tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post115337686911750950..comments2024-03-27T02:00:49.152-04:00Comments on Kate's Book Blog: Which Authors Dominate Your Bookshelves?Kate S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16897618197257393697noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153957592519560812006-07-26T19:46:00.000-04:002006-07-26T19:46:00.000-04:00I have the somewhat interesting problem of so ofte...I have the somewhat interesting problem of so often giving away books I've read (my family are all mooches-- but well read ones) that my bookshelves make me look like a total poseur who buys everything and reads nothing. So the question becomes, who have I read the most by that I am sufficiently jealous of keeping their books so that I still have them? I think Patrick O'Brian wins that one, with, oddly enough, Joris Karl Huysmans placing second (but then his are hard enough to find that one hates to let them go-- and who else would like them anyway). Oh, and maybe Thorne Smith for similar reasons, but completely different pleasures. I'm sure I'm the only person to ever cite those three names in the same paragraph.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398730540934226860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153880113757493482006-07-25T22:15:00.000-04:002006-07-25T22:15:00.000-04:00At the moment (low on shelf space, so now and then...At the moment (low on shelf space, so now and then an author's work is donated to a local library to make room for a new one; the churning is constant): Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Robert Heinlein, Harlan Ellison, Henry James, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Flannery O'Connor, Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, J. P. Marquand, Richard Russo, Tim O'Brien, William Goldman, Jack Finney, Shirley Jackson, Thomas Williams, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Ray Bradbury, John O'Hara, Joseph Epstein, Gerald Kersh, Theodore Sturgeon, Jon Hassler, V. S. Pritchett, Jorge Luis Borges, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, John D. MacDonald, Fredric Brown, James Tiptree, Dan Simmons, Evan Hunter, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Cornell Woolrich, and others on the back shelves and in the ebook files I'm overlooking right now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153515732813612312006-07-21T17:02:00.000-04:002006-07-21T17:02:00.000-04:00Dominating: Dorothy Allison, Ruth M. Arthur, Allis...Dominating: Dorothy Allison, Ruth M. Arthur, Allison Bechdel, Helen Boylston, Orson Scott Card, Charles Dickens, Annie Dillard, Gerald Durrell, Edward Eager, Elizabeth Enright, Walter Farley, Robert Heinlein, Russell Hoban, Norma Johnston, Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeleine L'Engle, Maud Hart Lovelace, Robert McCloskey, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ogden Nash, Sharon Olds, Philip Pullman, Spider Robinson, Sara Teasdale, J.R.R.Tolkien, Garry Trudeau, & Mark Twain. <BR/><BR/>I file by author, mixing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, & comics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153498140642761512006-07-21T12:09:00.000-04:002006-07-21T12:09:00.000-04:00I love the idea of an author's poetry and fiction ...I love the idea of an author's poetry and fiction books being side-by-side. Very radical!<BR/><BR/>On my overstuffed, doubled-up shelves, Samuel Beckett gets his only single-layer shelf. Mervyn Peake and Patricia Highsmith share another.<BR/><BR/>I have a vast collection of Opal Louis Nations and his Strange Faeces imprint, but these are in boxes: most are stapled books and chapbooks, and I haven't figured out how to make the accessible yet.<BR/><BR/>Another collection is comprised of jwcurry's various imprints, but they're in clusters all over my apartment, also undisplayable in my current quarters.<BR/><BR/>The other major collections: James Tate, David McFadden, Bill Knott, Charles Bukowski, David Grubb, Tom Clark, B.S. Johnson, John Fante, Gilbert Sorrentino, A.L. Kennedy, Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene, A.M. Homes, bpNichol, Joe Rosenblatt, Sharon Olds, Mark Strand, M.A.C. Farrant. Lots of others (in the five-books-and-over category).<BR/><BR/>The New York Poets get two single-layer shelves, but really need three: focus is on Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, Kenward Elmslie, John Ashbery, Joe Brainard, Kenneth Koch.<BR/><BR/>The listing of books my single-author quantity is deceptive. I have only one book by Demetrio Aguilera-Malta (Seven Serpents and Seven Moons), but it's one of my favourite things ever written. Same goes for Leonard Gardner (Fat City -- did he write anything else?). Oh, and Lisa Shea (Hula -- one of the most perfect novels I've read): same category.Razovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02204691525944577597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153493347963455992006-07-21T10:49:00.000-04:002006-07-21T10:49:00.000-04:00Your library makes me want to move in. What a grea...Your library makes me want to move in. What a great space.