43 thoughts on “Paradise enow”

  1. Hi – After recently reading and hugely enjoying WEIT, I subscribed to get the regular newsletter providing links to a great mix of articles and commentary.
    When I read a post on the website, I notice at the bottom of each, further links to related articles that are ‘categorised’ e.g. Book reviews, Accommodationism, Muslims behaving badly.
    But I can’t find the full list of these category headings. I want to browse all the articles in each i.e. to see the full list of Accommodationism posts etc.
    Help!
    Chris (Sussex, UK)

    1. Those links are tags that Jerry has tagged his post with. WordPress doesn’t really do the category thing unfortunately. I don’t think there is a way to reveal all the tags used either.

    1. The legend “cleveland-logan-otis” above the image-only page may suggest locations, but from the presence of coffee (*) cups on the table, I suspect this is in a private home, not an institution.
      The arm chairs, pot plant and cat argue that way, but the cup was the clincher for me.
      (*) Other beverages are available.

        1. True.
          I have to grab myself by the throat and drag myself past such shops. They’re dangerous.
          Cat, coffee and bookshop (Oh, I note the labels on the shelf edges) … hmmm.
          No, can’t be the case. There should be several dessicated corpses scattered around in the armchairs.

  6. Ha! That looks like my house. 14 bookcases downstairs, 7 upstairs, and 2 cats ruling the kingdom.

  8. I wish my house had built in bookshelves. I want to finish the basement and make a library. I have a friend who reads a lot and her husband says that they are going to need a bigger house to accommodate her habit. 🙂

    1. That’s why I bought a Kindle (though now I read on my iPad mostly). Cheaper than more bookshelves.

      1. I have lots of electronic books as well – also audiobooks. Now that Amazon owns Audible, you can get a discount on the Kindle file & sync between the two.

        Sometimes I like the nice new bound edition and sometimes I just can’t resist a book sale. There are some books where I have an audio, electronic, and hard copy.

  10. I’m going to say bookshop. I’ve seen all of the features of this picture – books, cats, comfy chairs, coffee cups – in one bookshop or another, although admittedly not all of them in a single shop. (Outside of the furniture and coffee, but including the cat, this is very reminiscent of an antiquarian bookshop I used to frequent in Portland, Maine.) And it looks to me like there are a commercial-style trash can in the corner, a book propped up in the window, facing out, and labels on the shelving, which seem inconsistent with a private home.

    2. “…a commercial-style trash can in the corner…”

      Ha ha, I’d been seeing that as a kitty condo.

          7. Whyever are they called jars anyway? Better shut up or Matt will be asking us to spot them again…

          8. An interesting question, though, which Wikipedia and my dictionary (NOAD) doesn’t answer. “Night” because there crepuscular; “jar” … maybe because they have (according to NOAD) a chirring call: “night-chir” → “nightjar”?

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    1. Yes, very considerate of them to provide a ladder so the cat can knock books off the top shelf.

  18. Sorry this is so late. I know it isn’t, but the room *looks* a lot like one of the rooms at the Iliad bookstore in North Hollywood.

    And this, from James K. Morrow’s Only Begotten Daughter:

    “Pop, do we have heaven?” he’d asked on the day he discovered the (dead) cat.

    “You want to know a Jew’s idea of heaven?” his father had replied, looking up from his Maimonides. “It’s an endless succession of long winter nights on which we get paid a fair wage to sit in a warm room and read all the books ever written…Not just the famous ones, no, every book, the stuff nobody gets around to reading, forgotten plays, novels by people you never heard of. However, I profoundly doubt such a place exists.”

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