Comments on: My Ideal Bookshelf (?)

By: girldetective

girldetective — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:20:54 +0000

Khalil, I’m on Goodreads instead of Shelfari, and I gave up on ARCs a while ago–too many typos, plus, like you, often the book would come out in paperback and I’d still not gotten to it!

By: Khalil

Khalil — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:05:06 +0000

I have the library pile and the adanvce reader copy pile. Sometimes I am so bad with the ARCs that I don’t even get to them until after the book is out, which is SO not the point. I know I have at least 16 books in the library pile, and the ARC pile is even bigger Oh well, it means I never run out of reads I know what you mean about posting I rarely post in my blog about books because I’m always updating the library site, but I always post an end-of-year review. I need to get to that.Have you ever seen Shelfari? It’s a site that lets you upload your favorite books and to-be-read books, and then you can put a little widget on your blog. It’s pretty cool, but it can eat your free time, and then you’re like, I could have been using that time to read! Haha. *book nerd runs away*

By: girldetective

girldetective — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:51:58 +0000

Jennifer, I hated Angle of Repose, felt like the author didn’t have any empathy for the character of the wife, and that the narrator was such a creepy old man that I couldn’t have any empathy or sympathy or find him engaging to read about. But I loved History of Love, though I avoid the New Yorker, because I know that would end badly for me (piles and piles of unread magazines, reproaching me). I didn’t include any graphic novels or comic books, and those should be there, most probably the collected Sandman by Neil Gaiman.

By: Jennifer Blake

Jennifer Blake — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 07:50:49 +0000

Hello! Thanks for posting this — it turns out the editor/author of “Ideal Bookshelf” is a graduate of the school where I work — she’s amazing and I had no idea she’d done this. Thanks! Possession and Anne of Green Gables would definitely be on my list. Also, Andre Dubus’ Broken Vessels (non-fiction), Angle of Repose, and History of Love by Nicole Krauss would all make the cut I think but I’d also have to put the New Yorker subscription in there since in my current state, that’s really what I read! But reading about your reading inspires, so thanks!

By: carolyn

carolyn — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:03:39 +0000

dude, I oddly won that book on goodreads and it’s fantastic. I really love it.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:33:53 +0000

We bought one of the originals for my brother a couple of years ago when he got his Ph.D. The best part (for me) was that his bound thesis was one of the books we had painted into the piece.