Comments on: Ode to My Bookshelf

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:02:26 +0000

I love books. I actually took a photo on my iPhone of this wall of books at IKEA because a whole wall of bookshelves, to store my books? Is my idea of heaven.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:13:29 +0000

I know, I know, I know. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Anne Shirley, etc. In trouble at school all the time for reading under my desk during class. I completely agree with our passion for stories and the way we make sense of the world through them.

I have to recommend that you visit fray.com – it’s a wonderful quarterly of true stories, submitted by folks like us. Created and run by Derek Powazek, a local SF dude who is very nice. I got a subscription last year for Christmas and just got issue 3 in the mail and had a jumping up and down in excitement moment in front of my cats and BF. Maybe you will like it too.

By: Rhi

Rhi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:27:05 +0000

I like books, too. I also love beautiful bookcases and I look forward to moving somewhere else so that I can have lovely bookcases filled with my lovely books.

By: Peter Varvel

Peter Varvel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:52:41 +0000

There have been a few times where I have been without a TV in my abode. I never minded, as long as I had my books (and music!).
Books that shape our character during childhood . . . I remain aware of – and grateful for – how ‘The Secret Garden’ taught me about the power of positive thinking.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:52:49 +0000

“Well, at least I still have books.”

This exact thought has comforted me more times than I’d really like to admit.

By: ChrisC

ChrisC — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00:12 +0000

I am a total book geek, too. (Obviously, based on my job). What I really wanted to say though is that this post made me realize that you’d probably like working here, too. Here’s our website — readingprograms.org I don’t know if we have any job openings now, but I’ll keep my ear to the ground for you

By: Locusts and Wild Honey

Locusts and Wild Honey — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:17:09 +0000

To books! Hear, hear!

I must say, I love, love, love reading on my phone but I still like the company of a few good tomes in my apartment. Now if I actually buy a paper book, it’s fetishized. It’s very very old, very very rare, or hopefully both. The cost per square foot of San Francisco real estate pushed me to it.

By: Marieka

Marieka — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:57 +0000

Great post! As someone who took it upon herself to write more book reports than anyone else in her fourth-grade class (and fifth-grade class too, come to think of it), I can really relate to your having been a bookish kid.

Most of my books are in storage too, but I’ll be liberating them the weekend after next. I’ve really missed them.

And I can sympathize with you on the glasses thing, oh yes.

By: jennifer in sf

jennifer in sf — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:54:36 +0000

One of the first things I did once I'd moved back to the west coast, and generally decided I wasn't likely to leave, was to retrieve the books. And even though they've been sitting in vaguely embarrassing giant piles since then (argh) I still love having them around. (You might also enjoy this wherein a very funny guy writes about reading Twilight at length. I have not actually read the book, but since I read this I feel I've read the far, far funnier version.)

By: heidikins

heidikins — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:49:39 +0000

Sigh. I love this. Everything about it.

xox