I have been enduring the birth pangs of creative writing since September 2008 through a University course so composing a lot of poems, fiction and life writing. And active in a writer circle. I continue to post Twitter size stories and poems on Random Twitter Stories and 50 word stories with longer poems on Random Short Stories. So with this, and the course, not a lot of reading is possible at the moment. However, in keeping with the micro theme. I will from 2010 start doing 50 reviews and book inspired thoughts. Samples of this can be found on Random Reading Thoughts . This means that this blog is now mothballed unless needed for bigger book related thoughts. But I have also started, since August 2010, to turn some posts into spoken 'radio' casts on Audioboo and transfer a few edited posts to these blogs and to Scribbles and Diversions my more literary writing blog. Others I removed to my hard drive or just deleted. Did you really want to know how many books I had catalogued in 2007 - pfft get a life!
Saturday, 4 April 2009
So why no more posts?
Friday, 26 September 2008
50 Book Challenge read and completed from January to Mid September 2008
Removed to the Blog Dusty-box
Monday, 28 July 2008
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Sunday, 18 May 2008
What do other reviewers think
One of the joys of reading other blogs is that you come across ideas to use for your own. I can across Weekly Geeks who are suggesting that you list any blogs links that have reviewed your book. Well easy said then done as I have just spent the last 30 minutes trying to work out how they have nice neat names and I have long internet links. Yes I know read the instructions...did so and now know to create hyperlinks!
So what I intend from now is to do a search and make a link to any book blog that has done a review within that book challenge period. And also invite any reader to comment and leave a link if they have done a review on that book. And so the ripples go on
Sunday, 11 May 2008
The end of an Era
I know that you Americans are busy with starting or ending Mother day lunches so of course wont have time to read this until I am in bed. But its time for my pity party...
Its official, I can't fit in any more books in to my office/study. I now have brick and floorboard shelves between rows of IKEA bookshelves with books stacked on the top of any free shelf roof. Valuable book space is taken up with work files and boxes. I did suggest that I could give up work to read more books and the wife go full time instead. Call me a new age man but I did pick up a certain coolness with the idea. I think the thrown tea gave it away. Likewise, the idea that we switch the study/office with the main bedroom may not have gone down well. I had a simple solution: get a smaller bed and downsize the clothes to a single under the bed trolley-drawer. I couldn't hear all the answer because of the screams, I did catch ...mentally ill...hoarder...grounds for divorce. So what do you think, a runner or not?
Assuming that the lottery isn't going to come up (need to start doing it for a start!, I want to switch my focus from swapping books** to reading and reviewing them. For RISI it means only responding if asked and for Bookmooch it means only mooching if the book appears in the UK. I am also weeding out my swap stock that is down to 4 banana boxes (it was 27!). The intention is to weed this out to say one box, which is I top up with my non-keeper reads because I still intend to build up the wishlists...well may still come across a must have.
In addition, I am now getting book requests directly from authors to review their books some of which are self-publishers so more signs of the changing book market. With this change of focus in mind I came across an interesting site, its called the The Sunday Salon:
Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book.
Of course I have a dream...digitalize my books and store them either on a online server or in a memory stick for e-book reading...60's white space minimalism come back all is forgiven
**Combining the RISI and Bookmooch swaps I have exchanged and received over 1000 books in 18 monthsThursday, 1 May 2008
Top 106 unread books on LibraryThing
This is a extract from a Librarything.com blog about the top 106 unread books on their system (106?...I don'tknow either). Below is my take and the overall assessment which suggests that I only have 10 books that have been on my TBR pile for more two years
We've been meaning to blog this for a while, so here it is! This meme has been going around for a while now: Top 106 unread books on LibraryThing. People are going through the top 106 books tagged "unread" on LT, and then marking which ones they've read, which they read for school, which they started but didn't finish, which are on their to read list, which they loathed, which they read more than once...
Read and Enjoyed: 41 Awaiting: 6 Never/Abandoned 20TBR<> 29 TBR> 2 years: 10
The ultimate hitchhiker's guide by Douglas Adams (43)
Read and enjoyed but having read his biog not sure if he is talented as the hype says
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (236)
Read and enjoyed and it is not slow!
