My friend Sue has started a really cool project over at exposeyourshelf.blogspot.com. She is collecting pictures of people's book shelves and hopes one day to manage the worlds largest collection of bookshelf pictures. The project has only recently begun, and she already has a pretty cool collection of bookshelf pictures. You can learn a lot about someone from what books they choose to share their space with. Head on over and have a look, and send in your bookshelf pictures!
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The bookshelf displays only a slight sliver of time and place at any given moment, and allows the observer only a few inferences about us. It reveals both the content and the structure of our lives simultaneously. Who we are. What we think. How we organize, if at all. It contains books, yes, but also memories and outrage, tears and photos, secrets and flummery. The bookshelf may seem permanent and timeless, but unless you are a stagnant human being, your library has mutated over the course of your lifetime. People change. So do their bookshelves.
What a cool project! Since my house is also a bookstore, I have LOTS of bookcases, and I think I have a pic that would be perfect!
Posted by: Susan (the Neon Nurse) Crites | January 22, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Thanks. Can't wait to see it! And now that I've cruised around Friar Tuck's blog (great wedding pics, btw), I am really interested in what is on HIS bookshelf as well......
Posted by: suesun | January 23, 2008 at 01:36 PM
LOL - how many of my 5 bookcases do you want?
Posted by: Zen | January 24, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Awesome - I'd love to see 'em all, but I limited the photos to 3, for some reason... thinking that it could all get out of hand, you know!? Check out the website-I have the "rules" posted there for submissions. Hope to see them soon!
Posted by: suesun | January 24, 2008 at 02:59 PM
Thanks for dropping by suesun. My bookshelf is now exposed.
Posted by: Friar_Tuck | January 24, 2008 at 06:00 PM