The Loves of My Life - My Bookcases Part 3

My Bookcases Part 3 - Let's Get Personal Again

**Don't miss my first two posts featuring my bookshelves. The first one can be found here. I participated in a fun exercise where I really examined what books are on my shelves. Check it out and join in on the fun! The second post takes an even more in depth look at my first bookcase and can be found here.

The General Organization of My Bookcases

I labeled them so you could all follow along a little better and use this photo as a reference if needed.

A Quick Reminder of My Bookcase Organization: I order my bookcases basically by my mood, how much I love a book, shelf space, and if they are adult or young adult. I hope you will be able to see the pattern (or at least what I think is a pattern but really probably isn't to anyone but myself) as you read along. At the very least you can sit back and relax while reading my bookish rambling.

A Tour of Bookcase 2

High Importance/Very Special Shelf - Adult Edition

Quick Description: The top shelf in my smaller second bookcase features my very special shelf adult edition. 

Fun Fact: My copy of Shadow of Night is signed by: Deborah Harkness. Although I did not get to meet her myself, my husband got a family member to go to the signing (we didn't live nearby) and get me a copy and ship it to me as a surprise. Isn't he the best?

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: A Discovery of Witches by: Deborah Harkness

Messy ARC Shelf

Quick Description: This is my wonderful ARC shelf. I have read most of these, but there are a few I haven't gotten around to yet.

Fun Fact: Nicole from The Quiet Concert, a fellow book blogger/bestie got me a copy of Afterworlds by: Scott Westerfeld while she was in BEA as a surprise. I forever owe her. I plan on starting it very soon. :D

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: The Testing by: Joelle Charbonneau

Is it funny my engagement picture happens to be on a shelf with a lot of romance?

Quick Description: Here is a grouping of my adult books, mostly featuring Nicolas Sparks.

Fun Fact: You may not be able to see it well, but the second to last book on the right is Out of Sync by: Lance Bass. I was a mega huge Nsync fan (like crazy obsessive) when I was younger and Lance was my favorite.

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: Nineteen Minutes by: Jodi Picoult

Random

Quick Description: This shelf is just a random mix of young adult and adult books with a stack of TBR books sitting in front of them. It contains books I wanted to display but didn't really fit on the other shelves.

Fun Fact: I went to college with the author of How to Date An Alien! Magan Vernon also wrote The Only Exception and many other books. She is a really nice person and good author. :)

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: Fangirl by: Rainbow Rowell

Quick Description: My husband is the proud owner of the Game of Throne series. I sincerely hope to read them some day, and because of this I let him display these ones on his very own shelf...almost. Those three books in the corner are mine.

Fun Fact: I bought my husband The Lands of Ice and Fire which is a large book full of huge fold out maps of the whole Game of Thrones world, perfect for when he needs to once again explain to me which character is from where when watching the television show. 

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: Morrigan's Cross by: Nora Roberts

This concludes my bookcase posts. I hope you enjoyed them! Please feel free to share your bookshelves with me. I would love to see the bookcase behind the blogger. :)

The Loves of My Life - My Bookcases Part 2

My Bookcases Part 2 - Let's Get Personal

Maybe not this personal... but I couldn't pass up this gif. I do love my books. ;)

**Don't miss my first post featuring my bookshelves. It can be found here. I participated in a fun exercise where I really examined what books are on my shelves. Check it out and join in on the fun!

Now I will finally show you what my bookcases look like, after they have been cleaned up just a little bit of course. (Get super freaking excited to fangirl and judge away.) I apologize for the not so great photos, but I don't have a nice camera and the lighting in my living room isn't great. Anyway, I will shut up now, or at at least long enough to finally post the pictures.

The General Organization of My Bookcases

I labeled them so you could all follow along a little better and use this photo as a reference if needed.

I order my bookcases basically by my mood, how much I love a book, shelf space, and if they are adult or young adult. I hope you will be able to see the pattern (or at least what I think is a pattern but really probably isn't to anyone but myself) as you read along. At the very least you can sit back and relax while reading my bookish rambling.

A Tour of Bookcase 1 (My 1st Real Bookcase)

My Very Special Shelf

Quick Description: My first shelf, my very special shelf, is where I put the young adult books I hold most dear to my heart. So why do I still have Twilight on my most very special shelf? I have no idea. I used to like the books (I don't hate them now I'm just not obsessed like I used to be) and they will always have a special place in my heart, but I will be removing them. The Throne of Glass series will respectfully take their place once all the books have been released. I will eventually put my old HP books away as well (the ones behind the very pretty ones) and have just the new ones on this shelf.

Fun Fact: My copy of Allegiant is signed by Veronica Roth. I got to meet her! Read about that embarrassing story here.

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

An Ode to Riordan

Quick Description: I LOVE Rick Riordan, in case you can't tell, and I would have his books on the top shelf, but there wouldn't be enough room for my HP books as well. So that is why they adorn my second shelf. I wasn't even a overly huge fan of The Maze Runner series and the Shiver trilogy but I did enjoy them and they fit nicely on this shelf with the Riordan books, although they won't fit that well once I get Mockingjay back and the last Percy Jackson book comes out. I will have to rearrange. Oh darn.

Fun Fact: The Maze Runner is in paperback because I needed it for a college course (the best one I ever took). I bought the other ones later when they first came out. 

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

The Shelf That Makes Me Feel/Look Smart

Quick Description: This shelf contains mostly books from classes I took in college, the special ones that I didn't want to sell back because I liked them too much. Sadly, thanks to the horrible lighting in my apartment, you cant see what a lot of the books are. I do have The Handmaid's Tale, The Short Stories: Ernest Hemingway, The Thirteenth Tale, and The Castle of Otranto, just to name a few.

