{20/365}

I really like this idea but it would be so hard to figure out which books I loved enough to have its own custom spot built for it.

{19/365} Creative Bookends

I love creative bookends.  I want all of these.  I think my favorite is either the giraffe or the vines getting the girl. 

{18/365} What Book Are You Reading?

This is so true!!! Nothing more to say.

{17/365} Vertical Bookshelf

I've always liked these bookshelves.  They look simple enough that you could even DIY this project.  I have the floating bookshelves already and love them.  Maybe I'll get one of these next.

{16/365} Secret Library

I think this would be so cool.  Have a book case that opens to stairs that are lined with more bookshelves that leads up stairs to a library!! 

{15/365} A Truck Load Of Books

Mine would obviously say Barnes & Noble but this is how I feel every year after Christmas. I always get so much in gift cards (YAY!).  I feel like a truck load of books show up at my house.

{14/365} Book Headboard

I'm one of the biggest lovers of books that I know but I just do not like this headboard.  Its looks awful. I don't even think anyone I know would like it.  I'm sure there can be a cool looking book headboard but this is not it.  Maybe I'll keep looking

{13/365} In All The Crannies And All The Nooks

I love Dr. Seuss.

{12/365} The Espresso Book Machine

"A new vending machine has been released which can print any book within minutes. The Espresso Book Machine has access to 500,000 different books and can even churn out a fresh copy of Crime and Punishment in just nine minutes. Pages are printed at a rate of over 100 per minute & are then pressed, glued & cut to produce a pristine book. Users simply pick the book they would like on a screen and wait for it to be printed … it certainly is a novel way of getting a new book."

I have a Powells Bookstore a few hours away from me with one of these machines. I will do this some day. 

{11/365} Book Beanstock

This raises a lot of questions in my mind:

• How is this (I like to call it) book beanstock supported?
• How many books are in it?
• What books are in it?
• Did the artist keep track of titles, authors, number of books or just find a bunch of books and build?
• How are they kept together? That metal railing looks close enough that people could still touch it/pull on it.
• How tall is it?
• How did they get it in there?
• Does it get skinnier at the top or is it all the same size?
• Is there a plaque or something that explains it?
• Where is it?
• Is it solid or hollow on the inside?
• Who built it?
• Won't the pages turn yellow eventually?
• Are the pages coated or something so that they can't turn yellow? 
• Were these all brand new books when it was built?
• Why so many books about Abraham Lincoln? I see at least 4 in this picture.

I know these are all questions that I could probably google but I just want to know right now! Maybe I'll look these questions up someday and I'll come back and update this post with the answers. But not like…anytime soon...

{10/365} Stolen Books

I find this to be interesting.  It makes me feel like I'm missing out on something because I only (from top to bottom):

Own: Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Choke

Have Read: None

Considered Buying: The Kurt Vonnegut Books

That means that over 20 books are good enough to be stolen consistently and I've never even considered looking into them.  That's craziness to me.  

{9/365} Bibliobibuli

There is no such thing.  I do think there is however, such thing as a person who reads too little.

{8/356} TypNO

You have editors for a reason. If they can't do their job, who can? Enough said.

{7/365} Polyhedral? Homemade? Tetris?

I love this picture.  I've seen a chair similar to the polyhedral (I'll do that post later), its my DREAM to have a secret book case in my house, I've made my fair share of handmade bookshelves and right now I have so many books and so few shelves I feel like I'm playing Tetris to get them all to fit.  This is perfect.

{6/365} Movie vs. Book

If you are a reader than you understand. I just want every detail and every unimportant event to be incorporated.  Oh! He talked to this person when walking to work in the book? Well why isn't in the movie!?

However, I never go into a movie expecting it to be as good as the book. I know better.  But one day I hope there is a movie that is as good as the book.

Fun Fact: The movies are never as good as the book because they have to change the movie by 30% or something so it's not considered copyright. 

{5/365} I Can't Have You

I'm just going to let this one speak for itself.  It's me in a nutshell.

{4/365} Must Be Magic

Did you do as it says? Crazy huh? This is part of why I love books.  You can sound like anything in your mind.  When you read a book you can have a zillion different voices.  Very few of which you would actually be able to say out loud.  I tried the old man voice out loud…its not the same…not even close. You can be anyone you want to be in a book.  Must be magic.

{3/365} I've Got Nothing To Read!!!

This is me 100%. Red hair and all.  Every time I finish a book I feel like I have nothing to read.  In actuality, I probably have close to 50 books I need to read.  I stock up at Christmas and then every time I walk into a book store. At Christmas the main gift I ask for are gift cards to Barnes & Noble. This year I bought 10 books.  Then, whenever I walk into a book store I always leave with at least 1 book.  It's a disease, I swear.   

{2/365} How Many Lives do you Lead?

This is so true!!! I feel like I've been so many things! I've ben sick with cancer, in love with vampires, lost in a world populated by twisted fairytales, addicted to drugs, alive in the 1920's, friends with Gatsby, schooled at Hogwarts; the list goes on and on.  80% of Americans didn't even buy a book in the last year.  80%!!! That's such a high percentage!!! It's mind blowing to me. I couldn't imagine not buying or reading a book for a whole year.

{1/365} Author, Title, or Color?

That is the question.  Having so many books, I often wonder how to organize them.  The most typical way (and how I currently have them) is by author. However, I rarely know the authors of the books I read.  I remember the title and color no problem.  But the authors, not so much, unless the book blows me away and I LOVE it.  Then I remember who wrote it.  So this whole color coordinated thing kind of fascinates me.  I think that I need a couple hundred more book though.  I think I'm almost to 200 books.  Maybe I'll try it one day.  

On the flip side, what do I do about book series? I can't split the series up just because they are different colors…. *sigh* Someday I'll figure it out.

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