The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini (19)
Sigh… have but no urge to read
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (211)
Read and enjoyed several times
Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (17)
Over hyped twaddle and abandon
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (152)
One day...one day
Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (176)
One day...one day
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (183)
One day...one day
Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (115)
Read and enjoyed several times
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (155)
Read and enjoyed several times…yes really
Ulysses by James Joyce (135)
One day...one day...maybe
War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (132)
Read and enjoyed several times-just skip the long essays he drops in
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (132)
One day...one day
The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (136)
One day...one day
Catch-22 a novel by Joseph Heller (158)
Read and enjoyed several times
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (162)
Read and enjoyed several times
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (110)
One day...one day
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) by Neal Stephenson (92)
One day…one day
A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (124)
Run a mile away from reading any Dickens
The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie (88)
Unreadable rubbish
Middlemarch by George Eliot (96)
Tried three times and have never got past half way
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi (96)
One day...one day
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (120)
Read and enjoyed several times-the film is ok too
The Kor'an by Anonymous (11)
Er… don’t we know who wrote it?...but have not read
Moby *** by Herman Melville (119)
One day...one day
Read and enjoyed…rosy fingers of dawn etc
The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (108)
Yes…and in Middle English!
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (114)
One day...one day
The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (75)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova (108)
Read and enjoyed
Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (101)
One day...one day
Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand (102)
Over dead body- men in white coats territory
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding (67)
Dreary may work as an audio book
The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (87)
One day...one day
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (95)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (94)
The One day...one day
Read and enjoyed… friendship, love of men for war etc
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (97)
One day...one day
Emma by Jane Austen (117)
Read and enjoyed
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (64)
Read and enjoyed…several times
Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence (69)
Read and enjoyed…several times
Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift (88)
Read and enjoyed
The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (62)
Never had any interest in wanting to
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond (104)
Read and enjoyed
Dracula by Bram Stoker (100)
One day…one day
Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence (73)
Read and enjoyed
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers (97)
Read and enjoyed
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (83)
Argggggg Dickens
The once and future king by T. H. White (81)
Read and enjoyed …several times
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (82)
Yes but a bit theological
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (83)
One day…one day
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (88)
Read and enjoyed
Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood (78)
Er… never heard of it
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (106)
Argggggg Dickens
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (56)
One day…one day
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (83)
Loathe Hardy even more then Dickens
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond (76)
One day…one day
The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (84)
One day…one day
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (58)
One day…one day
Underworld by Don DeLillo (64)
Lost the will to live about a 1/3 of the way through
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (63)
The same ilk as Dickens and Hardy
The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck (99)
One day…one day
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (124)
Read and enjoyed
The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake (47)
Read and enjoyed several times
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (66)
Read and enjoyed
Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (65)
Loathe Hardy even more then Dickens
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (62)
One day…one day
Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (66)
One day…one day
A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce (89)
Read and enjoyed
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (59)
Read and enjoyed
The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri (63)
One day…one day
The inferno by Dante Alighieri (84)
One day…one day
Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (66)
One day…one day
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (83)
Over dead body- men in white coats territory
Swann's way by Marcel Proust (59)
One day…one day…if can over find all the volumes
The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (91)
One day…one day
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon (83)
One day…one day
Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen (96)
Read and enjoyed many times
The portrait of a lady by Henry James (62)
One day…one day
Silas Marner by George Eliot (57)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (89)
Read and enjoyed
The man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas (43)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy (80)
Read and enjoyed but strange prose
The book thief by Markus Zusak (67)
Read and enjoyed
The confusion by Neal Stephenson (61)
One day…one day
One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (82)
Read and enjoyed
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (97)
One day…one day
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (63)
Argggggg Dickens
The system of the world by Neal Stephenson (55)
One day…one day
The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… by Brian Greene (60)
One day…one day
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (78)
One day…one day
The known world by Edward P. Jones (53)
One day…one day
The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger (105)
Read and enjoyed
The mill on the Floss by George Eliot (54)
Never had any interest in wanting to
The English patient by Michael Ondaatje (64)
One day…one day
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (47)
One day…one day
Dubliners by James Joyce (78)
One day…one day…maybe
Les misérables by Victor Hugo (73)
One day…one day
The bonesetter's daughter by Amy Tan (56)
Never had any interest in wanting to
Infinite jest : a novel by David Foster Wallace (54)
One day…one day
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (53)
Read and enjoyed
Beloved : a novel by Toni Morrison (77)
One day…one day
Persuasion by Jane Austen (82)
Read and enjoyed
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (83)
Read and enjoyed
The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (69)
Argggggg Dickens
Tropic of cancer by Henry Miller (54)
Read and enjoyed
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Do you use fan and professional reviews to choose books?