<BR/><BR/>My dominant authors: Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, Sherman Alexie, Peter Hoeg. However, I should note, we're so cramped for space, a 'dominant author' is usually about four books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153445430490709602006-07-20T21:30:00.000-04:002006-07-20T21:30:00.000-04:00Beautiful shelves full of books! Here are my domin...Beautiful shelves full of books! Here are <A HREF="http://somanybooks.blogspot.com/2005/09/count.html" REL="nofollow">my dominate authors</A>.Stefaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14943596258182968212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153439486358329822006-07-20T19:51:00.000-04:002006-07-20T19:51:00.000-04:00Looks familiar. ;)Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Do...Looks familiar. ;)<BR/><BR/>Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Doris Betts, A.S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Jim Crace, John Crowley, Don DeLillo, Clyde Edgerton, Karen Joy Fowler, Haven Kimmel, Lorrie Moore, Bharati Mukherjee, Richard Powers, Francine Prose, Richard Russo, Jane Smiley, Lee Smith.JohnMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06914247413173907582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153425332651049712006-07-20T15:55:00.000-04:002006-07-20T15:55:00.000-04:00Let's see -- Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Mary McC...Let's see -- Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Mary McCarthy, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe. I don't think I own enough books.Rebecca H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10825532162727473112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153420904453984152006-07-20T14:41:00.000-04:002006-07-20T14:41:00.000-04:00I spent far too long considering this today. Domin...I spent far too long considering this today. Domination by Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anita Brookner, Alice Thomas Ellis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Alison Lurie, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Trapido, Anne Tyler, Virginia Woolf. It's clear that the women have it. For French and lit crit it's not so clear cut - Colette and Duras, but also Camus and Sartre, Balzac and Flaubert, Louis Aragon, Barthes, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.litlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952927245186474480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153418676526208532006-07-20T14:04:00.000-04:002006-07-20T14:04:00.000-04:00Domination by: Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Je...Domination by: Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, Carol Emschwiller, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jane Austen, George R. R. Martin, George Eliot, Dorothy Dunnett... :-)<BR/><BR/>I really wish I had the space to have all my books out on shelves. As it is they're packed away in dozens of boxes...this makes me sad. :-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153417625595871752006-07-20T13:47:00.000-04:002006-07-20T13:47:00.000-04:00I love your shelves, Kate!Dominating authors: Anne...I love your shelves, Kate!<BR/><BR/>Dominating authors: Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Bill Watterson, Larry McMurtry, Jane Smiley. Rebecca West should be a dominating force by fall.SFPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439972994357205049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153407500178766752006-07-20T10:58:00.000-04:002006-07-20T10:58:00.000-04:00Authors dominating my bookshelves: Hemingway, Faul...Authors dominating my bookshelves: Hemingway, Faulkner, Frank Conroy, Denis Johnson, Tom Grimes, Larry McMurtry. (All males, I know. I wish I could add Francine Prose and Jane Smiley, but I don't meet the more than five books criteria; actually, I have to delete Denis Johnson, and Grimes because I only have four of their books, if I'm recalling correctly.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153407348125852872006-07-20T10:55:00.000-04:002006-07-20T10:55:00.000-04:00I love that picture.Dominating authors on my shelf...I love that picture.<BR/><BR/>Dominating authors on my shelf (almost typed "myself"): Marcel Proust, Thomas Hardy, Philip Roth, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, W. Somerset Maugham.<BR/><BR/>Wow, I'm quite the sexist/chauvinist. Better work on that....AChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04972889199133565938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153404710822908082006-07-20T10:11:00.000-04:002006-07-20T10:11:00.000-04:00I'm glad I'm not the only one with reorganization ...I'm glad I'm not the only one with reorganization dilemmas! Authors that dominate: Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Trollope, Margaret Atwood, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Margaret Drabble, A.S. Byatt, Saul Bellow, Hilary Mantel, Iris Murdoch, George Eliot, Jane Urquhart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1153397593592835792006-07-20T08:13:00.000-04:002006-07-20T08:13:00.000-04:00Authors dominating my bookshelf: Kobo Abe, Roland ...Authors dominating my bookshelf: Kobo Abe, Roland Barthes, J.G. Ballard, Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, bpNichol, Richard Powers, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon, Gilbert Sorrentino.melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14508714304571777745noreply@blogger.com