TGIF: Sorted books
Everyone has a favorite way to shelve books: by genre, theme, height, chromatic spectrum, whatever. Here's another: sorting titles so they tell a story. At left is an example from artist Nina Katchadourian, as noted by The Guardian. You can find more on Flickr.
The Guardian's book blog offers others such as: Somewhere A Cat Is Waiting/To Kill A Mockingbird/In A Dark House/Bad Kitty.
Here's one from my shelves: As I Lay Dying/All the King's Men/Run/Parting the Waters/God Knows/Wait Til Next Year
What's on your shelves?
Comments
Just looking at our IndieBound Bestseller shelf, we have
The Shack/The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao/Loving Frank/Run/Out Stealing Horses/Bridge of Sighs/ Water for Elephants/In the Woods/The Almost Moon/Away/The Elegance of the Hedgehog/The Road/ The Abstinence Teacher
I don't know about you but I'm imagining one of those relationship magic movies involving horses, elephants and hedgehogs, lots of running over bridges, woods and roads. Maybe the guy who directed "Big Fish" would be interested?
Posted by: Lauretta Nagel | September 19, 2008 3:48 PM
Ha! I can't get much of a string going, but how about Clerical Errors / Middlesex / Lying Awake?
If only Disgrace and/or Atonement weren't by authors from the wrong country (my top layer sorting method), they might have happened into the string!
Posted by: KristinB | September 20, 2008 7:13 PM