Share your bookish decor! Can be stickers, decals, artwork, other decorations, etc. Whatever you have that's related to books/reading that brings you joy. If you don't have a picture, simply write out a description!

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Right now, my only specific bookish decor are a couple of decals on my car (as well as a license plate frame with ghosts and books). Here are the decals: - one is a ghost with a book that says "haunted by my tbr" and the other is just text that says "Booktrovert: books over people."

I've been thinking about this lately bc I'm in the habit of writing my first and last name inside the cover of the books I own. I started as a kid because a lot of my books were retired from my mom's classroom, and they had our last name written in them/on the spines so they didn't disappear at school somewhere. Naturally, I just assumed this is standard practice for book ownership, and started doing the same inside the covers. I also buy a lot of used books and I always love to find dedications, names, and annotations in a book and write mine alongside them. I think about the people who will hopefully one day pick up my copies and add their names to the list.

On the other hand, I feel a little weird about writing my name in books sometimes because it feels very, well, possessive, and I love the idea of letting books come and go from my personal library in a more free-flowing exchange between friends. Getting to pass on a book I loved to someone I love is so gratifying and fun, and receiving a well loved copy from a friend feels like a precious gift. As much as this system appeals to me, I just sometimes struggle to part with a beloved book once I've read and reread and annotated it to the point that it feels more like a memento than a mass market paperback.

Basically what I'm saying is I have way too many thoughts about this and I can't make up my mind...what do y'all think?

“Are you a witch?”

“No, I’m a Lutheran, but I make do.”

(This is transcribed from listening to the audio, so it may not be exact)

What’s your niche interest? And what book would you recommend for people to learn more about it?

I’m sure most people have one, so I’m curious!

(For the sake of clarity, I mean a specific sub-genre of a more general subject. Instead of ‘geography’ (too general), maybe something like coastal erosion or tectonic plates.)

For example, my current niche interest is radium and the use of it as a ‘cure all’ in the early twentieth century. I’ve read Radium Girls by Kate Moore and its grimly fascinating: how much money was tied up in making people believe in the wonders of radium, how many people suffered and died as a consequence of that misinformation, and how radium made its way into the most everyday of items like toothpaste and energy drinks! If you have any recommendations for more books on radium, I’d love to see them.