Bookshelf Tour 2021!

It’s second-to-last-day-of-Blogmas! Today’s post is my updated book collection!

Overview of book room:

I’m pretty happy with how it is. The nonfiction has been moved to the hallway, and honestly most of it is my husband’s, so I’m not gonna bother going over it. For the two piles shown in the last picture, the left two are books that have been purged. I’ll be dropping them off at my sister in law’s free little library. The two piles on the right are books I’ve borrowed from friends and family.

Manga and graphic novels

You can see my 10 in 2021 books on top in that last pic there. In addition to the manga shown, I have quite a few lent out. Not shown are: Ten Count 6, Rave Master 1-10, Demon Diary 1-7, Delicious in Dungeon 1-4, Inuyasha 1-5, The Way of the House Husband 1-2, Pandora Hearts 1, Trigun 1-2, Trigun Maximum 1-4, and Tokyo Ghoul 1-4 (though Tokyo Ghoul isn’t mine – it’s my husband’s).

Fiction:

Right now, my shelves are ordered by read and unread, followed by author (more or less). The last pic is what I’m currently reading and a couple books on the back-burner. Like the manga, I also have a lot of fiction lent out. Not shown: Uprooted, The Bear and the Nightingale, House of Leaves, Assassin’s Apprentice, Assassin’s Quest, Senlin Ascends, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, The Poppy War, Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom, King of Scars, Throne of Glass, and Isle of Blood.

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And that’s it! Those are my books as of today. Tomorrow is Blogmas day Last!

 

Bookshelf Tour – 2019!

I’m aware it’s 2020. :”D I had meant to post this in December during the main chunk of Blogmas, but I didn’t get the photos together or my bookshelves organized in time, so it’s a bit delayed. But I’ll be posting one next December too and that will be the 2020 one. So bear with me here. If you’re interested, here’s my 2018 and 2017 tours. Any that I list as missing are currently lent out.

Also I have to double-stack now. IT’S TEARING ME APART. D’:

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Overview of shelves

Nonfiction and Foreign Language

Missing: The Good Women of China

Manga, graphic novels, and 10 in 2020 books

Fantasy and Science Fiction

Missing: The Traitor Baru Cormorant, The Poppy War, Assassin’s Apprentice, Assassin’s Quest

Missing: Uprooted

Missing: Senline Ascends

Missing: Throne of Glass

Missing: The Bear and the Nightingale, Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom, King of Scars

Horror, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Classics, Magical Realism, and Literary Fiction

Missing: Isle of Blood

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And thaaaat’s it! Sorry some of the pics are a bit blurry, there’s a bug in the software of my camera on my phone that makes the autofocus go crazy. -_- Hopefully most of them came out ok.

Happy reading!

Top 5 bookshelf collectibles

Hello, Happy Hump Day! Today’s topic is top collectibles on the bookshelf, whether they be collectible books, decorations, etc. I’m hoping the ones that I picked turn out to be a bit unique. But who knows, I might be totally unoriginal. Onto the things!

If you would like to participate in T5W, you can do so here!

McGonagall’s wand

I went to Harry Potter world this past October, and I picked up McGonagall’s wand! It stays in its box, because I don’t trust myself not to break it.

The Fullmetal Alchemist pocket watch

…and action figures and staff. My sister got me the pocket watch as a gift one year and I absolutely adore it. While not directly on my bookshelves, it’s on a display shelf right next to them. 3 Oct. Don’t forget.

Globe bookends

These were a gift from my parents for Christmas two years ago. I had no idea something like this even existed. I almost cried when I got them though. They’re fully functioning – they spin and everything. I. Love. Them.

Sonata Arctica drumstick

Sonata Arctica is one of my favorite bands – I’m particularly a fan of their older stuff. Once upon a time, I went to their concert and was pretty damn close to the front of the stage (another time I was at the front, but that’s a different story). At the end, the drummer threw sticks he had used and yours truly caught one. You can see, it’s all beat up.

Masks

I don’t know what it is, but I really like the aesthetic of these things. I bought them a long time ago, back in 2008 or so, from a store called Earth Bound, which has since closed down, at least in my area. Man, I love these masks.

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And that’s it! I don’t have too much on my shelves, but what I do have, I really like. Happy reading!

Bookshelf Tour 2018

Hello! Today is an updated bookshelf tour! The last time I did one was at the end of 2017. Since then, I’ve added new ones, rearranged a bit, and purged some old ones.

I have quite a few off the shelves right now because they’re either lent out or lying around my place, so any I notice are missing will be noted. None of the books mentioned in the book haul that I posted yesterday are on the shelves yet, so none of them will be shown either. 😛

Also, I almost almost did a video. I shot the footage and everything, and Katy offered to edit it for me. But… I got camera shy at the last minute. I’m not even in it, just my voice. But still. Pictures, haha.

