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I love them.

Who's your favourite writer(s)?

Novels and Poetry:
Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, WM Thackeray, AS Byatt, Judy Blume, Stevie Davies, EB White.

Academic:
Stevie Davies, Christine Alexander, Juliet Barker, Tim Dolin, Janet Gezari

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Not easy to narrow it, but off the top of my head: Dostoevsky, Checkoff, Camus, Karel Capek, Ernesto Sabato, Voltaire, William Blake, Leon Shestov, Aldous Huxley.

And I do love Emily Brontë, she's very much still a mysterious and misunderstood writer, and thinker I would add.

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(Assuming literature and fiction)
Anthony Trollope, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, Mervyn Peake, Philip K Dick, Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, George RR Martin, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams & Iain M Banks.
(Ordered by year of birth)

How do you organise your books?

Rushdie, Pratchett and Eco are definitely in the category of owning and having read (more than once) every one of their books. And while kids his age went nuts for Harry Potter, my son was obsessing about the Sherlock Holmes books.

I organise by genre and category, how else?

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I have seven big categories organised internally by time, eg: history is organised by the earliest date mentioned once the book in question gets the preamble set, with no regard for culture or geography... so everything is in its own global time context.
I have always had issues with Dewey.

Do you like to contemplate your books and remember reading each in turn?

Yes, we have a lot of them and sometimes I like sitting in a comfy chair with my eyes half-closed and lingering here and there and thinking about the books themselves, when I first read them, in which language, who gave them to me, where did I buy them, with whom I had an interesting discussion about which one, what interesting train of thought a certain passage triggered... Yes, I'm a weirdo

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No, not that analytical. I can be reminded of them/ reading them/ how I got them etc, or decide to reread them and remember something about a previous time I read it, but although I occasionally look over my books, I mostly just read them.

My book organization is unorganized to everyone but me. Some by size, some by author, some by category, some by neither, but I know where in my numerous book shelves to find them all.

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^ well I’ve got to map my mind externally somewhere

I’m definitely a spine contemplator: it has to be the exact copy though, replacements don’t work.

Do you redecorate furniture to your taste?

My little sister who is v v v v v v v v v intelligent and educated and curious about everything.. Her pride of her life is her bookshelves organized a particular way...

She orders new books regularly n rereads old ones n makes notes etc.. She has various notebooks just to make notes as or after she reads
.after a lobg days work then cooking etc ..

BUT she is no ASD or Aspergers person in fact just thé opposite. She just loves learning nonstop... She makes friends v easily n can navigate any social situation easily.. No issues in anything.. But yeah. Im not like that. Im disorganized with my books n havent properly read a book in years now.. I dont like tp learn and think anymore the way books make u do...as my life is more about do do do ....
I think im quite Amish actually
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My textbooks are together by theme, then alphabetical by editor.

Fiction is alphabetical by surname, but beginning with any relevant biographies about the author (also alphabetical), then the novels / books of poetry for that writer are chronological by publication date.

My Brontë books are together in one antique cabinet beginning with biographies of the entire family, then by birth order (biographies of the Reverend Patrick alphabetically, writing and poetry of the Reverend Patrick in chronological order, then likewise with Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne in that birth order). I have multiple editions of each novel so my WH material also has a shrine in my bedroom. (blushes).

Haworth social histories are together as above, alphabetical by editor.

Furniture: No. Some is bespoke but I don't change it.

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Did you ever get to go to Haworth, Isabella?