I recently started a new series of posts on my Twitter asking a question of the day. The idea behind it is to get chatting more about book blogging and everything involved with being a book blogger.
I'll be showcasing answers to the questions in a series of blog posts here on www.JoLinsdell.com so we can develop the conversation even more and go into more detail.
Organising Book Shelves
Organise? I don't really have any system in place when it comes to organising my print books. The most I ever seem to do is separate fiction and non fiction. That said, I do keep books I haven't read yet on separate shelves to the ones I have read. Just makes finding a book on my TBR list easier.
One day I will go through all my books and organise them properly. Probably by genre and then author. One day... when I have a big enough book shelf to set them up nicely.
I currently don't have much shelf space which is one of the main reasons they aren't organised. It's more a case of where they fit on the shelves. I'm up to double rows now too.
I tend to get most of my books in e-format nowadays but I love looking at other peoples book shelves and let me tell you, shelf envy is real! I'd love to have a home library like some of the ones I've seen on YouTube, Instagram, and Pinterest.
I buy digital books these days but when I bought physical books I organized by subject/topic and genre. Organizing by color is beautiful but I’d probably never be able to find a book! @ReadingLadiesBC
I separate fiction and non fiction, that's all @nsfordwriter
It starts with my favorite book to my least favorite book. Books I have read and books I haven't read are separated. @owlbookworld
genre, but with a generous helping of how much I love the books and how likely I am to reread them..... @charlotteslib
My unread books are in alphabetical order by author surname. Problem is when I buy something new I have to re-arrange all the shelves to put it in the correct space @BookerTalk
Colour on one of them and size for the other one @Rach_thereader
I tried by color... looks great but drove me nuts when I wanted to retrieve a specific book.
I tried alphabetical, but, again... nope... all genres become mixed up.
I generally try to organize by fiction vs non-fiction, and then by genre.
On My Shelf is a series to showcase some of the books that are sat on my shelves. Each Sunday I randomly pick a book from my shelves to show you. Some will be books that are on my TBR, others will be books I've read in the past but that deserve a little love.
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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On My Shelf is a series to showcase some of the books that are sat on my shelves. Each Sunday I randomly pick a book from my shelves to show you. Some will be books that are on my TBR, others will be books I've read in the past but that deserve a little love.
OLD ENEMIES Francis Ackerman is America’s most terrifying serial killer. Brutal and cunning, he is ready to take his evil games to a new level. NEW THREATS Special Agent Marcus Williams cannot shake Ackerman from his mind. Yet now he must focus on catching the Anarchist, a new killer who abducts women before burning them alive. HIDDEN TERRORS The Anarchist will strike again soon. And Ackerman is still free. But even worse than this is a mysterious figure, unknown to the authorities - and his plans are more terrible than anyone imagines.
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On My Shelf is a series to showcase some of the books that are sat on my shelves. Each Sunday I randomly pick a book from my shelves to show you. Some will be books that are on my TBR, others will be books I've read in the past but that deserve a little love.
This week's pick
This week I picked The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (one of my favourite books of all time!).
The novel that scandalized Victorian England
In a London studio, two men contemplate the portrait of another—younger and more beautiful—man. Despite Lord Henry Wotton’s urging, Basil Hallward refuses to show his painting in public—there is too much of his true feeling for the subject in it. “I will not bare my soul to their shallow, prying eyes,” he declares. “My heart shall never be put under their microscope.”
Instead, it is Dorian Gray’s soul put under the microscope of this unforgettable novel. Influenced by the cynical, hedonistic Lord Henry, Dorian becomes infatuated with his own youth and beauty and wishes that his portrait would grow old instead of him. His wish comes true, but it is not just the passage of time that mars the painting—the wages of sin are recorded there as well. Freed from the physical toll of his debauchery, Dorian devotes himself to the pursuit of pleasure above all else. He turns on his friends, drives his lover to suicide, and engages in every vice known to man. To society, he remains as handsome and youthful as Prince Charming. In the painting, he is hideous. Too late, Dorian realizes that only one of these two images can be real, and a reckoning deferred is not a reckoning absolved.
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I thought I'd start a new series to showcase some of the books that are sat on my shelves. Each Sunday I'm going to randomly pick a book from my shelves to show you. Some will be books that are on my TBR, others will be books I've read in the past but that deserve a little love.
This week's pick
This week I picked Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno—now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones.
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared into the chest of a murdered physicist—he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy—the Catholic Church.
Langdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.
Despite promising myself I wouldn't add any new books to my TBR until I'd cleared some of those already on it, I did a book haul. NetGalley is just too tempting!
I also found an old suitcase I had in storage full of books. Some I'd forgotten I even had. Some I'm super excited about finding again. Some I've never read... yep more for my TBR.
Anyway this video is a book haul for all the old and new books I've discovered/rediscovered this week. Enjoy!
Also includes info about my upcoming webinar "Book Reviews: Why, What & How" that I'll be doing on 30th September 2016.
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In other news, I finally got round to setting up my page at Patreon. You can now show your support at: https://www.patreon.com/JoLinsdell I'll be developing it more over the coming weeks and adding more goals and rewards.
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