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LL: August 2020: The Bookshelf Tag
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1. I just have 1 small bookcase of 3 shelves because of space in my small apartment. I do have 4 boxes of books also and my daughter has about the same that she is storing for me until I moved somewhere bigger,
2. I would say about 2-300.
3. I get out what I want to read that year and try to organize them in the author or genre.
4. I have some Elizabeth Goudge books that are the oldest books I have by the printing date.
5. My newest acquistion would be Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories
6. Longest : The Count of Monte Cristo (I am saving this for if we have lockdown again. It should see me through the winter. This and Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens)
7. Shortest: I Saw Three Ships by Elizabeth Goudge
8. Classics.
9. A few ornaments.
And now I am going to tag Jazzy.
1- How many bookshelves do you have?5 and some suitcases. And stacks on the floor. And in supermarket bags.
2- How many books you think you have?
300?
3- How do you organise your books?
Nobel Laureates, Russian, French, Folio, Sci-Fi, Penguins, Languages, Barnes & Nobles, Everyman's Library, a big cloth bag of poetry. Extra paperbacks and crime fiction.
4- What is the oldest book on your bookshelf by the printing date?
Since I gave away some lovely old books from the 1880s, the oldest I have now are 4 volumes of Anton "TCHEHOV" from 1921.
5- What is the newest book acquired on your bookshelf?
I bought several used books yesterday, and just before I went home, the shopkeeper talked me into buying
What is the Truth? (1984) by Ted Hughes
It is an illustrated book of animal poetry by the Poet Laureate who was married to Sylvia Plath.
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
The most words Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
The most pages War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
Probably a sheet music book. I bought this yesterday.
50 Great Irish Drinking Songs
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
Classic World Literature.
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelf?
All kinds of things. Especially things that don't belong on a bookshelf.
10- You can show us a photo of your bookshelf if you want.
Well... here's a picture of Gavroche last year when he was a wee kitten.
And I'll tag Rosemarie!
1. Bookshelves- at least 6 tall Billy bookcases that I share with other family members, but 2/3 of the space is taken up by mine.There are also random bookshelves in the basement.
2. Number of books- I don't know so I will say at least 500 but less than 800.
3. I organize my books by languages, genres and publishers. I like to keep my classic Penguins together by colour of band(indicates type of book). Also by size since I have some shorter bookshelves.
4. Oldest book -Heilige Stätten 1889
5. Newest book - Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
6. Longest book - Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
7. Shortest (smallest) book- Lohengrin: Romantische Oper in 3 Aufzügen by Richard Wagner
8. Predominant genre - classic world literature
9. Other things - CD's on their own shelves, greeting cards at certain occasions, plus extra books
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There are also random bookshelves in the basement.
2. Number of bo..."
Hi Rosemarie, do you want to tag someone else?
Thank you, Rosemarie.1- How many bookshelves do you have?
We have three bookshelves- I also share
with my mother and sister.
2- How many books you think you have?
Less than fifty-five.
3- How do you organize your books?
By genre, then alphabetically.
4- What is the oldest book on your bookshelf by the printing date?
I'm not sure, nothing old.
5- What is the newest book acquired on your bookshelf?
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
Wives and Daughters
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
The Romance of Hats
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
Classics
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelf?
A small red pail for book markers,
pencils, pens and paper- dog ears are
forbidden, favorite literary movies,
journals, a small box of lipsticks, a
medium size basket for various things,
CDs- classical & standards, crossword
puzzles and a decorative box.
I'll tag new member Nadia.
Hello and thank you Ruth 😊🌸🌷1- How many bookshelves do you have?
I have three bookshelves.
2- How many books you think you have?
I have approximately 380 books.
3- How do you organise your books?
I always organise my books by genre and then alphabetical order.
My first bookshelf is for non fiction books which include biographies, art, history, world war 2, crime, spiritual, gardening and cooking.
My 2nd and 3rd bookshelves are for fiction books.