Well confession time, I have RSS feeds to various review pages of UK and US national papers and magazines( The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, London Review of Books, New York Review of books,) I also belong to various book swap sites such as Bookmooch, and ReaditSwapit that have book reviews in their Forums and RSS feed them. Finally I also have RSS feeds to 50 book challenge and email alerts from Goodreads.
So daily scan( yes daily and several times a day...who mentioned OCD?) for any reviews of books mostly to alert me to books that I have missed that I would like. If it’s a fan review I quickly get a sense if I would like the book sometimes from why they didn't like it!! Once a book has caught my attention I will go on to Amazon, Librarything and Goodreads to see what the community consensus is. Scanning the reviews soon gives you an idea of how well the book matches the ambition and skills of the writer.
Yes what type of review tips the balance for you? It has to be said that a lot of the fan reviews are too often the book page blurb and a paragraph on why I like/don't like it. Even worse are the reviews on some sites that are a list of titles and one liners why I like/don't like it. On the other hand, too many of the professional reviews are on the other side of the camp in that the writer shows how much they know about the subject or theme of the book but you also struggle to know if the book is any good.
So the ideal review for me puts the book in to context...what genre, what traditions are they writing in, what's interesting about the author and this book. Secondly, I like to see an outline about the plot, characters, factual content etc so I can get a sense of what the author is trying to do. Thirdly, in the light of the first two factors, a review of how the author has managed to make it work in terms of characterisations, styles, plot credibility etc
I supposed it’s akin to a good review of say of a play by Shakespeare. I am told what's the Director's interpretation is and the past history of interpretations as well as what this means for the choice of set, costume, period, casting, lighting, staging etc. And then its discussed how successful this was and why. Here as in the book review I want to read a critical analysis that illuminates why the play/book works/doesn’t work.
Yes you say but this is still only one persons view but by knowing the assumptions and perspective of this reviewer( this one likes experimental, cutting edge but this one low brow easy reads) you can quickly spot if you are on the same wavelength. I also love the notion of aggregating the responses of reviewers, I don't think we have a booksite that is akin to the http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/site that collates all the film reviews and gives you the reader a community consensus. The Sunday papers sometimes do a pick of the critics which gives you the consensus on a book, or film. In books its more likely to be the readers rather then critics consensus that is aggregated. For example like Goodreads and Library thing.com aggregate the ratings. As do the Amazon sites with the possibility of manipulation (see this link for what dirty tricks may lie behind a books rating http://muse-books.livejournal.com/47745.html) but we don't have a poll of the polls.
And what do you do with all these reviews you may ask? Well I wishlist all the books that catch my eye on to my book swap sites and then wait until they pop up free. Well that's the theory, in practise I also buy some as well...oh and of course at some time read them!
Saturday, 19 April 2008
A member of my
But I think its one of those questions that you have to actually check what you read and have on your shelves rather then assume. Being a leftie of long standing, I would say that its the book and its content that interest me and the gender of the writer is of no or limited interest, As they say a lovely theory ruined by the facts. In checking my TBR piles of 782 only around 10% of them were women writers!!!!
So how do I explain this clear gender bias? Well I don't read much genre literature except for SF which will tend to have a male writer bias. I tend to read a lot of foreign and cult books and only a handful of foreign books get translated in to English so I suspect a gender bias creeps in here. And looking at my rough guide to cult fiction book less then 5% are women authors. Another strand of my reading is cutting edge literature as say in the Pen-Faulkner award which has been running since 1981(see the link below if interested) and from 1981 to 1996 it looks like around only 30% were women writers.
http://www.penfaulkner.org/awardforfiction.htm
So what does the evidence of your bookshelves and TBR really reveal rather then your intentions?
Sunday, 24 February 2008
10 things I hate when reading a book
- being asked how do I find the time to read so many;
- listening to someone else’s ipod earphones drone when reading on a train;
- noticing someone is reading an interesting book but not its title ;
- hoping that the writer enjoyed writing it more then I enjoy reading it;
- not being able to pronounce any of the characters names;
- finding pages underlined so struggle to remember why hanging is a bad thing;
- having to keep a log of who is who when… AND THEN LOSING IT;
- realizing that’s it one of a series and I haven’t read the others;
- knowing that the film was far better; and
- the wife insisting I come to bed before I can finish the book.
Sunday, 17 February 2008
My Morning ritual
This is my morning ritual what is yours?
Saturday, 9 February 2008
Memories of walking the dog
pink high heels wobble
summer warmth and winter trees
dead eyes stare ahead
afro pollard chic
teenage grassy knoll picnic
innocence spoiled
solitary man stares
gulls scatter as falling snow
a silence walks on
Swaping books and the human condition..
