I still have shelving to do, but I got inspired by Annabel from Annabel’s House of Books’ post on her TBR rainbow to whip my TBR out onto the floor (having photographed it first so I could maintain the order) and put it in the order of the rainbow! And here it is! Sadly, it’s come out a bit blurry, but hopefully you get the idea.
In its usual form, books do butt up against each other oddly, as I keep it in order of acquisition, and I do tend to acquire fairly randomly, unless a set of Viragoes arrives with me, all neat with their green spines (and all together here, too). Sporting biographies have come together but Edith Sitwell nestles next to Mark Twain, some books on Iceland are still together (Laxness and Byatt’s Ragnarok) and some which weren’t together are now (Butterflies in November, Moon Country and The Greenlanders).
Even though the Viragoes are all of the same vintage, the colour variations show up, and although it’s heavily weighted towards green by them, does everyone have so few purple books, or is it just me?
And, of course, there isn’t just a rainbow – white, cream, brown, grey and black feature, too. So here they are. These seem very varied, London War Notes meeting an explorer who might find a novel cure in reading about pop music.
Well, there we go – that was fun, and I got them all into the correct order again. Anyone else for a go? And did anything surprise you from the back end of my TBR that doesn’t usually see the light of day?
Mar 25, 2016 @ 17:40:48
I’m just so impressed that you got that stack to stay upright – not to mention impressed at the length of the photo! Neither my stacking skills nor my photography skills would be up to the job, I fear… though since most of my TBR is on the Kindle my stack wouldn’t be so high anyway.
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Mar 25, 2016 @ 17:46:25
Ha – it’s leaning back against a chest of drawers, and I took a normal photo and cropped it! But thank you! And yes, the Kindle is thankfully invisible …
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Mar 25, 2016 @ 17:47:53
You’ve spoiled the magic now… 😉
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Mar 25, 2016 @ 17:49:04
Oooookay … I held the pile up by the force of my librarianly wisdom and took the photo with my special taking-photos-of-piles-of-books camera. That better? I don’t like to disappoint!
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Mar 25, 2016 @ 17:50:28
Haha! Much better! I knew you must be fibbing the first time…!
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Mar 25, 2016 @ 20:24:40
What lovely looking piles of books! And isn’t it amazing how the green of the Viragos varies so much?
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Mar 26, 2016 @ 12:37:29
It is, isn’t it, but I supppose they live in different places and get different sunlight on them too.
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Mar 25, 2016 @ 21:49:58
Wow. I couldn’t do that with my books it would fall on me and kill me. I love all those greenies 😊
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Mar 26, 2016 @ 12:38:24
Ha, well they are leaning back on the chest of drawers and they did waver, and all of them wouldn’t go in one big pile. Lots of those greens were from Verity’s clear-out – I didn’t mean to get all big ones OOPS. Might save them for a lovely green August!
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Mar 26, 2016 @ 11:23:17
I do love a photo of a big pile of books!
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Mar 26, 2016 @ 12:38:44
Glad to be of assistance in providing happiness!
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Mar 27, 2016 @ 09:51:53
A nice mix of books there, I fear any stacks I would have would soon topple over mainly because I have a rubbish sense of balance and my need for Jenga like taking of books that interest me.
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