That depends on whether we're talking about supernatural or mythological dragons! Supernatural dragons (e.g., like Smaug) live on my supernatural / fantasy shelf. Mythological dragons (like Fafnir or Dewi / Y Ddraig Goch) live on my mythology shelf.
Well, you're descendants of Y Ddraig Goch, aren't you?
Unless, of course, you'd prefer to cuddle with my gang of teddybears, Scottish lambs and highland calves living on top of the glass-fronted case where I keep part of my mug collection ... That would be totally up to you!
Well, currently it's more of a feeling of being encroached by books (yet again), as they started materializing again in loads of unsorted stacks all over the apartment ... :D
They're ostensibly Christie's "non-series" novels, but if take a closer look, what the publishers really mean is "non-Poirot and Non-Marple" books. They include, sorted by publication date, the "true" standalones (And Then There Were None, Crooked House, Endless Night, etc.) as well as the Tommy & Tuppence, Bundle Brent & other Superintendent Battle, as well as the Colonel Race books. So, as the same pöublisher, at around the same time, also published special edition boxed sets of the T&T and (Brent / ) Battle books, I've effectively got those twice. Not that I'm complaining, of course ... :)
Do you have to dust regularly? I have glass fronts on my shelves. Best winging and whining session I ever had with my dad to get him to put glass fronts on my book cases.
Umm. *whispers* I have a cleaning lady ... (but, yes, wherever she doesn't dust, it's down to me).
Also, some of my books get moved around frequently enough not to be able to collect visible layers of dust in the first place ... chiefly whenever those unassorted stacks accumulating over the course of a year get shifted from one place to the next.
I don't know how I missed this post when it blew by on my feed, but your shelves are ah-mazing! I am green with envy at your beautiful book collection!
@Moonlight: Thank you! :) Many of these books have come back to Germany with me from my time in the U.S. -- e.g., most of my Library of America and other North American literature collection ...
@Arbie: There might be some in the LoA books you'd be interested in, yes. Not sure how much, though -- e.g., there's very little speculative fiction in there.
Well, leaving aside the SF&F that does appear (more Le Guin next year!), I want the LoA editions of Jack London, Steinbeck, Hammett, Chandler, American Noir, Arthur Miller and Tenessee Williams . I'm also wondering about Melville but I want to read at least what I already have before deciding. I don't know how much overlap with you that makes for...
Unless, of course, you'd prefer to cuddle with my gang of teddybears, Scottish lambs and highland calves living on top of the glass-fronted case where I keep part of my mug collection ... That would be totally up to you!
Also, some of my books get moved around frequently enough not to be able to collect visible layers of dust in the first place ... chiefly whenever those unassorted stacks accumulating over the course of a year get shifted from one place to the next.
@Arbie: There might be some in the LoA books you'd be interested in, yes. Not sure how much, though -- e.g., there's very little speculative fiction in there.