Comments on: The Books in your Living Room http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:46:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: sabernar http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/comment-page-1/#comment-14142 sabernar Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:43:26 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/#comment-14142 This is easier than listing: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/292640" rel="nofollow">http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/292640</a> This is easier than listing:

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]]> By: setya http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/comment-page-1/#comment-14141 setya Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:26:54 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/#comment-14141 Turning around and looking at the shelf directly behind my head I find amongst many.... Soul Mountain -- Gao Xingjian, Blankets -- Craig Thompson, Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn -- Jonathan Lethem, The Depford Trilogy -- Robertson Davies, Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Ames -- I Love You More Than You Know, 3 Russell Banks books and one of my all time favorites...Angle of Repose -- Wallace Stegner. I've read them all and love them all. I have not purchased a lot of books since moving here but the library and I have become great friends! Turning around and looking at the shelf directly behind my head I find amongst many….
Soul Mountain — Gao Xingjian, Blankets — Craig Thompson, Fortress of Solitude – Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn — Jonathan Lethem, The Depford Trilogy — Robertson Davies, Housekeeping — Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Ames — I Love You More Than You Know, 3 Russell Banks books and one of my all time favorites…Angle of Repose — Wallace Stegner.

I’ve read them all and love them all. I have not purchased a lot of books since moving here but the library and I have become great friends!

]]> By: melissa lion http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/comment-page-1/#comment-14140 melissa lion Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:27:39 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/#comment-14140 DBW -- I have no idea why booksellers are called that. I know that there's a patron saint of booksellers and that once you're a bookseller, you're always a bookseller -- I can't step into Powell's without straightening. I also know that booksellers use the term bookseller to (snottily) separate the wheat from the chaff as in, so, are the cashiers booksellers? Shyah right! But I think it's just a term for the occupation like cashier or professor or doctor. Bookselling, like being a butcher, used to be a profitable, serious occupation. It's not profitable anymore, unfortunately. But it still is serious -- I had to take a book test at my first bookstore job. I missed three and my bookseller partner never lets me live that down. Lorenzo -- Michael was working on that book while he was my teacher. I loved K&K, but I loved Werewolves in their Youth way better. DBW — I have no idea why booksellers are called that. I know that there’s a patron saint of booksellers and that once you’re a bookseller, you’re always a bookseller — I can’t step into Powell’s without straightening. I also know that booksellers use the term bookseller to (snottily) separate the wheat from the chaff as in, so, are the cashiers booksellers? Shyah right! But I think it’s just a term for the occupation like cashier or professor or doctor. Bookselling, like being a butcher, used to be a profitable, serious occupation. It’s not profitable anymore, unfortunately. But it still is serious — I had to take a book test at my first bookstore job. I missed three and my bookseller partner never lets me live that down.

Lorenzo — Michael was working on that book while he was my teacher. I loved K&K, but I loved Werewolves in their Youth way better.

]]> By: lorenzo http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/comment-page-1/#comment-14139 lorenzo Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:10:57 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/#comment-14139 Hooray for Kav and Klay! I'm reading it now. Hooray for Kav and Klay! I’m reading it now.

]]> By: divebarwife http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/comment-page-1/#comment-14138 divebarwife Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:09:55 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/02/29/the-books-in-your-living-room/#comment-14138 So I think the books should be either ones you have read - or ones you are actually kind somewhat planning on reading. Having ones out simply for "decoration" or look impressive is as silly as buying jeans because of the label on the butt..but hey - people do that! I will admit though - I am guilty of hiding my "secret pleasure" books behind the "hey look I'm reading this books." Oh - and a question. Why do people who work in bookstores call themselves book sellers? It's not a term you hear from people who sell clothes, or furniture, or records... not being snotty. Just wondering? So I think the books should be either ones you have read – or ones you are actually kind somewhat planning on reading. Having ones out simply for "decoration" or look impressive is as silly as buying jeans because of the label on the butt..but hey – people do that!

I will admit though – I am guilty of hiding my "secret pleasure" books behind the "hey look I’m reading this books."

Oh – and a question. Why do people who work in bookstores call themselves book sellers? It’s not a term you hear from people who sell clothes, or furniture, or records… not being snotty. Just wondering?

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