Valerie. 23. Ghent, Belgium. This is my personal. Book blog is over at IsserleyLovesBooks.tumblr.com :) Nerdfighter. Student. I read a lot :) I answer asks privately, anons publically. If you ask as yourself and would like me to publish it, or think it might be nice if I did, just let me know. :)
Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood!
The Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic is turning 73 today. Her best-known works are the dystopion The Handmaid’s Tale (also a personal favourite), The Year of the Flood, The Blind Assassion and Oryx and Crake.
My woefully small short stories/poetry section.
Closer look at my baby library: the shelf with the shiny Mitchells.
Most of my bookshelves. As I may have mentioned, I pruned my book collection prior to the move, then got 5 bookcases. Did I miscalculate! But, at least I have room for expansion, now.
My short stories and poetry (only half a shelf, don’t get excited) are in case number four.
NOT ENOUGH.
Inside detail: Penguin hardcover edition of Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This copy was a present from my friend Maria. Photo by me.
Madeleine Hanna is an English major, writing her thesis on Austen and Eliot. In real life, she has her own marriage plot to resolve.
Pre-reading biases
Eugenides’ Middlesex was and is hugely important to me personally. As I read The Virgin Suicides, I remember feeling quite…
| Me: | You can loan this book until the 3rd of august |
| Guy: | Thank you, and how long can I keep it? |
| Me: | A month, until the 3rd of august |
| Guy: | Thank you. And when is that? |
| Me: | ... the 3rd of august |
| Guy: | Thank you, goodbye. |
Look at these wonderful hardback editions <3 The Great Gatsby and Flappers and Philosophers arrived today; I already owned Tales of the Jazz Age. Aren’t they gorgeous?
So I’m in love.
My Austens <3 Pride and Prejudice is currently on a field trip, trying to get my baby sister interested in reading, along with Good Omens.
I can assure you Emma is as well-read as the others, but I used to be VERY uptight about the condition of my books and recently relaxed. It just hasn’t been read in the last few months.
Someone requested a closer view at some of my fantasy/sci-fi shelves. Part 1!
A closer look at my baby library.
My books arrived today! Well, all but one, anyway. Especially excited about the Keats, but how awesome are these (very affordable!) Penguin English Classics? After I got over the orange, in any case.
In the local language: I IZ EXCITE.
Happy (dead) birthday to you, Aldous Huxley!
Huxley’s most well-known work is, of course, Brave New World, incidentally one of my favourite dystopias.
Madeleine Hanna is an English major, writing her thesis on Austen and Eliot. In real life, she has her own marriage plot to resolve.
Pre-reading biases
Eugenides’ Middlesex was and is hugely important to me personally. As I read The Virgin Suicides, I remember feeling quite…
| Me: | You can loan this book until the 3rd of august |
| Guy: | Thank you, and how long can I keep it? |
| Me: | A month, until the 3rd of august |
| Guy: | Thank you. And when is that? |
| Me: | ... the 3rd of august |
| Guy: | Thank you, goodbye. |