4- What is the oldest book by printing date?
My fathers school books with the printing date 1946.
5- What is the newest book on my bookshelf?
The latest book I have purchased is Angel Of Death Dulcie Markham Australia’s Most Beautiful Bad Woman by Leigh Straw.
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
A spiritual book called At The Feet Of The Master by Krishnamurti ( Alcyone )
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
Historical fiction
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelves?
Sorry there is no room for anything more than bookmarks.
I would like to tag new member May but I’m not sure how to do that.
You just say "I tag XY" Nadia! :) Don´t think there´s a real tag function like on FB etc.
Jazzy wrote: "I like reading all these."Me too! I love learning about others' bookshelves. I'm the person that will be craning her neck to try to see what someone is reading in public too.
Primrose Jess wrote: "Me too! I love learning about others' bookshelves. I'm the person that will be craning her neck to try to see what someone is reading in public too."Hahahaha! Oh, I just run up to them and ASK!
Jazzy wrote: "Primrose Jess wrote: "Me too! I love learning about others' bookshelves. I'm the person that will be craning her neck to try to see what someone is reading in public too."Hahahaha! Oh, I just run..."
LOL! I need to be more brave and just ask to save my poor neck muscles from the contortion!
Oh thank you Nadia for the tag! Here I go:1- How many bookshelves do you have?
I have two small bookshelves and everything else bookish is piled onto a small desk-table which we initially bought for a video game steering wheel, but I took it over after some months :D
2- How many books you think you have?
I can't say I have many books, maybe 30 including encyclopaedias/atlases which are my new favourite thing to buy. Life changed for me dramatically reading wise after I got a Kindle! I can finally read almost anything I want.
3- How do you organise your books?
There is definitely thought put into it, but it's hard to explain! I would never put Austen next to Bronte, I feel they would argue, as Caroline Bingley suggested in a letter to Jane Bennet that two women spending the entire day together would definitely result in a quarrel but I would put Tolkien next to books on learning Russian.
4- What is the oldest book by printing date?
I have a bit of a gem (in my eyes). The Place-Names of England and Wales by James B. Johnson, printed in 1914. It explains in super detail how towns/villages/mountains/rivers in UK got their names from, a massive etymology and history of it all.
5- What is the newest book on my bookshelf?
The latest purchase is Azazel by Boris Akunin, a little Gothic - Victorian murder mystery with the purpose of leaning how to read Russian, but very gripping as far as I've gone to!
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings 3 volumes in one, 1140 pages. Which I have found in pristine condition as a giveaway on someone's fence. It started to rain 2 minutes after I picked it up!
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
The aforementioned Azazel is 100 pages.
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
Non-fiction I would have to say. Atlases, encyclopaedias, history, folklore, etc. When it comes to fiction, I prefer to buy books that I have already read and loved, this is my ideal library. The 50something books I have here on Goodreads on the 'favourites' shelf, thus far ^_^
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelves?
I have a rock the size of one's palm with an ammonite shape I found in Charmouth beach, my most favourite gift I ever received: a sculpture of a green apple the size of a baby's head. Everything else is just books :D. Oh and a massive folder with booklets, leaflets and receipts from various places I've visited. Oh (I had to turn around and check) I do now have a small vase with one pink gladiolus in bloom, which yesterday I idiotically broke by mistake whilst admiring it and thinking how nice that it bloomed as my mother in law is coming to visit us today, she'll really like it... /facepalm
This was a really enjoyable tag, it was cool making a bit of a survey of everything I had book wise and reading everyone's arrangements! All I can say is I need more! more! more! :D
I hereby tag Tania!
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1- How many bookshelves do you have?
I have 5 bookcases, plus several boxes of books and some more in storage.
2- How many books you think you have?
I would say 500+.
3- How do you organize your books?
Mostly by publisher, I have most of my old hardbacks together, then Folio, the Viragos, Persephones, old orange Penguins and Furrowed Middlebrows after that it gets a bit more random.