Fun Fact: My Sony Reader is on top of my James Boswell book. I store it on my bookcase because I even want my reader to be on display. My husband said I should buy a digital rotating picture frame and put the covers of the books I have on my reader on there so I can really display my e-books. I just laughed at him...or did I? 

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Half and Half

Quick Description: Half of the books on this shelf are mine and half are my husband's books. The James Patterson books on this shelf are my husband's books. I was so kind to give him half of this shelf along with most of the one below it. I'm so generous. The books after Taken that are hard to read are books in the Tomorrow When The War Began series by John Marsden. I only own some of them for whatever reason, but I've read them all and they are divine.

Fun Fact: These are just the latest Janet Evanovich books, I actually own all the books in the Stephanie Plum series, a huge mix of paperbacks and hardcovers.

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: Any of the Tomorrow Series books.

Mostly My Husband's Shelf

Quick Description: The economics books and the Stephen King books are the property of my husband. The writing/editing books are mine and the library books are mine. 

Fun Fact: Most of my husband's books were purchased by me and given to him as gifts. 

My Favorite Book on This Shelf: Texts From Dog by October Jones (This is my husband's book but I read it and it is hilarious. Its the little short book towards the left-hand side.)

** Come back next Friday (July 25th) to get more behind the scenes pictures of my bookish life. I will be featuring a close look at bookcase 2. Until then, happy reading!

Introducing the Loves of My Life - My Bookcases Part One

**Just for the record, my husband knows I love him very very much and he said he was not offended by the following bookish post. Now since that is out of the way...

I have recently decided to take a closer look at the loves of my life (my bookcases) and share what I find with all of you. I know that it may seem like a waste of time to some people, but as fellow book nerds I'm sure you all will enjoy these bookish posts. Get excited folks, because I will have three whole posts dedicated to my bookcases. Obviously I have one today, then one next Friday the 18th, and one Friday the 25th. Each post will feature my bookcases in some way and the embarrassing, fun, and interesting things I noticed about them. 

Now let the games begin! I'm kicking off this series by participating in this fun activity that I found over at Book Riot that was posted by Peter Damien. It all started with the comic by Tom Gauld that is pictured below. 

I followed Book Riot's guide and truthfully answered the following questions based on the categories that are taken from the photo. I'm only counting my books that are on my bookcases. Detailed pictures of my actual bookshelves will be featured in the next two posts in this series. *evil laugh* Now you must come back again next Friday! Okay, let's finally get to it. Sit back and enjoy my bookshelf confessions. 

Read? I read a lot of library books, and I mean a lot. Therefore, it was really hard for me to figure out which book I read last that was from my actual bookcase. Luckily, I read one right before this post went live so this question really turned out to be an easy one. Now to the point, the last book I read from my own shelves would have been The Princess in the Opal Mask by Jenny Ludquest. I enjoyed it.

Intending to Read? I am embarrassed to admit (but know deep down that I'm not alone which helps) that I have so many books on my shelves that I am intending to read, but I just haven't yet. So I'm going to pick just two for this exercise. 1. The one that has been on my bookcase the longest = The 19th Wife by: Erika Robuck. I received this book for Christmas three years ago. 2. The One I hope to read super soon = Uninvited by: Sophie Jordan.

Half-Read? I started reading The Troop by: Nick Cutter but I had to DNF it. I really wasn't getting into the overly gross novel. Other than that I pretty much don't have any other books that I have only half-read on my shelves.

Pretend I’ve Read? I don't do this now, but I have before when I was younger and more worried about what people thought about my reading habits. The big one from back then that I lied about would have to be Jane Eyre, but then I had to read it for class in college so it all worked out.

Saving For When I Have More Time? I would love to make it all the way through my Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Maybe I should start reading a little every week. Hmmm... I could make that into a challenge.

Will Never Read? Honestly, I hope I will read all the books, but in all reality I probably won't ever read the book Patient Zero by Johnathon Maberry. I bought it for both my husband and me back when Borders was closing (it was hard not to buy all the cheap books), but neither of us have read it yet. The other book I may never get around to reading is The Journals of James Boswell. I had to purchase that book for a class in college but we didn't get around to reading it. I still hope I do at some point.

Purely For Show? This one was hard since I don't really have any books purely for show... until it hit me, The new HP collection is basically only for show. I haven't even taken the wrapper off of the set yet, which I received for Christmas, because I don't want to get it gross. I have my older hardcover and paperback copies of the HP series that show how much I love them, this one can just be for show, at least for now.

Read But Can’t Remember A Single Thing About It? Most of the Nicolas Sparks books. I own at least four of them and I really can't tell them apart no matter how hard I try. I don't even remember the names of the characters, where they take place, etc. I do however have a general idea of the plot structure for those ones. ;)

Wish I Hadn’t Read? I don't think I have a book on my actual bookcase that I wish I hadn't read. I pick and choose which books to display on my bookshelves since I don't own enough to hold all of my books, and I wouldn't display a book I didn't like. Therefore, instead I'm going to mention two books that are in one of my book totes that I would never display on my precious shelves. First, the Fallen series by Lauren Kate, I think you all know why. Second, Geek Love by: Katherine Dunn, it was beyond disturbing. It was too much for me.

**This post was so much fun to write! You all should do this exercise as well. I would love to read your posts about your bookshelf confessions. 

Come back on July 18th for an even more up close and personal post about my bookcases. Pictures will be included for you to fangirl over and/or judge.