Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
This post originally appeared at Grasping For the Wind in March 2010, and was written in response to one of John Ottinger’s Inside the Blogoshere questions: How do you organize your library? Around a month ago I went through a major overhaul and purge of my collection, something years overdue. Space was definitely becoming more [...]
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As a kind of follow-up to my unsettling experiences as chronicled in ‘No Books For You,’ I’ve bloggated an ode to the act of browsing for books in actual, physical, honest-to-goodness brink-and-mortar bookstores. You remember those — the places we used to get all our books back before the Jetsons became reality and robots started [...]
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The other day I had to go get a new battery for the lawn mower, so naturally I ended up at the local Goodwill buying books. Got some good stuff; non-fiction ranging from bios of Lindbergh and Teddy Roosevelt, to a book on Gurkhas, something about Mallory and Everest, and one about Ernest Shackelton’s Arctic [...]
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I was book hunting recently — actually I was running errands of various sorts, but it’s often the case with me that a trip to the grocery store or Home Depot morphs into a book-buying expedition of some kind — and I hit one of my regular spots, the local library. Now, it’s only recently [...]
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Recently, I have read two interesting essays on books, the first of which is ‘Of Bibliophilia and Biblioclasm’ from Theodore Dalyrmple writing for the New English Review. In it he talks about the sacredness of books — at least for those that love them — and he takes as his starting point the second essay [...]
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