4- What is the oldest book on your bookshelf by the printing date?
Great Poems of the English Language which was my Grandfathers school prize, published in 1926.
5- What is the newest book acquired on your bookshelf?
Time After Time by Molly Keane
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
The Complete Saki, longest novel is The Crimson Petal and the White
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
The Snow Goose and The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
Middlebrow, mostly from between the wars.
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelf?
A few photos and knickknacks. Oh, and some bookends, so I can fit more books on top of the bookcases.
I'll nominate Jess.
Thanks for the tag, Tania! LOL- I feel like I'm about to bare some sins to the group in my utter lack of organization and knowledge of how many books I own! 1- How many bookshelves do you have?
I have (in my bedroom) an entire wall of built in shelves. So four from floor to ceiling. Two bed side tables that serve as collection stations with shelves beneath them. A small shelf for my oldest Nancy Drew books in my office. And a library swivel table with shelves in my living room.
2- How many books you think you have?
I have no earthly idea. Probably more than 400. I've been saying for years I need to catalog it all. I've been trying to be better this year in if I own a book I mark it on GR that I do. I've bought duplicates because I forget what I own... to which a certain bookish friend benefits from! LOL.
3- How do you organize your books?
Mostly be genre. Then by author.
4- What is the oldest book on your bookshelf by the printing date?
A tie: vintage 1901 Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim and 1901 Pictorial History of the United States- which I mainly bought for the cover and to use as seasonal decor.
5- What is the newest book acquired on your bookshelf?
All three arrived on the same day this week: to complete my Alma Classics Virginia Woolf set:
,
and
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
War and Peace- a whopping 1273 pages that I've been meaning to read for two years now.
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
A tie at 59 pages: my F. Warne and Co editions of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
Oh most definitely Middlebrow with a close second to mysteries.
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelf?
Lids to ironstone/transferware sugar bowls. I collect white ironstone sugar bowls/biscuit jars and always buy orphan lids with the hopes of matching them with their mates. So they decorate my shelves. Along with various crystals, rocks, a Lladro figurine of a little girl with her kitten, a small vintage globe, chart of moon phases, and on the topmost a pair of 1860's Staffordshire spaniels my husband bought as a surprise for me as a Christmas present the first year we were dating. He couldn't afford them at the time (both of us poor college kids) but somehow pulled it off at the antique shop when he knew I loved them so. I call them Gog and Magog being the Anne of Green Gables fan that I am.
I nominate Elke!
P.S. I love this entire thread! I've been enjoying learning about everyone through their bookshelves!
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I agree, I love getting to nose around other peoples bookshelves.
That Delafield looks tempting.
Thanks for the tag, Jess!I need to do some calculating...hold, please...
How many bookshelves do you have?I seem to have 24 bookcases all varying in size from a one shelf slanted antique to 5 tall IKEA Billy cases of 6 shelves each. I also shelve books in between cases as if they are in an invisible case in the Between.
Many of my bookshelves have books double-parked.
Oh, and I have another bookcase on order.
[I feel like admitting all of this publicly may result in an intervention]
How many books you think you have?
Of my Read books, I have cataloged 1,400 on my LibraryThing account but I believe that is only about one-third of my total. So I have maybe 4,000, methinks.
I also have a bad habit of buying alternate or foreign editions of favorite books if the covers delight me.
I separate my ‘to-be-read’ books on their own shelves. I track those like the type A that I am and have 521 books on the physical TBR bookcase. Previous to the covid lockdown, I used to be able to turn my back on them when sitting on the couch to avoid their accusatory stares, but now due to where my work-from-home desk is set up, they taunt me daily being in my direct line of sight. My attention often drifts during zoom meetings to stare longingly at them…reaching out to wonder why I have not read THAT one yet…
And please do not assume I live in a Pemberley size abode. I have a 732 sq ft one bedroom with every inch of wall covered by bookcases. That is why some bookcases are only 12 inches wide – to fit in the last possible available space!
