Tag: books

Crankypantsing

Is There an Editor in the House?

Shelly

Agatha Raisin 1

Agatha Raisin 2

Agatha Raisin 3

Agatha Raisin 4

Agatha Raisin 5

This book was clearly converted from paper to text via OCR. You can tell by the lack of spacing in passages of dialogue, making it seem as if the characters are talking to themselves, and by the peculiar substitution of Em and Ell for I’m and I’ll, and alsoplustoo by the frequent instances where multiple words are run together.

Normally, you’d expect a human editor to clean up that mess.  But you might also expect a human editor to have caught the misuse of “their” in the print version that the digital copy was made from. In both cases, you would be WRONG.

And this was not a 99 cent special from Bob’s Backyard DIY Publishing Shack, either. I paid $6.00 for that load of crap, which was published by St. Martin’s Press.

Found Poems, Poetry

Found Poem

Shelly

Found Poem

In succession,
each
a complete turn.
First the bloom,
raised bodily,
then the snake
alive.
A warning
on its way.

This is from an old book I found in a junk shop. It was falling apart, and I paid maybe $1.00 for it? I bought it with the intention of cannibalizing it for art, and also because of the title. Pick, Shovel and Pluck: Further Experiences “With the Men who do Things.” Yes. Men who do things. How could I resist that?!

Photography

So Far, So Good

Shelly

#readathon

I’m taking a break from the readathon to watch Star Trek, but was the last update to my stack of books. I’ve got a couple more to add to the pile, as soon as my phone is done charging. I’m doing all kiddie lit, which is maybe cheating, but I can’t imagine spending 24 hours reading anything dense. As it was, one of the books made me cry all the way through it (Maggie’s Door, which I strongly recommend).

Photography

I Hoard Books

Shelly

Bookshelves

Remember my giant wall of bookshelves? I am out of space, but I keep accumulating books. It’s a sickness, I know. So last weekend I finally got fed up with the stacks of books lying everywhere and decided to put up more bookshelves.

Dead Corner

The obligatory before shot of the short wall in my living room that is, shockingly, full of NO BOOKS.

Bookshelves

Step 1: Cover the cheap-ass, fakety-fake wood boards. They were beyond ugly, so I wrapped them in hippie love-in fabric.

Bookshelves

It’s super easy to do. Just pretend that each board is a giant present.

Et voila.

Bookshelves

Bookshelves, the Continuing Saga
After

Photography

More Painting

Shelly

Bookshelves

Books

I got up this morning and decided to tackle the giant wall o’ shelves in the living room. I managed to get seven shelves cleaned off and painted today. The paint should be dry enough by tomorrow that I can replace the shelves, then move books from the remaining shelves onto the painted ones, then paint the next set. I think it’s probably going to take me all weekend, though, because of drying time and space limitations.

I’ll be VERY glad when I’m done with all this bookshelf painting. It seems like I’ve been at it for weeks, onna counta I HAVE been at it for weeks. The end is in sight, though!