The data behind My Ideal Bookshelf. (Via BoingBoing.)
(Amy has commissioned one of these paintings for me as a present, and now I have to decide what books to select! I am leaning towards a subset of the style books, as I'd love to have a sort of visual representation of that project - Emma, Madame Bovary, The Golden Bowl, Proust vol. 1, The Line of Beauty, Barthes and Koestenbaum and St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels, the Anthony Burgess 99 Novels - but it seems a little narrow, I may go more eclectically in the direction of lifetime reading of significance to me (Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows, Pride and Prejudice, a book each by Diana Wynne Jones and Dick Francis, David Copperfield, Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Richard Holmes's The Pursuit, Clarissa!).
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Seeing that data could make me very self-conscious about choosing my books. The first for me would be Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, which is my most-loved book ever. Then what comes to mind are Anne Frank, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights. Hmm, not sure how much further I would want to go...
ReplyDeleteThe Presentation of Self would seem to be the perfect inclusion.
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