And I do not keep all books I read. I donate a good amount to my library store to pay it forward a bit.
Collections of note:
- 29 Persephone books
- 45 Folio Society books/sets (only 8 of the 12 Lang Fairy Tales Folios though – the last 4 are impossible to find!)
- Full set of almost antique editions of The Happy Hollisters, my favorite series as a child
- Harry Potter #1 in 33 languages. From Hebrew to Japanese to Scots Gaelic to Faroese and Estonian. I ordered many back in the early 2000s as they came out but also received some from travelling friends and on my own vacations. Was hoping to get Icelandic this summer but covid postponed that trip. Fingers crossed I still get there and that copy someday!
How do you organize your books?
By genre and then mostly alphabetical. But this system has been chipped away at as I try now to fit them best for space.
I have 1 shelf that is a rainbow, and another right above that rainbow that is all white covers. Those are my only whimsically shelved shelves.
What is the oldest book on your bookshelf by the printing date?
1834 – German edition of Geschichte des Kaisers Napoleon (History of Napoleon)
I cannot read it, but I love the antique German type that looks like script
1874 – Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
This edition was gifted to me by my grandfather on my 21st birthday. This copy had been in his family since it was new and probably sold to them by a travelling salesman.
What is the newest book acquired on your bookshelf?
Agatha Christie’s Caribbean Mystery arrived just today! But since that is due to this group, I think it should not count.
My second newest is The House in the Cerulean Sea
What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
Longest book I have read is The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser at 1,250 pages. A college read that I kept because it felt like such an accomplishment to finish! Please don’t ask me for a review
Longest Unread book = hmmm, I will disqualify the Complete Shakespeare at 1,775 pp because I have no intention of ever reading it cover to cover, also my Encyclopedia of Southern Culture at 1,650 pp because it is a reference book…
So The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon at 680 seems the longest book on my TBR shelf.
What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman.
I am a sucker for those tiny published commencement speeches that inspire. And I love Neil Gaiman. This book clocks in at 80 pages technically, but it is very designy with sometimes only a word or phrase on a page. So it’s short. But says so much. I think I am going to reread it right now to brighten my day a bit…
What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
Fantasy and travel (both guides & photography)
Do you have other things on your bookshelf?
SO many tchotchkes! I love how items can trigger a memory or a feeling from travel souvenirs to rocks/crystals to toys. My mom is German so I have a penchant for pewter and wood carvings, with repeating themes being gnomes, castles, dragons, and mushrooms. Be careful opening that fairy door on that bookshelf…
You can show us a photo of your bookshelf if you want
I would love to bore you with pictures if I could figure out how to add them to GR!
I did orchestrate a very cool Zoom background photo with my favorite antique bookcase and an assortment of my Folio editions and a few Persephones. My coworkers did not think it was real and assumed that I just stole the photo off the internet!
I would like to tag Michaela – if you have not been tagged yet?
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They´re all so interesting, and I agree about a mutual visit with browsing of books! :)Thanks for the tag Elke, will have to think of it! :)
Such an interesting post! So great to share in all these books! Never too many!
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Just not enough bookshelves/bookcases. : )
Oops, I nearly forgot to post my answers! ;)1- How many bookshelves do you have? One big and three smaller ones, but we recently got new bookshelves to put the books lying on the floor and those to come into them. ;)
2- How many books you think you have? 1000?
3- How do you organize your books? Genre and within that approximate birthyear of author.
4- What is the oldest book on your bookshelf by the printing date? A collection of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries from about 1900, translated into German and with beautiful pics, from my late Dad.
5- What is the newest book acquired on your bookshelf? Not on my bookshelf, but the book I aquired today To the Lighthouse.
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf? Harenberg. Das Buch der 1000 Bücher. Autoren, Geschichte, Inhalt und Wirkung, about 1250 pages.
