Reorganizing my shelves, unhauling fiction, some recent hauls & a tbr

I reorganize [some of] my shelves, unhaul some lit fic and share a tentative autumn tbr based on recent hauls + rediscovered books

Books:
🍂 Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (2019)
🍂 Pure Flame by Michelle Orange (2021)
🍂 Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis by Rachel Eisendrath (2018)
🍂 The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 by Edith Schloss (2021)
🍂 The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire by Walter Benjamin (ed. Michael W. Jennings) (2006)
🍂 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)
🍂 The Bloomsbury Look by Wendy Hitchmough (2020)
🍂 La Pensée et le mouvant (The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics) by Henri Bergson (1934)
🍂 Nom by Constance Debré (2022)
🍂 Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1969/2017)
🍂 Conversations with Friends by Dally Rooney (2017)
🍂 The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy (1958)
🍂 Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
🍂 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (1954)
🍂 Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
🍂 Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)

Music:
“Quant En Moy” by Guillaume de Machaut, vox/synths by me
I don’t usually use any background music, but this vid’s long shelving montage has me doing so for the first time -- who says people are incapable to changing their minds?

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StoryGraph: @sdelphis

[victoriah.]

Annie Dillard is one of my favorites 😍 ! I am slowly reading "Pilgrim..." to savor each line. Also started "American Childhood" that I acquired as Lib'ry DISCARD!! So good!
Your shelves are/Lib'ry is beautiful 😍!

[RachaelsReadingNook]

I'm sorry to hear you aren't doing well, I hope you have the space to take care of yourself ❤You have such gorgeous bookshelves! Love the inclusion of non-English books, translations are great but it's amazing when you can read in the original language!

[JeannyMeyer]

Poetry in a World of Things sounds right up my street, I put it on my wishlist.

[pedrorocha]

So, what happenned was: I passed a bit forward, yes, I admit it, and fall in this sonic... thing. My antena said «what is this??». I remembered to check out the info below and there it was. Yes, the sonic....thing was your responsability. Absolutelly love the sonic juxtaposition and... would love to hear more of it. Then I went to find out who this Guillaume is. Wow, 800 years old... And this piece on youtube, with the notes, is this syncopation?.... Medieval swing? So, thank you very much for the knowladge and this little voyage. Like Duke Ellington, music is my mistress, and a most generous one she is. I know nothing about her and yet she always openned up to me when I called. And the best times where spent with her.

[leaisjreads]

Sorry to hear things have been tough for the last bit - hoping this hard season passes soon 💗Loved hearing about your culling/curation process!

[r.enee.morris]

I need to do the same thing with my shelves. Whenever I unhaul I feel so good as a person. I also try to immediately donate books I’ve read and am not interested in keeping in a collection. I feel the more of my books I read I’m slowly curating a collection I can look at fondly.

[fmarginalia]

I learnt a new word today - aleatoric! I thought I had a big vocabulary but that’s a new one. Good word, thank you 😊 I also disliked the Overstory and I did not finish it.

[emileconstance]

I've never bought a book solely based on its cover, but I might have to make an exception w/ The Bloomsbury Look--so gorgeous! And I do have a long-held interest in the Bloomsbury Group, which isn't surprising given Woolf is probably one of my top 2 all-time favorite writers (not to mention all of the other fascinating personalities in the group).

The Loft Generation also looks like one I'll put on my list, along w/ Poetry in The World of Things...among others you mentioned (books on art, art history, art criticism, etc. are always of interest to me).

I think I need to do w/ my closets what you did w/ your bookcases--I have shirts/sweaters/etc. that I haven't worn in 10 years, so not likely I'm going to start wearing them anytime soon.

[kai-rhone]

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on Patti 😊

[alsopato]

alphabetizing a collection that big seems so daunting, what kind of home library category would u say yrs falls into?
i’ve never read any sally rooney but i’m pretty curious to hear yr thoughts if you end up getting to conversations with friends, also the outfit at the end! love the earrings

[amyofhearthridge]

If I Had Your Face was thought provoking and sad, I did like it, but I passed on my copy, also. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was a slow read for me, but I still think about it and I love it more the farther I get from my read of it. I may need to reread.

[wicebittten]

who published that edition of the dud avocado? i love it.
also, with my experience with joyce carol oats i don't like her too much. her writing is far from exception and she is a HORRIBLE person haha. anyways i hope you are taking care of yourself, i'm sorry you aren't feeling too well.

[ameliareads]

I liked the beginning of The Overstory and then it annoyed me so much, that I dnf'd it 80 pages before the end. I then unfortunately had to read Bewilderment for the booktube prize and it is the worst, it made me incredibly angry.

[yenasung]

Omg u hate the overstory!!! 🥲 ok cant wait to discuss that w you!! I’m currently in this curated bookshelf collection bs myself and also struggle to toss when i can just keep and what if i need it later and and and 🥲