My office and library are the same room, at the front of my house looking out on the hillside street where as many people pass walking their dogs as cars drive by.
To the immediate right is a bookcase that fills with current-year books, which I’ve recently about half-emptied, moving books into the general stacks. A few books I haven’t yet read — you can see Anathem — are still there; the 2008 novels I have read line the top two shelves.
Turning further right are the stacks of SF titles through Z, with knick-knacks on the curved endpieces, and boxes of extraneous books (review copies, etc.) waiting to be carried out. The room opens through French doors from the hallway.
Turning left from the glasstop desk is a library cart full of the latest incoming — books and magazines, received or purchased, waiting to be listed on the site; ARCs on the next shelf; copies of Locus below that. The three closest bookcases, including the short one beneath window, are full of SF-related nonfiction and reference books. Behind those and at far left are the stacks of SF titles near the front of the alphabet.
And turning farther left is a leather sofa-bed where I read and nap, complete with requisite cat (Munchkin); French door at extreme left edge of photo; bookscases of art books, general fiction and nonfiction, and the SF stacks beginning with A in the right-facing bookcase behind the sofa.
Most of my SF library is in this room, though I do have another room downstairs, about the size of a large walk-in closet, full of anthologies and back-issue magazines. And in a couple guest bedrooms are additional bookcases, full of books about film and TV, YA and graphic novels, old encyclopedia, puzzles and old textbooks, and other miscellany.
Mark: Thanks very much for posting these photos. I love the hardwood floors, couch, chair and Muchkin and of course the bookcases/books – the whole setup- is very Architectural Digest. Had fun trying to make out various books on your shelfs. I think I see Bradley’s Mist of Avalon in photo 4 rear bookcase bottom shelf and also deCamp’s Time and Chance. You have a very lovely workspace – again thanks for sharing your “sanctum sanctorum”.
Yours,
Geordie
Wow! Have you read them all? j/k This is your sister-in-law who knows how much you love that question. ;-D Love ya.
You don’t have enough books in there. Really. And it’s definitely not a kid/pet-safe setup; there might be a square foot of wall space in my office area, living room, and storage room that doesn’t have either a bookshelf or a power outlet, but it’s not for lack of trying.