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf? One of my Reclam mass paper backs in German, Sieben gegen Theben, 48 small pages, including introduction and comments.
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf? Classics.
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelf? No - no space for anything else! ;)
10- You can show us a photo of your bookshelf if you want.
That´s my biggest bookshelf with two or three rows in each square, books to the left and right and on the floor. ;)
I tag Heather! :)
Good Lord, Michaela! Where do you sit?
Years ago we moved to new house
and boxes of books were lost, some
from my mother's childhood. 😥
I'm with Tracey, I would love to
pursue each of your bookshelves.
Back when life was normal, did
anyone else peek at bookshelves
at other people's homes? 🙋
Absolutely! I am a total shelf spy. Bookshelves tell me more about a person than anything they say.But that may also be why I rarely invite people over - I feel myself exposed if people can see my shelves!
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I always check out the bookcases at the country houses I visit. I William Morris had an interesring collection, and in one of the bedrooms at Leacock Abbey there is a large collection of old Georgette Heyer books. I think they'd notice if I borrowed a few.
I love looking at other people’s shelves too! What I want to know is what WON’T I find on your shelf??
Heather wrote: "I love looking at other people’s shelves too! What I want to know is what WON’T I find on your shelf??"Horror f.e., science-fiction, hardly any dystopy, science...
Michaela, I’m with you. If there’s horror or sci-fi on my shelf it’s because it’s in a Foreign Language and I didn’t realize what I got. 😁
Brenda wrote: "Michaela, I’m with you. If there’s horror or sci-fi on my shelf it’s because it’s in a Foreign Language and I didn’t realize what I got. 😁"Hee-hee, that´s funny Brenda! :D
Brenda 🤣😂! Does that include Dracula? Or modern horror? For me no cheap romances, stream-of-consciousness, comics, autobiographies, sugar free cookbooks, only a couple vetted Stephen King books. Oh and absolutely no Japanese horror. 20 years ago I accidentally stumbled on an old book of collected Japanese horror stories, and I’m still terrified and revolted. It was the only book I ever had to get as far away from as possible.
Heather wrote: Brenda 🤣😂! Does that include Dracula? Or modern horror? 😂 modern horror! Although I’ve still not read Dracula or Frankenstein but I would at some point. That Japanese horror book sounds AWFUL! I’m a little curious though what was the premise, or what made it so revolting?
I think I know what you mean about “stream of consciousness” I’m trying to read Proust and sometimes I want to poke my eyeballs out! At least I’ve switched to audio. But I committed to read the whole thing and I want to see it through.
Heather wrote: "I love looking at other people’s shelves too! What I want to know is what WON’T I find on your shelf??"Great question! Horror and thrillers. My brain is fully able of creating scary thoughts and ideas without any assistance from authors.
Heather wrote: "sugar free cookbooks..."Unless one is diabetic (and with my profuse sympathies) this type of cookbook belongs in its own horror genre
Primrose Jess wrote: "Heather wrote: "sugar free cookbooks..."Unless one is diabetic (and with my profuse sympathies) this type of cookbook belongs in its own horror genre"
😂🤣 JESS. you are funny.
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Where do you sit?
Years ago we moved to new house
and boxes of books were lost, some
from my mother's childhood. 😥
I'm with Tracey, I would love to
pursue each of your book..."
Haha, you caught me out. Yes I do look at other people's books if I can.
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Horror, erotica, noir crime books. Anything dark really I don't like. I have read a few dystopian books but don't have any on my shelf or in my boxes.
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For me no cheap romances, stream-of-consciousness, comics, autobiographies, sugar free cookbooks, only a couple vetted Stephen King books. O..."
My son pointed out how some Japanese things are quite dark like Anime films.
Anyone who hasn´t done this yet, want to tell us about her bookshelves? :)
I think I need to add a dedicated bookshelf to the LL reads as I've purchased quite a few books since I've joined from the influences I've found here :)
Very BAD influences for my book budget, for sure!
