Lookshelves

 1) Who are you and where are you?
My name is Jessica and I'm a Women's Studies major at Brooklyn College. I live in Brooklyn, NY.
 
2) What do you do for work?
I intern part-time for a non-profit organization, Alternatives to Marriage.
 
3) What do you do for fun?
I read a lot. I usually read at least three books at a time. I also enjoy cooking, watching movies/TV, walking, play records, brewing and drinking tea and spending time with my best friend's cat.
 
4) Tell me something about your bookshelves.
I have two bookshelves. One is big with four shelves. The photo features a portion of only two of them. My other bookshelf contains twenty or so books I've already read and love. I also have a milk crate below the big bookshelf that stores the rest of the books I've already read. I don't organize by topic, genre or color. I do group the same author's books together though.
 
 5) Tell me something about ONE of the books on your shelf.
It's not in the photo I sent but I'm proud to say I have a 1937 copy of Thoreau's "Walden." It's in great condition. It's a small, orange, hardcover book and I never intend to give it away.



1) Who are you and where are you?

I'm Bill and I live in down Detroit. No, it's not scary -- you just have to keep your head about you. I'm a native Clevelander and remain monogamous in my devotion to that city's sports teams, but Detroit is epically cool. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Oh, and John King used books -- which have nearly 1 million books -- is just down the street.
 
2) What do you do for work?

I'm a reporter, writer and blogger for a popular weekly business newspaper in Detroit. I also freelance for a magazine and Web site devoted to the Cleveland Browns. Woof. I was the third-string quarterback of an arena football team a couple years ago, and I'm writing a book about it called "Last String." I hope that shows up on your shelves one day.

3) What do you do for fun?

Read. Obviously.
 
4) Tell me something about your bookshelves.

This is maybe 15% of the entire shelf, which actually is an entertainment center I bought in 1996. Since I graduated to a large flatscreen TV, the entertainment center is now purely a bookshelf. The top shelf, part of which is shown here, is all military. Other shelves are devoted to the Beats, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, George Orwell, classic literature and just random books. This is one of five bookshelves in the house.
 
5) Tell me something about ONE of the books on your shelf.

The thin blue book you probably can't make the title out ... that's the Maneuver Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind. Hard to find. I enjoy reading about how modern combat is conducted, the X's and O's of moving men and stuff on a battlefield. It's quite complex and fascinating. Oh, and the bobblehead if Charles Bukowski, a 35th birthday gift from my beloved girlfriend.

1) Who are you and where are you?

My name is Will Randolph and I am in the middle of moving across country and I had to stop at my parents place to drop off a lot of stuff (these books included.)
 
2) What do you do for work?

In general, I work with kids.  I just spent a year working with at-risk youth, I'm headed to work with special needs kids this summer and then normal kids this winter.
 
3) What do you do for fun?

I love to be outdoors.  I ride my bikes, run, swim, play pickup frisbee and soccer and do just about anything that keeps me outside.  Additionally, I always have three or four books that I've started that I need to finish.
 
4) Tell me something about your bookshelves.

At my last job, I ended up accumulating almost all of these books.  Every week, I'd buy books for the kids, then i'd buy a book for myself.  It makes for a fun mix of books.  When I got where I am now to drop them off, I had to buy a whole new bookshelf, because the ones I already had were just too full.
 
5) Tell me something about ONE of the books on your shelf.

The Long Walk is an amazing book about a polish cavalry officer that is captured by Russia in ww2 and escapes Siberia by walking to India... I can't think of a more amazing story.  It's been one of my favorite books since early high school.

1) Who are you and where are you?
I’m Jan-A, I live in Seoul, Korea
 
 2) What do you do for work?
17 years ago, I became a student.
8 years ago, I was a student.
6 years ago, I was a student.
blah blah blah..
last year, I was a student. and now I'm a student.
 
I'm kind of fed up with being a student. Seriously I want something else but being a student.
 
3) What do you do for fun?
For fun? …. Hmmmmmmm….
I dance! I mean I dance in the room listening to MP3.
I read books, watch movie and dramas (like True blood, the big bang theory..etc) ,listen to music, take photograph, and swim.
 
4) Tell me something about your bookshelves.
I have two houses (Actually both of them are not mine, let’s say I live in two houses.) One of them is my parent’s, and the other is my friend’s. This bookshelf used to be full of my friend’s book. One day, I fought with him for this space and it was very terrible. Anyway, now the lower part of the bookshelf is mine! ;)
 
5) Tell me something about ONE of the books on your shelf.
Honestly, I stole a Bukowski’s poem from the college library. 7 days before on my graduation day, one of my friends who worked as a school librarian told me how easy it is to steal books from the library. So I decided to steal one, just one. I thought the college that my parents poured so much money in didn’t do anything for me. It just ate up all that money. (kind of my justification). And It basically didn’t give me anything.

So I just took one book thinking the book was the first, last gift that the college gives to me.
 
But more than all, I would say love for Bukowski made me be a criminal! 

Love Chinaski

1) Who are you and where are you?
I'm Adam Verner and I live in the neighborhood of Edgewater, Chicago, IL.
 
2) What do you do for work?
I'm an audio-book narrator, voice talent, and actor.
 
3) What do you do for fun?
Read too many books, play ultimate frisbee, and juggle.
 
4) Tell me something about your bookshelves.
The first iteration of these used cinder blocks and boards, but then I was almost killed by the whole thing falling on me, so I switched to wooden boxes.  They come apart easily, are extensible, and travel very well!  They're organized roughly by subject, in this section is acting/theatre on the top and moving into fiction on the bottom.
 
5) Tell me something about ONE of the books on your shelf.
Near the bottom-right, there's a book called "The Big Book of Illustration Ideas."  I got it years ago when I was looking for inspiration for a design, and I've used it countless times since.