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I don't drink, smoke, take drugs, lust after other people's wives (well hardly ever), have secret desires (and if I do would I tell you?), gamble or any other sinful activity...well I do swap books... lots of books. Well as you ask nicely its 700+ but this was over 14 months. Yes I do read them and no I am not a secret bookseller.
This is done through two book swap sites: Bookmooch an international site and ReadItSwapit an
Now before they comeback let me get to the point. When I request books from the
Hi, I am mooching two books so that you can use the Priority Mail® Flat
Rate Envelope. This is the only cheap way for international post If you
get the free envelopes from your Post office and click on
http://ircalc.usps.gov/IntlMailServices.aspx?Country=10150&M=1&P=1&O=0
it will cost you $10.45 . This means that you will get six points. It looks like this.
Priority Mail® Flat Rate Envelope 6 - 10 Days $11.00$10.45
Also I am in no rush, so delay sending them until within budget. If not possible then let me know and I will cancel this end
In one case, this was accepted and the books were sent but then I got this email
It urns out that you are incorrect about the flat rate int'l envelope. The U.S. Postal Service has not released that product yet, and it is not known when they will. So, I paid full dollar to send you those two books. I think a smooch(Ed... this is a device whereby they get free points and not a request for some perverse vice) at least is in order here! I wouldn't have accepted a double mooch from anyone, but treated you as a special case based on the info you provided. It's not your fault that you were wrong; you don't live here. And, as I was there in the post office, I could have said "screw this, I'm not sending both these books (and one of them a hard back, too)." But, I gave them both to you anyway. So, I expect some kind of gratuity in return!
I responded with this(don’t you think I was so English as at no time did I rant, stamp my feet and point out why is it only to Americans do I have to explain how to send mail abroad)
I am afraid that you were given poor advice as I have swapped many times using this process and have dozen of the envelopes sitting on my floor that prove this.
The link takes you to the USPS and so I am not clear why this was not given as proof to the post office.
I am sorry that you have been given the run around. I will consider your request once the books arrive.
Anyway so what was the response to my comments? It was this charming note
Well, I was standing right there at the post office window and was told by a US Postal Worker that no such flat rate existed. I sent the books to you anyway, and it was very costly. And your response, that you'll consider my request for a smooch or the like when the books arrive, makes me really, really sorry I sent them to you. One of them a brand new, never been read book, too. You have proved to be unworthy of my generosity. What a jerk.
When I posted all this to the Bookmooch Forum I was given a lot of support and useful tips which I have used to make even more clear how the USPS works for overseas.(Yes I know, I know)
So is this about Americans being dumb? Well no it’s about how nice many Americans are and it’s about understanding that we are from different cultures. The postal systems are different and in rural areas…
I prefer to remember a Fools of Gotham story in which a rich merchant stops a peasant and shouts at him
What are the people like in yonder town?
The peasant asks
What were the people like where you come from?
They were greedy liars
You will find the same here
The merchant rides on.
Sunday, 3 February 2008
Books, beds and email
Where to begin? Well I am in bed and so what you say? But my wife is next door in our bed as my half collapsed... nudge, nudge know what you mean.
Sadly nothing as exciting, the dog jumped up in the night and the wife rolled over. The combined weight was the final straw so I ended up with the lot on top of me on the floor at 4 in the morning.
This meant that as I am cursed with eyes open so now awake syndrome I had to get up to read(The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster since you ask).
Anyway its now nearly lunchtime and time to get up. But I should be up cleaning the house(some new fangled notion of the wife as she is now working full time so says I should be doing half the household chores...hmm what next the vote?)
Instead sneaked onto my emails and discovered that an Australian moochee had tipped me off that a much sought after book had been posted.
This in turn got me thinking about why can't I post to my blog via my phone.(what you mean you don't see the connection?) I can text and send pictures if the right mobilephone carrier but don't. So was checking if the UK had caught up which it largely hasn't. I had wanted to do a travel blog when in China when this blog on the go would work. (Yes I do think a picture showing this is me reading in bed, on train, in bath etc is a tad on the less exciting side of life!)
What I do want to do is while on a train and the laptop battery is down is to do a review or a creative writing piece for a post. And being able to do this from the phone would help.
However, I then discovered that I could(and always have?) email a post which is why I am in bed doing the very same.
