The Anchorage, Part 3

[Miss B]

Wellll, I got to a point where the floors of my closets were full of shopping bags of books, and I just kept buying more and more. Finally about 2 years ago I started donating to the local library, which gives me a tax deduction at the end of the year, and someone else gets to read the books. Some books, however, I would never give away, but most of them, not a problem.

 

[Dreamer]

I gave away a heap of my books and now wish I hadn't so for me I'll put up with the stacks on any flat surface available till such point as I have shelving for them

 

[Miss B]

Oh I still have at least a hundred computer/scripting related books I bought while getting my web designer certification. Those . . . well I'm not sure I'll ever get rid of all of them. The older ones probably, because newer versions of the books have been published with newer goodies. Some of them, however, I still use now and then as references, so they'll be here for a long time to come.

 

[Pendraia]

Give me a book any day there is never no room for more books lol

I figured when you get to 8 tall bookcases all overflowing with books it was time to do something. Unlike Miss B I do pay for ebooks but i also download free ones.

 

[Dreamer]

I figured when you get to 8 tall bookcases all overflowing with books it was time to do something. Unlike Miss B I do pay for ebooks but i also download free ones.

Heheh ran out of book case about 100+ books ago, not that that stops us from acquiring more lol Nah we don't need to use those chairs, just stack the books there...

 

[Terre]

I hope the Barnes & Noble in Lubbock hasn't closed. The Hastings is Clovis has though.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

I only have one tall bookshelf, which is stacked with double rows, as well as between the top of the books and the next shelf. Then I have three short bookcases, which are also stacked with double rows, and books stuffed into any open spaces above or in front of those books. The tops of those three bookshelves also have stacks of books on them. If I ever buy three tall bookshelves to replace these three, the new bookshelves would still be as stacked with books as the single tall one.

I'm a bit of a book snob, so they are all hardback books.

 

[Miss B]

I hope the Barnes & Noble in Lubbock hasn't closed. The Hastings is Clovis has though.

I don't know if they plan to close them all, I just know they closed the one near me, which was a very nice sized store with 2 floors. In fact, half of the top floor was reserved for the kids, and they often had folks come in and present some nice programs for the kids and their mothers (or fathers, depending on who brought them there). I don't recall it ever being empty enough for anyone to think they weren't making enough sales, but I can tell you this area is very costly as far as rental space goes, and they probably had come to the end of their 20-year lease. and whatever the increase would've been, was more than they wanted to spend.

 

[Terre]

Whereas the one in Lubbock was built less than ten years ago. They literally changed the center part of the South Plains Mall. Perhaps they got a really good deal on a long term lease to justify the expense.
B&N Store & Event Locator

 

[Miss B]

It's possible, and I doubt rent's as high there, as it is here in New York.

It looks like a nice store. Ours had a Starbucks right next door, and there was an entrance to it from within B&N right next to the checkout counters. Certainly made it easy for anyone to pay for their purchases, and then go into Starbucks and relax. I really miss it, but I'm getting used to the eBooks, so I'll miss it less as time goes on. ~sigh~

 

[StudioMartillo]

Did I ever tell you that I was conceived in City Lights Bookstore?
Probably not.
It's most likely the reason for my extraordinarily dire countenance.

 

[Terre]

Good morning.

 

[Miss B]

Unlike Miss B I do pay for ebooks but i also download free ones.

Oh I buy some now and then as well. Just bought one, and got a free one, about an hour ago. Once I find an author I like, I go after just about all the books that author has available.

 

[Mythocentric]

Nowt wrong with that Miss B. I love my Kindle and, like music I also love my author collections, though it can get a bit steep sometimes, e.g. 60 books by Tanith Lee and counting!

 

[StudioMartillo]

All this talk about Chocolate around here gave me an idea for a project to develop a 'sculpting' technique in Lightwave.
So here is my first 'foray'.

Bee Sweets, Enjoy

 

[Miss B]

Nowt wrong with that Miss B. I love my Kindle and, like music I also love my author collections, though it can get a bit steep sometimes, e.g. 60 books by Tanith Lee and counting!

Hmmmm, I'm not familiar with her books. I'll have to check them out.

 

[Mythocentric]

She covers a wide range of genre's Miss B from Sci-Fi through Horror and Fantasy including vampires, werewolves, etc. She was one of the few authors who could truly be described as crossing all boundaries and succeeding in all of them. For example, if vampires, with a very different twist is your thing I would highly recommend The Blood Opera Sequence comprising Dark Dance, Personal Darkness and Darkness, I. For a very different look at werewolves try Lycanthia.

 

[Pendraia]

Tanith Lee is a good author I have some of hers in real books. I found an author recently who made me laugh and ended up buying most. I like authors who can pull on my emotions...

 

[Mythocentric]

I've completed a collection of Tom Sharpe novels recently Pen! A very incisive satirist, a bit broad at times but hilariously funny. He was the author of Porterhouse Blue (with David Jason as the head porter) and Blott On The Landscape, both of which have been televised. Well worth digging out if you like your humour with an edge. This is his book list in series order of publication:


Piemburg, South Africa series

• Riotous Assembly (1971) ISBN 9780871131430
• Indecent Exposure (1973) ISBN 9780871131423

Porterhouse Blue series

• Porterhouse Blue (1974) ISBN 9780871132796
• Grantchester Grind (1995) ISBN 9780099466543

Wilt series

• Wilt (1976) ISBN 9780879517342
• The Wilt Alternative (1979) ISBN 9780394726212
• Wilt On High (1984) ISBN 9780099466482
• Wilt in Nowhere (2004) ISBN 9780099481737
• The Wilt Inheritance (2010) ISBN 9780091796969

Other novels

• Blott on the Landscape (1975) ISBN 9780879519278
• The Great Pursuit (1977) ISBN 9780879517335
• The Throwback (1978) ISBN 9780330260121
• Ancestral Vices (1980) ISBN 9780330266352
• Vintage Stuff (1982) ISBN 9780099435549
• The Midden (1996) ISBN 9780879519285
• The Gropes (2009) ISBN 9780091930905

I love Tanith Lee. Her characterisation and sense of place and time are almost poetic in their scope. I honestly don't think she ever truly wrote a poor book throughout her career!

 

[Pendraia]

I'll have to check them out...I like a good laugh. I'm very eclectic I'll read anything...I'm definitely not a purist who only reads good literature. The author I was referring to is Jana Deleon the Miss Fortune ones was the series that made me laugh. The Shay Archer ones were more like criminal minds and were quite different...I read those first and initially the Miss Fortune books I found initially hard to get into but the further I got the more addicted they just made me laugh...the main character works for the CIA and is supposed to be laying low in a backwater town in Louisana, she hooks up with two more mature ladies who used to be spies during Vietnam...the things they get up to are very funny. They kept me in hysterics...I literally couldn't put them down.