#personal library

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 472

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s

Adam Rowe

Abrams 2023

Another new book from Abrams. We’ve gotten to the point in publishing where, if you’re like me and like large-format art books, you need to get used to the idea of buying them when they are released. Fewer and fewer publishers are taking the risk of releasing art books, and they are staying in print for shorter and shorter periods of time. So, when I heard about this book, I made a point of getting myself a copy, and I’m glad I did. While my preference in vintage book cover art leans more toward the pulp era, it is the 70s covers that I find myself the most familiar and nostalgic. Featuring some all-time greats—Frazetta, Vallejo, Elson, Emshwiller, Mead, the Dillons, et al—and divided into subject categories such as spaceships, cities and landscapes, plants, animals, aliens, fantasy realms, and cryptozoology, this is a beautiful and very welcome look at an incredibly creative, experimental, and occasionally ridiculous sci-fi decade.

[ginger-by-the-sea]

[the-home]

[sugar-plum-senpai]

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[ichoosechoasandbeingqueer]

📚My Personal Library

These are not stories I have written, just stories I love and recommend

What are we in the mood for today my love?

🌸 A soft/fluffy one shot? 🌸

💦 Dirty, naughty smut perhaps? 💦

❤️‍🩹 Need a little bit of comfort? ❤️‍🩹

🌻 Want to give some comfort? 🌻

⚔️ Or maybe you prefer some whump? ⚔️

📚 Looking for something a little longer? 📚

If you are looking so something written by ✨yours truly✨ then this is for you ❤️~ my masterlist

Enjoy your stay~❤️‍🔥

[sam-glade]

People seemed interested in my library and writing nook, so here's a bunch of pictures.

(requested tag: @macabremoons)

[thegoodmorningman]

Besides, if the Good Morning people think they're getting paid, I'll bleed them out in court. Good Morning!!!

[victusinveritas]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

[sage-green-kitchen]

You would know if I won the lottery because I would have all the Penguin Clothbound Classics

[deadpresidents]

Hi, I always enjoy your book suggestions and when you talk about books, have you ever posted a shelfie? I imagine it would be cool to see!

I have so many books that I don't have enough space for all the bookshelves that I actually need, so I think my fellow book lovers would be disappointed in how unorganized my library has become. My bookcases are overloaded and I gave up long ago on trying to keep the subjects organized the way I would like to. And, since I don't have enough space for more bookcases, I've had to get creative in how I store many of them. There are a lot of stacks in my home, and I actually removed the doors of a closet and use an entire closet and the cupboards surrounding it as a makeshift bookcase.

As for the bookcases that I do have room for, there are a bunch of them and they all look like this:

I do understand that that's not how bookcases are supposed to work, but that's what it's come to. The rest of the books that can't fit on the shelves are stacked just about everywhere in my home -- on tables and dressers and in closets. Pretty much everywhere besides the bathroom or the kitchen. Once Jasmine Cephas Jones or Gugu Mbatha-Raw or Zoe Saldaña or Zazie Beetz or Tessa Thompson fall madly in love with me (I'm open to any of them...I'm not picky) and want to support my book addiction, I'll hopefully be able to find more space for shelving and organize my library in the manner that it deserves. I might even break out the Dewey Decimal System if we get that organized. Once all that happens, I'll share a proper "shelfie".

[ginger-by-the-sea]

[the-home]

Great house part I

Great house part II

Great house part III

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 476

Dracula: A Symphony in Moonlight & Nightmares

Jon J. Muth (adapted from Dracula by Bram Stoker)

NBM Publishing 1992

The first time I remember encountering the work of Jon J. Muth (b 1960) was his two excellent children’s books, The Three Questions (2002) and Stone Soup (2003). Later I realized I had actually had seen his work before, I just didn’t recognize it as the same person. At the time, I didn’t know that Muth had started in comics, but his comic work is quite different from his children’s art. Muth had done the art for “Exiles,” the story included in the last collection of Sandman stories, The Wake. Everything finally became clear when I read the story “Big Sky” in Warren Ellis’ excellent Global Frequency. Originally published by Marvel in 1986, Muth’s Dracula is beautifully wrought and lovingly characterizes Lucy Seward and Mina Harker in particular. At times reminiscent of Barry Moser and Alan Lee, Muth’s gorgeous watercolors, paired with a minimalist and heavily modified adaptation of Stoker’s classic novel—part journal entries, part dialogue—comes across like the screenplay of a fever dream.

[inlove-with-me-myself-and-i]

Am I the only one that wishes I can have this one day?