Talking about books

I think those germs I had earlier this week are coming back at me again. Bleh. So to take my mind off of it, I’m going to answer some book memes.

The first is a Shelving Meme from Little Willow at Bildungsroman.

1. How do you organize your books? By genre, by last name, by title, by publication date?
I really don’t have a specific way of organizing. I have two bookcases: the one in the living room holds my most favorite books, the ones I want people to see and say “Oh! I love that book too!” (although they never do); the one in the computer room holds the rest of our book collection. The books are really just shoved into the shelves wherever they will fit, although I do group all books by the same author together.

2. Do you have a shelf reserved for your favorite books and/or authors?
Yep, the entire bookcase in the living room is for favorite books and authors.

3. What is the first title and author on your bookshelf?
The one in the living room, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. The one in the computer room, The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket.

4. What is the last title and author on your bookshelf?
Um…the one in the computer room is one of my writing books. Not sure which one. The one in the living room is The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

5. What genre dominates your collection?
Young adult and fantasy.

6. Which author is the most represented? (You own the most number of books by . . . )
Ann M. Martin. I don’t have all of the Baby-Sitters Club books yet (including super specials, mysteries, and spin off series), but I do have a very large majority of them.

7. You own all of the books written by . . .
Elizabeth Haydon. I have all of Shakespeare’s works collected in two volumes, does that count?

8. You own the entire series of . . .
A Series of Unfortunate Events. Very nearly the entire Baby-Sitters Club series.

The other is a weekly book meme I just found, Booking Through Thursday (I’m a day late).

A couple weeks ago, we asked about how you take care of your books, with one of the questions asking whether you write in your books. Well, what about books that are meant to be written in? Like, say, a journal or diary? Do you keep one? Obviously, if you’re answering this, you have a blog–do you just let your blog be your journal? Or do you also keep one for private stuff also?

I do keep a paper journal that I try to keep up with. Sometimes that just means copying entries from my blog into my paper journal because I don’t want to write up an entirely new entry, but other times I do write about things in there that I don’t write about online. I’ve kept a paper journal since I was eleven years old and have the entire collection of them in a closet. I number the journals to help keep them in order and the one I’m currently on is number 23. It’s interesting to read over the old ones and see how my thoughts and opinions of things have changed throughout my life.