Unique Sorting

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Browsing through my blog, I found a link to this post about the “Sorted Book Project.” Go read it. I’ll wait.

The idea is to take a few books and physically sort them in such a way that the titles make some kind of sense … something that I’ve never quite gotten around to doing and photographing, but which fascinates me.

What title/combinations can you come up with? (Bonus points if you actually assemble the books and photograph them, like in the original post.)


Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves!

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42 responses

  1. gautami tripathy

    Are we having two different BTT posts this thursday?

    😀

  2. J.G.

    Whoa! Bonus Thursday! I love it.

  3. Marie Burton

    http://burtonreview.blogspot.com/2009/06/booking-through-thursday-unique-sorting.html

  4. CeeCee

    Great fun! Here’s my photo: http://booksplurge.blogspot.com/2009/06/unique-sorting.html

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  6. elizabethwillse

    Loving the bonus Thursday, and can’t wait to see others’ clever arrangements.

    Puns and potential poems on my shelves.

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  8. Carol

    Hi Everyone….. My post is up….. Happy BTT!….

  9. iwriteinbooks

    This is so cool! I may get around to doing the summer post as well but here is my book spine story for now:

    Booking Through Thursday: Unique Sorting

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  11. Barbara H.

    I think some participants are misreading the question: it’s not asking how we have books sorted on the shelves. It’s asking up to put certain book titles together. If you click through the link there will be some examples that show what they mean.

    I thought this was a lot of fun! I could play with it all day if I had time. But here’s what I came up with:

    http://barbarah.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/booking-through-thursday-unique-sorting/

  12. Popin

    This was fun. Like Barbara, I could send all day with this thinking up new ideas. Here is mine.

    http://proudbookworm.blogspot.com/2009/06/unique-sorting.html

    ~ pOpin

  13. teacherninja

    I don’t have time to do this today, so maybe someone can steal this idea and set up a photo. For an endcap in a big bookstore a friend and I found all the fiction titles that had a body part in the title and displayed them in rough anatomical order. Some titles I can remember: Audrey Hepburn’s Neck, Footsucker, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Wolf by the Ears, Girl with Curious Hair, Cheek by Jowl, Skinny Legs and All, and many more.

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  15. ruinedbyreading

    Tough, but fun. Here’s mine: http://ruinedbyreading.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/btt-unique-sorting/

  16. mervih

    Here’s mine:

    Unique Sorting

  17. terri

    Oh this was so much fun! Here’s mine:
    http://teelgee7.blogspot.com/2009/06/booking-through-thursday-unique-sorting.html

    I too could spend hours, maybe days doing this. I’m sure I’ll come up with more through the next weeks.

  18. pinaymama

    mine is up!

    http://thefishgate.blogspot.com/2009/06/unique-sorting.html

  19. Carrie K.

    Cool idea! I didn’t have time to stack and photograph, but I did come up with a few:

    http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com/2009/06/25/booking-through-thursday-june-25-2009-book-sortingboo/

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  21. claire

    I had a blast! My post is here:
    http://kissacloud.blogspot.com/2009/06/inspired-by-sorted-books-project.html

  22. Emily

    I made three. This was such a fun little exercise!

    http://www.eveningallafternoon.com/2009/06/stacks.html

  23. Frances

    Now this is fun!!! Someone should host this as a regular weekly exercise. Here is mine:

    http://nonsuchbook.typepad.com/nonsuch_book/2009/06/booking-through-thursday-unique-sorting.html

  24. Alea

    I posted one back in the fall here it is! http://aleapopculture.blogspot.com/2008/10/sorted-books-project.html

  25. fern chasida

    This was too fun not to try! You can find my entry here: http://chasida.blogspot.com/2009/06/booking-thru-thursday-unique-sorting.html

  26. Michelle

    This was fun! I even found a way to do this with my books at work. Enjoy! http://mastermusingsbymichelle.blogspot.com/2009/06/booking-through-thursday-unique-sorting.html

  27. Novroz

    wow…I didn’t know there’s a second post. I have to take the pictures first…be right back with my post

  28. LizzyJ

    Oh yeah finally, it took me a bit here is my photo and 3 sentences kinda,
    http://historicallyobsessed.blogspot.com/2009/06/booking-through-thursday-sorted-book.html

  29. Caty

    Here’s nime: http://miscellaneousmumblings.blogspot.com/2009/06/booking-through-thursday-summer-and.html

  30. Caty

    Uh, *mine*. Oops.

  31. CoversGirl

    This was so much fun! Mine is here.

  32. lahni

    This looks like so much fun. I don’t think I have enough books to try it though…

  33. Shannon

    Wow, this is great.

    Here’s mine: http://shananaginsbooks.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/booking-through-thursday-sorted-books/

  34. Kris

    After going through my books, this is what I came up with. On my new domain too 🙂 http://inthesound.us/bookheart/?p=302

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  36. gnoegnoe

    Cool, I joining in!
    Here’s my blog.

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  38. erinstraza

    Here’s my entry: The Secret Stories Your Book Titles Tell

    This was a wonderful creative exercise! So fun.

  39. erinstraza

    oops, I guess I didn’t do the link correctly . . . here you go!

    The Secret Stories Your Book Titles Tell

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  41. Simon T

    What a great idea!
    http://stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.com/2009/07/sorted-books-project.html

  42. PXStevey

    Hi, I’m new I would like to welcome all… 🙂