I set up all my books to be be photographed. But before I could do so...



I dumped Alex off the sofa and tried again:



I dumped Alex more forcefully off the sofa and tried again:



Multiple blurry cats-on-books-pics later, I finally achieved this. Enjoy it, because it only lasted for as long as it took me to hit the button:

sholio: Black cat with autumn leaves (Halloween-black cat)

From: [personal profile] sholio


Awww, I think the cat actually adds to the photo, myself! These books are CAT APPROVED.
Edited Date: 2018-09-17 08:14 pm (UTC)
sholio: Black cat with autumn leaves (Halloween-black cat)

From: [personal profile] sholio


I was very concerned that he was blocking the Weis & Hickman books.

LOL, I didn't even see those, I was looking at the cat! I begin to see the problem here. (You found Rose of the Prophet! I need to find mine - I'm almost positive I have those in the attic somewhere. I remember so little about them now that it'd be fun to read them together.)

That icon is from [livejournal.com profile] roxicons (a lot of mine come from there, that I didn't make myself). They have tons, so there might be some other cat ones!
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From: [personal profile] osprey_archer


Aaaah, I loved roxicons back in the day! I now feel a temptation to dive in and plunder a few icons from the icon hoard for old times sake...
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

From: [personal profile] sholio


I'm happy to see they still have all their icons online (for now, anyway!). So many of the old icon LJs have vanished.
ambyr: a dark-winged man standing in a doorway over water; his reflection has white wings (watercolor by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law) (Default)

From: [personal profile] ambyr


Under which letter will you alphabetize the cat when you shelve him?
rydra_wong: Lee Miller photo showing two women wearing metal fire masks in England during WWII. (Default)

From: [personal profile] rydra_wong


Whichever letter he chooses.

I once knew a small angry cat who liked to shelve herself in spaces between books which were visibly too small to be comfortable, and then sit there being aggrieved.

This was not a box situation where the too-smallness was pleasing. These were spaces chosen for indignation.

(Or possibly they were secretly pleasing, but she wasn't going to let us know that.)
ambyr: a dark-winged man standing in a doorway over water; his reflection has white wings (watercolor by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law) (Default)

From: [personal profile] ambyr


One of my cats likes to hide behind the books on the bookshelf, which causes my other cat confusion:

ambyr: a dark-winged man standing in a doorway over water; his reflection has white wings (watercolor by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law) (Default)

From: [personal profile] ambyr


Yes! I keep telling her she's misfiling herself, but she ignores me. (To be fair to her, I don't have enough books with gray spines to have a gray section--they just go in the overflow bookcase upstairs with beige and random color splotches.)
rydra_wong: Lee Miller photo showing two women wearing metal fire masks in England during WWII. (Default)

From: [personal profile] rydra_wong


It must make a very satisfactory lair! Hidden, but with a good view of everything going on.
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)

From: [personal profile] luzula


Jirel of Joiry! That one is in my bookshelf. And of course, Tove Jansson is always lovely.
julian: Picture of the sign for Julian Street. (Default)

From: [personal profile] julian


What a lot of Blyton! Adventure ahead!

(This is Weis and Hickman after I quit them. Let us know if they're dire?)
Edited Date: 2018-09-17 08:55 pm (UTC)
julian: Picture of the sign for Julian Street. (Default)

From: [personal profile] julian


Well, then I hope you still do.

(The last I read of theirs was the Darksword books, which I went back and re-read about a decade ago, and that core of mutinously fabulous angst was still there.)
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From: [personal profile] sovay


I set up all my books to be be photographed. But before I could do so...

Good cat!

(Finn Family Moomintroll is the first Tove Jansson I ever read.)
Edited (clarity) Date: 2018-09-17 09:00 pm (UTC)
cyphomandra: boats in Auckland Harbour. Blue, blocky, cheerful (boats)

From: [personal profile] cyphomandra


Ooh. Great spoils. (And yay for cat approval!) I read Moominsummer Madness many years before I ever encountered Midsummer Night’s Dream and was entranced but baffled by all the references. And Blyton’s Adventure series were always my favourites (completely over the top, esp Mountain).
cyphomandra: fractured brooding landscape (Default)

From: [personal profile] cyphomandra


Yes! My memory is hazy but I think it’s in a secret mountain in Wales or somewhere equally likely?
cyphomandra: fractured brooding landscape (Default)

From: [personal profile] cyphomandra


....how is a MOUNTAIN secret?

A small sign saying “this is not a mountain”?

rydra_wong: Lee Miller photo showing two women wearing metal fire masks in England during WWII. (Default)

From: [personal profile] rydra_wong


Hidden behind the other mountains?

(Which, in Wales, is not completely implausible.)
mllelaurel: (Default)

From: [personal profile] mllelaurel


An excellent assortment of books! (And a Hamilcat, insisting on having his opinion on them heard.)
torachan: (Default)

From: [personal profile] torachan


Oh wow, I've never seen Enid Blyton books in the US!

What bookstore did you go to? I'm not even aware of any more used bookstores in the area.
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From: [personal profile] torachan


Aw, bummer. I was hoping it was somewhere local.

In recent years I've been all about the ebooks and hardly ever buying physical books, but now that I have my own Little Free Library I'm thinking more about buying physical books again so I can have a constant stream of new books to put in it when necessary.
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From: [personal profile] eglantiere


ololol. the struggle is real! :3
swingandswirl: image of a stick figure made out of books of different colours, with the words 'book monster' over its head. (bookmonster)

From: [personal profile] swingandswirl


Eee, Enid Blyton! Those books were my childhood and now I want to go reread Malory Towers. Or perhaps the Adventure series. She has so many I could never keep them all straight.

Also, your kitty has good taste :)
carbonel: Beth wearing hat (Default)

From: [personal profile] carbonel


I'm very fond of Charlotte Sometimes. It combines two of my favorite things -- school settings and portal fantasies (in this case, time travel as portal). And it's so very British.

It was a used-bookstore discovery from (IIRC) my 1987 three-month trip to the UK. That was the one where I returned with something like three boxes of books, and I am exceedingly grateful to whatever airline I traveled that I wasn't charged for excess baggage.

(Some friends and I had rented a flat in the south suburbs of London for two months, and the landlord obligingly stored most of my stuff for the final month when I traveled all around England, Wales, and Scotland. Getting all that from the flat to the train to Heathrow was hellish, but it was made worthwhile by the train attendant who helped me wrangle boxes, and asked sympathetically, "Boyfriend left you, luv?" Which should have been annoying, but totally cracked me up.)
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