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RE: How about a book published by the Dream Steem Community? / Wie wär's mit einem Buch, veröffentlicht von der Dream Steem Community?
That indeed is a sad trend and with it comes the fact people hardly read or understand what is written. At least we still have books. My eldest has over 1000 (officially a library), I still have hundreds (a part moved to my children) and during the summer the bookhunt starts. We literally find them on the streets, in give away closets and second hand shops, frewuently brandnew. Always good for about 100 more.
I like the old vinyl, records, we still have them in the family. 😉
Very nice of you. Even 500 books is a very convincing and sufficient library totals.
We keep a lot too in the family, but the problem is the free room / space - we dont have enough of it for a long time, since we live not at a separate house, but that’s a different story. I rarely allow myself to buy another book. (Because it’s simply impossible to put more water into a bottle than it can hold, hehe).
Space is indeed a high problem. I thought I dealt with it and wouldn't buy or take more books but... I can empty the kichen cupboards 🤔 also thought of shelves in every room underneath the ceiling but I'm afraid those walls come down. Book crates we partly use.
My latest buy - I couldn't resist it becausebof the prize the secondhandshop set, looks brandnew. Just the letter this author wrote aren't in it.
Columns, stories & poetry
Not in the know of this author at all. Book design looks convincing and modernistic. (And it is BIG!)
This is a new edition/collection about 600+ pages. He was a dutch authir, columnist, poet not only famous about what he wrote but also because of his fight with the Catholic church because he could not understand why he was rejected of being gay. Since he did follow the first two rules.
I have some of his books but in the 80s they already looked very modern. This edition has cheaper - not bleached paper - but I am happy with it. It's about the words. Today it is.
Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (14 December 1923 – 8 April 2006) was a Dutch writer. He started writing as Simon Gerard van het Reve and adopted the shorter Gerard Reve [ˈɣeːrɑrt ˈreːvə] in 1973.[1] Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he is considered one of the "Great Three" (De Grote Drie) of Dutch post-war literature. His 1981 novel De vierde man (The Fourth Man) was the basis for Paul Verhoeven's 1983 film.Reve was one of the first homosexual authors to come out in the Netherlands.[2] He often wrote explicitly about erotic attraction, sexual relations and intercourse between men, which many readers considered shocking. However, he did this in an ironic, humorous and recognizable way, which contributed to making homosexuality acceptable for many of his readers. Another main theme, often in combination with eroticism, was religion. Reve himself declared that the primary message in all of his work was salvation from the material world we live in.
Gerard Reve was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and was the brother of the Slavicist and essayist Karel van het Reve, who became a staunch anti-communist in his own way; the personal rapport between the brothers was not good. They broke off relations altogether in the 1980s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Reve