Life is hard. Here is someone.
My name is Meaghan O'Connell and I am 25 and I live in Brooklyn and work for Tumblr and here goes nothing.
June
23
11:47 pm
View comments
85 notes
Important Things About Me You Really Need to Know: I always shelve my books according to rank and/or affinity. The top shelf is dumb shit like yearbooks and big books I haven’t read yet that make me angry and I want to avoid. The third shelf is anthologies and poetry and philosophy and stuff. More commonly known as, Books That Get Me Laid. The fourth shelf is the Philistine shelf I’d rather no one noticed. Wally Lamb hangs out there and cries about being fat. The fifth: journals and love letters I have probably already scanned into my blog. The sixth: more journals. More love letters. Both scanned and un-scanned. Course Packets I Can’t Live Without (a very popular genre). But THE SECOND SHELF. The eye level shelf! Books That Have In One Way or Another Changed My Life is what I call it in my head (I swear). Notice they are mostly women and they are mostly BADASS. Also if you can name all of those books despite the subpar blurry ass photo I will marry you. Man or woman I DON’T CARE.

Important Things About Me You Really Need to Know:

I always shelve my books according to rank and/or affinity.

The top shelf is dumb shit like yearbooks and big books I haven’t read yet that make me angry and I want to avoid.

The third shelf is anthologies and poetry and philosophy and stuff. More commonly known as, Books That Get Me Laid.

The fourth shelf is the Philistine shelf I’d rather no one noticed. Wally Lamb hangs out there and cries about being fat.

The fifth: journals and love letters I have probably already scanned into my blog.

The sixth: more journals. More love letters. Both scanned and un-scanned. Course Packets I Can’t Live Without (a very popular genre).

But THE SECOND SHELF. The eye level shelf! Books That Have In One Way or Another Changed My Life is what I call it in my head (I swear). Notice they are mostly women and they are mostly BADASS.

Also if you can name all of those books despite the subpar blurry ass photo I will marry you. Man or woman I DON’T CARE.

  1. girlslikethis reblogged this from bookshelfporn
  2. herecomesthesunxx answered: Hey, Im new to this blogging site, I was wondering if you could help me get people to follow mine? I also like how you format your blogs.
  3. lyricsnstanzas answered: cnt name them but would love to read them[its summer and im runnin out of things 2 do w/myeverSoAmazinglyFunlife]snd me some titles if possbl
  4. crying-wolf answered: My favorite post of the day!!!!!
  5. shmayleyftw answered: “the god of small things” is up there :D I’m glad.
  6. ethicka answered: Sylvia Plath was the original tumblrette. After reading her words I realized what little hope there was for me to say something new.
  7. brydski answered: ive just finished reading Mrs Dalloway (virginia woolf). so good :)
  8. missmagic answered: i spy birds of america, the journals of sylvia plath, the god of small things, colleted stories of amy hempel, the year of magical thinking.
  9. mustanghalle answered: the people who thought that birds of america and self-help were about either birds or self-help need to delete their tumblrs right now.
  10. ashlyncommathe reblogged this from booktumbling
  11. paperbacklady answered: Sylvia Plath, The God of Small Things, Life is Elsewhere, Septuagenerian Stew, Hemingway, and now I’m running out of room! Awesome books.
  12. im863 answered: Tell us what they are?
  13. whomshallifear answered: Well I see Hemingway, Plath’s journals and God of Small Things. That’s about all I can name. :(
  14. booktumbling reblogged this from bookshelfporn
  15. bildungsroman answered: I see Kundera and Bukowski in there, that’s enough for me to accept your marriage propsal!
  16. needtherapy answered: birds of america changed your life? intriguing.
  17. haleyrhey answered: what are a few of those life changing, womenly baddass books?
  18. designage answered: I’m not sure, but I do recall noticing the Wally Lamb book and gently mocking.
  19. bookshelfporn reblogged this from meaghano
  20. onesmallfire answered: OMG!! I thought I was the only one! Quelle bizarre! :)
  21. nicklas answered: Please tell me the Self-Help is fiction…
  22. amycarr answered: Birds of America? I’d love to hear that story, but I’m sure it’s nowhere near as exciting as my imagination makes it.
  23. nostrich answered: Well I see Kerouac, which I assume is On The Road, so I’m sure Catcher in he Rye and Howl are there somewhere too. Ooh, literature burn!
  24. so-so-rad answered: I can name all those books: Books That Have In One Way or Another Changed MeaghanO’s Life
  25. dlbrows answered: I’m the same way, I shelve my books based on their impact on my life and by my love for them.
  26. hissingfauna answered: Sigh. I can only make out Dante’s Inferno. And I call myself bookish :(
  27. lamb answered: someone can finish this:
  28. ihopeyourehappyinternet answered: Did you leave this here so people can attempt to name all the books?
  29. kidpretentious answered: well, birds of america and the collected hempel are the most important. it’s like two giants crushing nearby citizens
  30. desertstained answered: I won’t pretend to be as well read as you. But I think I see a Bukowski up there. I love him.
  31. yellowbricksfail answered: In the happy place in my imagination where things don’t have to make sense, Kerouac and Plath are a stable and happily married couple. :)
  32. mills answered: It’s not very blurry: I think you’re trying to make it easy. I see Hempel, Kundera, Hemingway, Knowles, etc., but I’m old w/ bad eyes.
  33. meaghano posted this
Powered by Tumblr  §   RSS Feed  §   Designed by Jacob Bijani  §   My About Page!  §   Email Me
My Jamz  •   Stuff I Like  •   Vimeo  •   Twitter  •   Goodreads