Libraries
By ice rivers
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Remember the days when we would show off our album collections. The days when we were expected to look at the collections when we entered a house or an apartment. Remember the conclusions drawn and the appreciations uttered.? We expected the usual...Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Byrds, Dylan Animals, Doors, and were surprised and encouraged when we saw Leonard Cohen or Johnny Rivers or Sam Cooke or Zappa or the Zombies or Duane Eddy or James Brown or Bert Kaempfert or Kinks.
Now except for a few diehards, album collections have disappeared into dustbins, garbage cans or trade offs. Some of my last remaining albums I gifted to my daughter Mary when she bought her turntable as vinyl made a brief return with the twenty and thirty some things.
We still have our personal libraries to reveal our tastes although even those libraries are becoming sparse. I visited a successful man awhile back who had beautiful bookcases in his stately manor. Books were the only thing lacking in his bookcases.
We maintain several libraries in our house, only two of them visible; the collection in our office and my collection in the “man cave”.
Our other personla libraries are located within our KIndle readers and Amazon Fires. My kindle has 835 titles, my Amazon has an additional 155.
Nobody gets to see my hand held collections. I can't imagine showing anyone the covers of the books I own as if I were showing them pictures of our grandchildren. I'm thinking attnetion spans equal to reaction times.
A couple of days ago, I dropped my Kindle on the bathroom floor. The covering shattered and 835 titles were frozen, trapped in some sort of cyber limbo.
So today we’re headed over to the Huntersville public library which has been closed for the past eight months. It’s only partially opened. We can reserve books from the main library at Charlotte and have those books sent to Huntersville, where we can retrieve the reserved. The shelves themselves remain off limits.
I love libraries, always have since the days of Dr. Seuss and Herbert S Zim. Every so often, I'll wake up and realize that I'm spending too much money on books when I can just go to the library and if I'm patient and know how to reserve and request books, I can save a lot of money.
Yesterday in a burst of momentarty inspiration, I took a close look at our office library to see what it said about our tastes.
Eclectic of course.
We have 8 rows with about 30 books of all sizes in each row.
The row on the bottom left reveals Lynn’s love of Patterson, Baldacci and King.
The latest Alex Cross book is in the mail for Christmas.
There are surprisingly few novels in my collection but I find Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, MIchael Chabon, Robert Graves, Norman Mailer, Carl Hiassen, John Barth, JD Salinger, Emily Bronte, Jane Austin, Mary Shelley,WP Kinsella, John Irving, Richard Russo, Dickens, Dosteovsky and Stieg Larsson represented......
and right there in the middle of all of ‘em are two copies of Full Filler by Ice Rivers, an obscure artist of whom I am particularly fond.
Most of the other books are non-fiction dealing with baseball, films, boxing, wrestling, television. language awareness, English usage, politics, rock and roll, Dali, Ali, Star Wars and lots and lots of Shakespeare writings an analyses.
I don’t quite know where to categorize Robert Crumb and the Book of Genesis Illustrated but he and it are there as well.
So there we are.
Those are my libraries
All of the hundreds of read books are stored in my brain which has grown very overcrowded and needs the relief of writing which aids me in the reclaiming of my intellectual property.
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I'm a bibliophile too. Steig
I'm a bibliophile too. Steig Larrsson. I know the spelling is correct because I recently reviewed his books.
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