Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Anatomy of a Bookshelf

Shelf 1, back row: "Making of" movie books, plays, comic anthologies/graphic novels
Shelf 1, front row: poetry, London guides

Shelf 2, back row: Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Sherlock Holmes, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, In Cold Blood, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Complete Edgar Allen Poe
Shelf 2, front row: The Peggy Lane Theater Series, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Amnesiac, The Woman in White, Dracula, The Alienist, Gone with the Wind, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Little Women, Peter Pan (11 copies)

Shelf 3, back row: Shakespeare lit crit and historical context
Shelf 3, front row: Shakespeare plays (38 volumes)

Shelf 4, back row: young adult and children's (mostly published 1960's), foreign language textbooks
Shelf 4, front row: young adult and children's (mostly published 1980's)

Shelf 5: picture books, shooting scripts, theater programs, half filled notebooks

So, basically, something like 70% of my bookshelf has a reading level of 12 or younger and the rest is Shakespeare. Sounds about right.

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