It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner. - Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman's Odd Shelf is books about polar exploration. Mine is real-life spy stories, especially ones about moles. My library is mostly fiction, but I'll buy pretty much any book that comes out about Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five.
Do you have an Odd Shelf, and if so, what's on it?
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
No, I think everything I pick up is done pretty rapidly. may be a little different at the moment since there are no charity shops open.I've been picking up things from some random areas still. Have been picking up a lot of black lives matter decolonisation , western exploitation stuff new as well as various music.BUt probably how i do things anyway.
& books tend to be spread out across the flat rather than really being in a systematic order.& aropund an don the bed.
BUt am reading some interesting stuff.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
actually I think I mistyped randomly as rapidly in the first line there. Tends to be a case of what i see on shelves in places in normal times. Always looking for new things thaht are interesting when I'm in charity shops so walk away with a lot of stuff that I may wind up picking up a lot later to actually read
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link