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Nonfiction and Foreign Language

Missing: The Good Women of China

Manga and graphic novels

Missing: Mushishi vols 2-4, Fruits Basket vols 1-4, Wotakoi vol 3, Descender vol 2, Monstress vols 1-2, Chew vols 1-2, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

Fantasy and Science Fiction

Missing: His Majesty’s Dragon, Throne of Glass, Truthwitch, Assassin’s Apprentice, The Name of the Wind, The Knife of Never Letting Go

Horror, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Classics, Magical Realism, and Literary Fiction

Missing: House of Leaves, Water for Elephants, Isle of Blood

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And that’s it! I think with the new books going on, I’m going to need another case. I have two small cases right now among the collection – I might see if I can replace one or both of them with a larger case.

According to Goodreads (which… I keep mostly up to date), not including the newest books from the haul because I haven’t added them in yet, I own 707 books, 270 of which are unread. I’ll go into more detail come January, but I hope to reduce that to 250 or so by the end of 2019. Wish me luck. Ideally I’ll have unread books until I die – it’s no fun otherwise.

Happy reading!

 

Bookshelf Tag

1- How many bookshelves do you have?

Eight total – five full sized and two minis in the book room, and one more mini in the office, though that’s holding solely textbooks and computer manuals

2- How many books are on your bookshelves? Or how many books you think you have?

Currently my ‘owned’ shelf on goodreads says I have 707 books, which is probably accurate-ish.

3- How do you organize your books?

By genre, followed by author

4- What is the oldest book on your bookshelf?

I have a psychology manual published in 1895! It’s pretty neat.

5- What is the newest book on your bookshelf?

Wotakoi volume 3 by Fujita! It just came out last month.

6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf?

George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords. My copy is 1179 pages.

7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?

The Official Pokemon Handbook 2, coming it at 64 pages.

8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?

Fantasy. It takes up two an a half of the large book cases

9- Have you done a bookshelf tour?

Yes, in photos. I plan on doing another one again this year… haven’t decided if doing photos or video yet, though.

10- Go on a random number generator and talk about the book that corresponds with that number.

As much as this would be fun, it’s currently 5am, and going upstairs and turning the lights on to count books would not be a wise idea. So I’m gonna grab one from goodreads: Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick. I don’t know much about it, honestly. This was very much a ‘I’ve heard good things’ kinda of buy. I’ll get to it eventually.

11- Do you have fan merch or any other decorations on your bookshelf?

I have a few anime plushies, and some Harry Potter merch. In storage I have more, including a Fullmetal Alchemist pocket watch. I should really get around to unpacking that stuff, man.

12- Show us your bookshelf!

View this post on Instagram

Quick overview of cleaned up, post-konmari-ed shelves . . . . . #bookshelves

A post shared by Emily (@embuhley) on Sep 18, 2018 at 6:20am PDT

13- Tag someone.

Don’t tell me what to do!

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Happy reading!

Bookshelf Tour 2017

Hello! I’ve decided to do one of those bookshelf tour thingies. As I have a blog and not a youtube, this will be done through photos. 😛 I’m fairly sure that each photo is clear enough that you should be able to see titles if you want. Any photo I place here you should be able to right-click and select ‘view image’ to see the full size if you need a larger view of the thing.

As I’ve mentioned (a billion times now) I moved recently. We moved from a two bedroom apartment into a three bedroom townhouse. And since it’s just my husband and I right now, those two extra bedrooms we’re using as not-bedrooms. One is our office (which is still a bunch of boxes).

The other is my uh… my library. :”D I have my own room dedicated to books! The photos you’ll see are how it looks right now. I want to get a big, comfy arm chair in there though. Right now, there’s an antique rocking chair and while it’s actually comfy to sit in, you can’t really curl up in it. So I’m on the hunt for a recliner.

Anyways, here are my books. I’ve been collecting them for two decades. Anything listed as ‘not shown’ I’m either currently reading, is lent out, or is still in a box somewhere.

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Overview of Shelves

Manga and Nonfiction

Fiction, graphic novels

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Detail of Shelves

Manga
Not pictured: Attack on Titan vols 1-14

Manga

Nonfiction: Languages, art, biography, history, music, cooking

Nonfiction: Philosophy, psychology, politics, more psychology
Not pictured: The bottom shelf of this bookcase. (Textbooks)

Sci-fi
Not shown: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey

Sci-fi, fantasy
Not shown: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

Fantasy

Fantasy
Not shown: Assassin’s Apprentice, Fool’s Errand by Robin Hobb

Fantasy
Not shown: HP 3 paperback, HP4 hardback, HP3 illustrated, A Court of Thorns and Roses, Wheel of Time 4 and 5

Fantasy
Not shown: Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

Fantasy

Fantasy, horror, magical realism, literary
Not shown: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Ilse of Blood by Rick Yancey, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Magical realism, literary, contemporary, historical fiction

Historical fiction, literary, Christmas, classics
Not shown: Easy by Tammara Webber

Thriller, coloring books, dnd, graphic novels
Not shown: 5th ed Monster Manual, 5th ed Players Handbook, 5th ed Dungeon Master’s Guide

Comics

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And that’s it! I thought to myself ‘I’ll make a picture post instead of a video, it’ll take no time at all that way!’

…It still took me an hour, hahaha. It was worth it though!

Happy reading! 😀