The house has bookshelves everywhere, but the one in my office is kind of like the RAM to their SSD, the stuff I want to have close at hand for reference or as my next entertainment.
The top shelf holds all of my books, including the ones to which I have contributed over the years (that would be the Wild Cards novels, the Love Death + Robots anthology, and the Unidentified Funny Objects volume.)
The middle shelf is my current TBR pile, plus a few quick reference books and stuff I want to read again.
The bottom shelf is for books from writer friends as well as some signed copies.
(There’s another shelf below that for large-format books and my Holy Scripture–the Calvin & Hobbes and Far Side compendiums. And the top shelf is filled with the positively unwise amount of A5-sized notebooks I stocked up on just in case the manufacturer suddenly stops producing them.)
I came here to say that I was excited for you to read Tana French’s stuff and saw I wasn’t the first! I’ll gladly second the thought – her mixing of character work with mystery plotting and beautiful, yet readable language is outstanding.
Lots of books I love are also on your shelves. Don’t wait to read Tana French’s work. You are missing out!
Hello Mr. Kloos,
Big fan here – I made a video about you:
And speaking of “Far Side Compendium”, I always thought it would be a Most Worthy Project to do a multi-level index to that book. For example, entries for “Caveman”, “Thag”, “Thagomizer”, “Stegosaurus”, “Dinosaur” would all include pointers to the same (famous) cartoon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
A quote I stole from LinkedIn:
” One of my favorite Japanese concepts I’ve come across is tsundoku, or the art of buying books and letting them pile up unread.” I responded to that, “What percentage of books on your shelves are unread? I’m guessing mine is about 30%” My to-be-read pile keeps on growing, lots of good stuff on late Roman Republic/early Empire period. Every time I read one of those, there’s references to 2 more I want to read.
Quite interesting! Thanks. I guess I’m not the only one with a few TBR books . And I have C&H and far side collections as well.
Who is this George R. R. Martin fellow that authored several books in your collection?
Yes, I joke