The blog of Luther M. Siler, teacher, author and local curmudgeon
On one hand, this picture is slightly misleading, because I’m only about 50 pages into The Will of the Many and it’s a doorstop. On the other hand, I also read Laura Samotin’s The Sins on Their Bones and it’s not in the picture because it’s an ebook. So we’ll call it even.
Book of the Month is me having a stroke because I have no idea what the Book of the Month should be. This was a great set of books.
My goal is to have every book on this shelf that isn’t part one of a finished series read by the end of this month.
If you’ve been around here for any length of time– five days would do it– you have certainly seen at least a variant of this picture, my four Nice Bookshelves that are in my living room and are currently dedicated at least mostly to series fiction. The bottom shelves are an exception, partially, but whatever.
A few weeks ago I discovered what I thought was a spectacular sale at the furniture store I worked at– not quite, but almost, half off of these exact same bookshelves. So this has happened:
Hello, Gideon. Hello, The Boy’s toes.
So we’re back to having seven bookshelves in this room again, which I … think is probably the end of it, because of the extra room the sectional takes up compared to the sofa we had before? But who knows. At any rate, these are not precisely identical to the bookshelves we had before, because they weren’t on sale– these come unassembled, and that’s why they were cheaper. That rather tedious process has been my job for the last few days. That said, once put together, they look identical, and they’re quite solidly put together as well– these are absolutely not Wal-Mart $40 specials like the other bookshelves in the house and I have no reason to not believe they’ll last just as long as the ones we spent more money on.
We used my wife’s nice big new car to deliver a shitton of styrofoam and cardboard to our local recycling/hazardous waste facility today and I’ve got all the shelves where I want them. I have two days of vacation left and by the time school starts back up I want my books organized properly again. Right now the theme is “only fiction in the living room” and “only nonfiction in the library … other than the leatherbounds,” but we’ll see.
I’ll post more pictures once everything is properly organized.
Book of the Month is Pierce Brown’s Dark Age, although I could probably just say “The second Red Rising trilogy” and be done with it. Also, this is clearly an entire shelf of books all by itself and how the hell are there still so many unread books.
Yeah, okay, that looks like a lot, and I’ve broken my vow by ordering both volumes of Shōgun, but have you seen … my other unread books?
I made significant progress this month, I swear I did, but hell if it looks like it.
Not much to say today, so have a picture of Gideon and Jonesy enjoying a sunbeam:
This doesn’t look like much, by my standards, but I started a Sarah J. Maas book on January 31st that ate up the first week of February and I’m only about 70 pages from the end of The Sea Watch, so if a couple of things had shifted around the pile would look a lot bigger.
Book of the Month is a three-way tie between Against the Loveless World, Light from Uncommon Stars and Morning Star, because it’s my blog and I can do that.
Not a whole lot different from last time— and I’ll point out that thus far I haven’t broken any of the rules of my new reading projects, since RJB’s The Tainted Cup was pre-ordered the second I heard about it several months ago– but you’ll see tomorrow that I’ve done a fair amount of off-shelf reading in February. The one that is edges-out is Elizabeth May’s To Cage a God, which was the first book I got as part of my new Illumicrate subscription. I thought about doing a whole post about the box and didn’t end up doing it; maybe next month. But the book itself is gorgeous.
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