18/365:Natural History

18/365:Natural History, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

January 18th

Marta has been working hard all day, and so in the evening we went to get some beer and popcorn and spent a couple of hours in the kitchen, looking at all the nasty creepy crawly crustaceans in my natural history picture books.


And my North Pole Campaign? It's going very well, thank you! But I need more votes...

343/365: Bookshelves at last

343/365: Bookshelves at last, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

December 9th

Now I need more books to fill the empty spaces. I say 'at last' because what was supposed to be a two, three week construction job is now two months in. Well, at least I will finally get this apartment in shape. I've been living here since autumn 2006 and never had a place to put my books- til now.

150/365: Little book fair

150/365: Little book fair, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

May 30th

A small outdoor book fair on the Mariensztat square in Warsaw.

50/365:Word Canyon

50/365:Word Canyon, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

February 19th

In a room in the back of a little store selling religious items hides a fantastic bookstore...I brought home a Lexicon of Explorers, Paul Herrmann's "Zeigt Mir Adams Testament" or The Great Age of Discovery and Georges Blond's "Grands Navigateurs". I have too many books already, and no money at all, but honestly, who could resist?

46/365: Someday I will have real shelves

46/365: Someday I will have real shelves, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

February 15th

Another day at home. My knee doesn't hurt so badly that I can't walk but I want to give it as much rest as possible by staying home. I don't want the spring bike season to find me with an injury!

Anyway, this is yet another last-minute photograph of my place. I recently rearranged my sparse furniture and got rid of some junk and now I have, shock-horror, free space on my bookshelves (there is a third bookshelf on the other side of the room, behind the camera). I love books. These are almost all of the ones I bought myself, some which were lent or given to me, plus quite a lot of my childhood books.There are several hundred more of those back at my parents' house and it will be a long time before I move them all. I don't have a car- I've been moving over to this apartment via train for the last four years. (see how the room has changed over the years in the photos on the left)

Anyway, to paraphrase Terry Pratchett, a person who has enough shelf-space for all their books is not worth talking to. Ergo, I need more books.

Unfortunately, I'm unemployed right now, so I am trying to read what I have before buying any more. Right now I am very slowly making my way through J.M. Roberts' 'Short History of the World'.