf, start number, left or right.
So, who's first?
Labels: Books, Brenda Coulter, Memes
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Brenda Coulter, at 3:04 PM
The last 5 books on Shelf 4 of Bookshelf 3:
Resist or Serve: The Official Guide to The X Files, Volume 4, by Andy Meisler. Picked it up from Waldenbooks for $2.99.
The Death of Superman. Graphic novel. Gift from my dad, IIRC. Haven't read it, but now that I've re-located it, I will.
The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes, by Phil Farrand. Covers seasons 1-4. One of two copies of this book I own. Bought the second at St. Vincent's a while back. Free to a good home, if anyone's interested.
Writing Mysteries, by Margaret Lucke. Bought at Powell's for $4 off the cover price. Good info, if a bit oversized.
How to Solve a Murder, by Michael Kurland. Purchased at Powell's same time as the Lucke book, for about half price. Never read. Ought to have good forensic info for a detective working in the early- to mid-90's. Might be useful in figuring out who killed Superman (cross-reffing the X Files books to rule alien or paranormal activity in or out...).
Who's next?
Resist or Serve: The Official Guide to The X Files, Volume 4, by Andy Meisler. Picked it up from Waldenbooks for $2.99.
The Death of Superman. Graphic novel. Gift from my dad, IIRC. Haven't read it, but now that I've re-located it, I will.
The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes, by Phil Farrand. Covers seasons 1-4. One of two copies of this book I own. Bought the second at St. Vincent's a while back. Free to a good home, if anyone's interested.
Writing Mysteries, by Margaret Lucke. Bought at Powell's for $4 off the cover price. Good info, if a bit oversized.
How to Solve a Murder, by Michael Kurland. Purchased at Powell's same time as the Lucke book, for about half price. Never read. Ought to have good forensic info for a detective working in the early- to mid-90's. Might be useful in figuring out who killed Superman (cross-reffing the X Files books to rule alien or paranormal activity in or out...).
Who's next?
This is a great meme ... and I want to know what are Books 3 - 8 from the right, on the top shelf of Bookshelf 1. (I hope I did that right. It was more confusing than I thought it would be when I tried to type it).
I'm game, even though 3-8 is six (math is weird).
#3 Prophet, hardcover, by Frank E. Peretti. Back when he used his middle initial. Kept getting confused with Frank Peretti the dentist, I s'pose. Plotline was a little obvious as I recall. Took me a couple false starts to get through the book.
#4-5 This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness, separate trade paperbacks, both by Peretti (since you can get a 2-in-1 book (or even 3-in-1 with Prophet) I cut you some slack on this one). Crossways 23rd and 3rd printings; both replaced books lost in a flooded basement. Have heard these haven't aged well, may have to revisit the spiritual warriors someday.
Switching from vertically aligned books to several piled on top...
#6 The Restaurant at the end of the Universe, by Douglas Adams. Harmony Books hardcover book-club edition. $1.99 wherever it was I bought it. Not as good as Hitchhiker's, but the best of the rest, IIRC.
Between books six and seven was a Lane County (Ore.) Voter Registration postcard. It's not a book, but I thought I'd be thorough.
#7 Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, as told to Scott Adams. In hardcover. Bought for the Dilbert cartoons, not the management advice.
#8 The Black Throne, by Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen. Hardcover, published by Baen Fantasy. Quite disappointing as I had expected a good read from Mssrs. Z and S. Anomalous, I'm sure; which is why I've held on to it.
(To the direct left of book 5 are books 1-7 of the Left Behind series in trade paperback. All gifts.)
Who's next?
#3 Prophet, hardcover, by Frank E. Peretti. Back when he used his middle initial. Kept getting confused with Frank Peretti the dentist, I s'pose. Plotline was a little obvious as I recall. Took me a couple false starts to get through the book.
#4-5 This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness, separate trade paperbacks, both by Peretti (since you can get a 2-in-1 book (or even 3-in-1 with Prophet) I cut you some slack on this one). Crossways 23rd and 3rd printings; both replaced books lost in a flooded basement. Have heard these haven't aged well, may have to revisit the spiritual warriors someday.
Switching from vertically aligned books to several piled on top...
#6 The Restaurant at the end of the Universe, by Douglas Adams. Harmony Books hardcover book-club edition. $1.99 wherever it was I bought it. Not as good as Hitchhiker's, but the best of the rest, IIRC.
Between books six and seven was a Lane County (Ore.) Voter Registration postcard. It's not a book, but I thought I'd be thorough.
#7 Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, as told to Scott Adams. In hardcover. Bought for the Dilbert cartoons, not the management advice.
#8 The Black Throne, by Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen. Hardcover, published by Baen Fantasy. Quite disappointing as I had expected a good read from Mssrs. Z and S. Anomalous, I'm sure; which is why I've held on to it.
(To the direct left of book 5 are books 1-7 of the Left Behind series in trade paperback. All gifts.)
Who's next?
Who's next? Maybe someone who can DO MATH!
Very interesting. Your first four are also on my bookshelf, though the Perettis belong to my husband.
Very interesting. Your first four are also on my bookshelf, though the Perettis belong to my husband.
No, I told you to start the meme. I was delegating, get it?
;-)
So, tell us about the last five books on the last shelf of the last bookcase.