I adore this shot submitted to Flickr by ooh_food and chosen for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week, and I adore it for a couple of reasons. The first reason is the most obvious - wall to wall, floor to ceiling - a sprawling and glorious bookish … [Read more...]
Introducing ‘Reading Journal’
June 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
So welcome to the introductory post for 'Reading Journal', another new feature I’m bringing to RobAroundBooks, and I've got to tell you from the outset that this is one I’m really thrilled about, not least because it’s a feature that's going to … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] : The ‘Proust Questionnaire’
March 8, 2009 By 9 Comments
With Thursday's 'Proustian epiphany' still fresh in my mind, and my 'patient' wait for the books to arrive continuing, you can imagine there's still a lot of Proust fever going on in my head at the moment. My regular reading of course continues, but … [Read more...]
Bookshelf of the Week: Hong Kong Urinal
March 4, 2009 By 5 Comments
On Bookshelf of the Week I like to mix things up a bit - combining the practical with the aesthetic, the straightforward with the ingenious and the sensible with the plain silly. This week it probably doesn’t get much sillier (yet still darn cool), … [Read more...]
Bookshelf of the Week: The ‘Uroko house’
February 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For this week’s Bookshelf of the Week we’re heading out to the ‘land of the rising sun’, to Japan where innovation, creativity and ‘out of the box’ thinking is the daily norm, and this week’s featured bookshelf couldn’t be much more … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] : A little something for the Sebaldian worshipper
February 15, 2009 By 5 Comments
Rather than using it as an opportunity to spread the intimate details of my dreary bibliophilic life, I’m using the vehicle of the Sunday Salon this week to once again point you to something which I hope is of greater value. I’ve noticed a … [Read more...]
Bookshelf of the Week: Juhansonin’s color-coded bookcase
February 11, 2009 By 5 Comments
You may remember I featured Eccentric Scholar's 'Rainbow Bookshelves' as one of last month's Bookshelves of the Week? Eccentric's rainbow bookshelves certainly went down well, and although I'm still not a fan of organising my library shelves by … [Read more...]
[Sunday Salon] : John Updike’s six ‘golden’ rules for book reviewing
February 1, 2009 By 11 Comments
The recent and devastating news of John Updike’s passing has been prevalently reported over the past few days, and for good reason - the man, by all accounts, was a literary legend. And, while I shamefully admit to having never read any of Mr. … [Read more...]