Sunday, 15 July 2007
Proud Book Eccentric
Does anyone have a spouse who is not particularly supportive of their
BookMooch habit? Today my husband said I was "borderline eccentric"
because I keep getting more books, and he said I shouldn't get any
more until I read what I have! I have about 200 books, which are now
starting to overflow our bookshelves. I am working diligently at
getting them all read, but it takes time!
This worries him, as he thinks that is "way too many books for one
person to have." He has no idea that there are lots of people who have
MANY more books than that! He's not really that much into reading--he
reads maybe a handful of books a year; whereas I read a handful every
month.
I need a little bit of support here. Someone please reassure me that I
am not turning *eccentric* just because I love books!! Does anyone
else have to deal with a significant other who is not supportive of
their book habit?
Kristin
I have an entire room dedicated to my books. My TBR pile is 621 (and I have 8 wall to wall bookshelves with some 1200 other books piling onto the floor) and growing. I use Freecycle to get books(got a really good box of 30+ woman self help and a range of novels yesterday in mint condition) to add to the pile and to swap for more books. I have a blog to share my experience of books that include a Twitter board so any random thoughts can be texted at a moments notice and a live music log so you know what I am listening to as I experience life with books. I am active in three forums and two swap sites linked to books and review books for several sites. I catalogue all my books via Librarything.com and get into conversations about that. I also l scan various literary sites and trade press such as the TLS for news on current trends in books for my wishlists.. I also listen and watch any program about books and words. All presents are book tokens, well at Christmas its book tokens (and black socks-long story!) but people still insist on buying me beer and chocolates as well :-(Oh and I read them as well! I have read around 65 books since the 1st of January and I am currently reading The History of Dreams which was Peter Hoeg's first novel. This means that I am often up by 6 in the morning to catalogue, blog, forum watch, read books. And often read late at night in bed with a little battery operated book light attached to the book so not to get thrown out of bed by outraged wife!
My wife is not amused when I turn up with yet another bag of car boot junk that may have some books as she knows she will have to hassle me to get the non-book stuff to the local charity/thrift shops. Nor when I ask her to stay in " because some books may come!( We cracked that one, I now have a notice on the door that any books arriving and we not answering the door can be put in the safe place tin box hidden in the front garden which the red van posties love as they can rush by, throw the books in and not even have to bother to ring the door). I don't take books out with me if we go out...now...the temperature got too cool!
So the next time you get called borderline eccentric just remind them what you could be like!
Monday, 2 July 2007
What's the story?
Dedication on the flyleaf to a new cherished friend and writing partner... So what happened? Why in my hands? Creepy gift from stalker? Dreamer of love, dashed? New partner's jealous throw out? Death so painful release?
Friday, 22 June 2007
Chance discovery
Catherine "Katie" Boyle (born Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali Di Francavilla on 29 May 1926 in Italy is still agony aunt for the monthly magazine Dogs Today.
Visions of dogs writing in complaining of the lack of walks and poor understanding by owners of a dog's natural urges. Or worse still, owners writing in complaining how twickiwoo just hates to be on a diet and so what must a "mother" do?
Thursday, 21 June 2007
Random, word: malfunction
Doors shouldn't malfunction. They may stick, creak, wrap but are these malfunctions? Surely, the word describes a fault in a mechanical or electronic device. I mean would a character in a Henry James novel experience angst and social anxieties about a malfunctioning door? It would be flawed, impaired or broken and suggest an emotional connection or a fall from grace. Think about it, The Devil didn't malfunction, he suffered hubris. Malfunction suggests we and our living surroundings are only worth their function. So the next time the door sticks, creaks or jams enjoy the memories it ripples inside you.
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Secret thoughts of a reader...
" if you only read the books that every one else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Sunday, 3 June 2007
Does your library reflect your current views?
This was a question posed by Roger von Oech creativity thinker per excellence. This is my answer, what is yours?
Yes it does, reflect my world view, You would find a bookshelf of radical Theology, that reflects my Quakerism and a quest to make sense of why.
Next to it you would find shelves of books on all aspects of writing and all manner of sources and advise on Storytelling. Together, these reflect Mythos learning. This reflects my interests in words and engaging audiences with them.
Facing them both is a big bookcase, full of science, history, biology, social sciences etc that reflect Logos learning.
Yet bigger then two is my Fiction section that spans the genres and the centuries which for me unites the two streams so allowing and experience the soul of another and the world in ways not of my path.
Oh the professional literature? On the floor in various boxes based on the filing system "of at least its all in one place"
My world view? There is more then one answer and they may all be correct.
