Member Michael_P

About My Library

"...The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing."
- "Franny and Zooey" J.D. Salinger

BLOG:
http://classicsandcheese.blogspot.com/
and
http://promotestlpoetry.blogspot.com/

Pictures:
http://www.classicsandcheese.com/den.html

Just to give you an idea of my shelf situation:
- I have six bookcases in my den/study/computer room. Four of them nearly touch the ceiling. The other two are approximately five-feet high.
- I have three bookcases in the spare bedroom. Two nearly touch the ceiling, while the third is slightly higher than waist high (three shelves).
- In the bedroom, I have two bookcases that consist of only two shelves each.
- In the living room, I have one bookcase, shoulder-high with three shelves.
- In the downstairs spare room, I have a twin of the bookcase in the living room.
- Through-out the rest of the house, books are just randomly stacked, i.e., "Hey, there's a clear spot! Put them there!"

Initially my problem was running out of shelf space. Now my problem is that I'm running out of wall space to put new bookcases. I need to buy a bigger house.

Personal Website:
http://www.classicsandcheese.com

About Me

"So many books, so little time."
I am a LibraryThing Purist - these are only books that I own.

BLOG:
http://classicsandcheese.blogspot.com/

Personal Website:
http://www.classicsandcheese.com

What I've been reading:
http://www.classicsandcheese.com/books/recentlyread.html

Location

St. Peters, Missouri

Homepage

http://classicsandcheese.blogspot.com/

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Currently Reading

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman

Favorite Authors

Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Herbert, Brian Hodge, Stephen King, D. H. Lawrence, H. P. Lovecraft, Sylvia Plath, Mickey Spillane, Peter Straub, J. R. R. Tolkien, Margaret Weis, William Butler Yeats

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Mid Rivers, Borders - St. Peters

Libraries: St Charles City-County Library - Middendorf-Kredell Branch, St. Louis Public Library - Central Express

Member Connections

Friends

AndrewsMcMeel, bluetyson, dhaupt, Ganeshaka, kelrrific, lsepulveda, MichelleHoover, sensitivemuse, sussabmax, WilliamButlerYeats

Interesting Library

9days, ablachly, alaskabookworm, amandaellis, amysisson, Angie5x5, AzViaTx, BrandonSanderson, buchleser, capnk8, Cascades, castlen, ChrisRiesbeck, darkheart69, DaynaRT, Ganeshaka, goth_marionette, jchines, jeffrushton, jenreidreads, johnandlisa, johnnyapollo, kelrrific, LisaLynne, littlebookworm, lovejunkie, lstover, markhagner, melannen, mollishka, PhoenixTerran, piece-of-mind, QueenOfDenmark, rebeccanyc, reecejones, rwhe, Sakerfalcon, Scottneumann, sensitivemuse, skelly, skstarwars, sonyagreen, stellar_dust, susiebright, SylviaPlathLibrary, TheMadTurtle, WilliamButlerYeats, zodiacdeb

Contacts

kelrrific