Virtual Shelf
And this picture of Fiction E-F completes the first full bookcase.
Prominent up top of course is my three-volume set of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, of which I am exceedingly proud. (Look! All three make Holmes’s silhouette!) Umberto Eco is also worth sighing lovingly over. I think it might be time for another read-through of The Name of the Rose, which remains one of my five favorite books.
The bottom shelf contains two mystery series that make me smile, the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde and the Peculiar Crimes Unit series by Christopher Fowler. I suppose I am something of a mystery fanatic, and while I’ve never yet successfully written one, I’ve read, well, more than a few.
Close observers will also notice F. Scott Fitzgerald, of whom I am a fan. I’ve always enjoyed reading and studying British and American modernists; some place the dates of modernism between the world wars, 1914-1941, or others like myself put them a bit earlier, 1900-1929. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald is worthy to note because if I were to ever specialize in literature above creative writing, modernism on both sides of the Atlantic would be my chosen field.
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