It's all serendipity from here on.....

I'm no longer going to try to keep the 23 things in order or even list the individual 23 things in the subtitles. Prizes are nice, but I'm having fun just 'creating and building' as I find the link in the time that I have. I just created two widgets...one is 'random titles from my library' and the other creates an opportunity for others to check my bookshelves for a specific title without having to log into 'LibraryThing'. However, your checking is for curiosity only, as I no longer lend books.

..oops!

I see I misspelled 'graffiti'; though I edited in Picture Trails, I can't seem to connect it to my blog slideshow.

Slide show is on...

I used Picture Trails. I will delete BigHugeLabs. BHL felt too intrusive for me in all the 'signing away'. Picture Trails was fairly direct and easy to build. I liked having a variety of displays. Perhaps BHL had them and I just was not seeing them. Anyway, the slide show is at the bottom of my page. I wanted it on the side, but it was too big for the margin.

Art and books are made to share space. To that add people who appreciate the two and elicit great conversation and I have the perfect setting!

I'll soon do another slideshow with people and places. I must say, I am enjoying this.

About the slide show....

I used BigHugeLabs and the result is nothing as I had expected. I'll leave it in and try something else tomorrow. I want a slide show that is right on my page, not a link and this huge black background...it is not a pleasing layout. I'll find another way...and take some new photos (I dearly need a sunny day....for photos and my disposition!)

Aha! Flickr Spell

Ethnic Studies

What would I ever do without LibraryThing.com!!? I've not gone so far as to spine label my books. I'm always curious how people categorize their home libraries.

Ethnic Studies
Originally uploaded by finnflix

I knew a bookkeeper who had one book collection and her husband had another. Neither was a librarian, but one used Dewey and the other used the Library of Congress.

Another person arranged her books in the order of purchase and wouldn't read one until the last book purchased was read. Someone else arranged hers by color. I'm content with subject (Folktales/Folklore/Fairytales, Fiction/Literature, Sociology, Political Science, etc.) and when warranted, author: books by and about (Fitzgerald and Zelda, Reynolds Price, Alcott, Wharton, etc.)

Books and prints give me pleasure

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Originally uploaded by finnflix

This wall is mostly general religion, Judaica, Quaker, Russian and French authors and Minnesota. The prints are art notecards I found at the Museum of Russian Art - if you haven't visited it yet (in Mpls) you are missing some powerful art and history.