Michaela wrote: "Anyone who hasn´t done this yet, want to tell us about her bookshelves? :)"I can do it when I get home tonight.
1- How many bookshelves do you have? I have one large bookshelf for regular English books, two smaller for my cookbooks, which I consider reading material as well, and one other smaller for my growing collection of French language books2- How many books you think you have? About 200 (not counting the cookbooks :)) )
I used to have hundreds more, and two more bigger bookcases, but I also used to move a lot, and let me tell you, people don't like moving books. I also decided to pare down some, so whatever I could get as an eBook whether free or low cost, I did and donated those books. So I do have a pretty big library on my Kindle.
3- How do you organize your books? I organize them by genre or country or time period.
4- What is the oldest book on your bookshelf by the printing date? The copyright date is 1900 and there is no other date, so I'm putting it there. It's a French Language book, Moliere's L'Avare
5- What is the newest book acquired on your bookshelf? French Language again, I just bought a few... one is a series by Elena Ferrante
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf? If you consider just one book War and Peace although I do have the whole of Proust, which I consider separate books, but they are one In Search of Lost Time
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?Rene Descartes Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf? Historical Fiction probably
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelf? My bookshelf used to be my grandparents, I'm not sure its an actual "bookshelf" but it has a nice door to hide things in and I do have a vase, a bamboo plant, clock and votives on top. Other than that, books!
10- You can show us a photo of your bookshelf if you want.
Hopefully this works...
Ok, I'm not quite sure how to post the actual photo, I will try the link...https://imgur.com/a/gweHZW7
Brenda wrote: "Ok, I'm not quite sure how to post the actual photo, I will try the link...https://imgur.com/a/gweHZW7"
Hi Brenda,
I like your bookcase, it's nice and deep.
It is hard to loose a boxes of books,
I read cookbooks too.🙊
Is that the Proust collection on the
bottom, center shelf?
I have yet to read Proust
Thank you, Brenda.
Philina wrote: "Michaela wrote: "Anyone who hasn´t done this yet, want to tell us about her bookshelves? :)"I can do it when I get home tonight."
Hi Philina,
We look forward to your tag.
Ruth wrote: Hi Brenda,I like your bookcase, it's nice and deep.
It is hard to loose a boxes of books,
I read cookbooks too.🙊
Is that the Proust collection on the
bottom, center shelf?
I have yet to read Proust
Thank you!! I do love my bookcase and that it was my grandparents as well. It’s such a nice reminder!
I love to read cookbooks! They are basically an autobiography of people and food. I love food and love people who love food as much or more as I do, so am usually enthralled when they write about it.
Yes, that’s the big Proust set. Next to my LeCarré set. I’m afraid they’re mismatched. 😉
He’s interesting to read, although difficult. I am on a mission to read it all and had to switch to audio. I think it would be better in its original language but my French is not that good. I’m just hoping at the end it’s finally revealed why I’m reading it.
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This is going to be a monthly game of tag about books. Each month I will post a series of questions and then tag a member to answer them. You can answer one or more or none at all and tag another member. If you get tagged and really don't want to be part of this, please state, and hopefully, you won't get tagged again.
Once you have been tagged and answered you then tag another member to answer the questions. If someone gets tagged I will message them to let them know, unless of course, the member sees the tag before I do :)
I hope this will be fun.
This month's tag questions are about your books at home:
QUESTIONS:
1- How many bookshelves do you have?
2- How many books you think you have?
3- How do you organize your books?
4- What is the oldest book on your bookshelf by the printing date?
5- What is the newest book acquired on your bookshelf?
6- What is the longest book on your bookshelf?
7- What is the shortest book on your bookshelf?
8- What is the predominant genre on your bookshelf?
9- Do you have other things on your bookshelf?
10- You can show us a photo of your bookshelf if you want.