12 January 2011

Celebrity bookshelves

Flavorwire collects pictures of bookshelves from Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Sinatra...
Posted by Ellen at 10:15 AM

4 comments:

8yearoldsdude said...

you can definitely tell who likes books and who doesn't (too many leather bound sets is a dead giveaway) as well as who lives in california and who doesn't,

11:08 AM
jess said...

Question: Did you see that John Waters exhibit at the Warhol Museum in PGH a long time ago? (I think it was called Change of Life?) There was a life-sized photo of most of his library that you walked through and it was extraordinary. These photos remind me of that. Totally dreamy.

6:32 PM
Ellen said...

8: I would like leatherbound books someday when I grow up, but you're right: too many of them is suspicious.

Jess: I did not see it and now I really wish I had. Where's a bibliophiles' museum when you need it for stuff like that?

10:44 AM
Wade Garrett said...

I agree with 8yearoldsdude - leather-bound sets look like the person is decorating with books; mismatched, well-thumbed volumes are the sign of a serious reader.

Obviously, people can read leather-bound books just like any other book, but they're so awkward to read and carry that nobody reads very many of them.

7:23 PM

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