A few weeks ago,
DCup posted photographs of her book collection and invited others to do the same. Well, it has taken me a while to get it together, but here goes. I started in the kitchen with the cookbooks. I love my cookbooks. Sometimes I just take them out and read them. (Lots of stirring passages, haha.) I probably use the
Moosewood Restaurant Cooks At Home more than anything else. I also have been getting many recipes out of the innertubes, so I have a big binder of recipes. I used to have
The Boxcar Children Cookbook but I gave it to
PoodleDoc as an engagement gift. (Note to PoodleDoc: We are expecting an invitation for wienies and s'mores. Said Benny.)
On to the basement. We shouldn't really store books in the basement, but we do. Our living room is too flargin' full of musical flotsam and jetsom to have room for another bookshelf unit. This shelf contains many children's books that our progeny don't want in their bedrooms anymore, but that I cannot bear to part with. I collected children's books long before I ever had children!
Another basement shelf. You may not be able to tell, but there are actually 2 layers of books on these shelves, not counting the ones stuffed in on top of other books. The way that we keep our books is rather embarrassing, given that I am a wannabe librarian -- but there you have it. The shoemaker's children go barefoot.
A portion of my craft books.
In the living room, this is a bookshelf that the lovely and talented Mr. Ether built. (There is a second one in pieces in the basement. If the giant black amps and speakers -- Mr. Ether's tools of the Rock God ™ trade -- ever get moved somewhere else, maybe we'll have room for another unit in the living room!)
And a close-up.
Upstairs now. Molly is in her favorite spot, and it is yet another ridiculously disheveled bookshelf!
A peek into the Luminiferous boudoir, and what do we have? More books!
Knitting magazines and miscellaneous stuff ...
The nightstand/bookshelf ...
And the pile on the floor (overseen by Feather.)
I left out a couple of smaller cases because I didn't want to become even more tedious than I already am. The fact is, I love books. However, I am a very discerning book buyer; I've reached the point where I will not buy a book unless I know that I absolutely love it and plan to read it multiple times. Yet we still have books in every nook and cranny of the house!
On to the basement. We shouldn't really store books in the basement, but we do. Our living room is too flargin' full of musical flotsam and jetsom to have room for another bookshelf unit. This shelf contains many children's books that our progeny don't want in their bedrooms anymore, but that I cannot bear to part with. I collected children's books long before I ever had children! 
Another basement shelf. You may not be able to tell, but there are actually 2 layers of books on these shelves, not counting the ones stuffed in on top of other books. The way that we keep our books is rather embarrassing, given that I am a wannabe librarian -- but there you have it. The shoemaker's children go barefoot.
A portion of my craft books.
In the living room, this is a bookshelf that the lovely and talented Mr. Ether built. (There is a second one in pieces in the basement. If the giant black amps and speakers -- Mr. Ether's tools of the Rock God ™ trade -- ever get moved somewhere else, maybe we'll have room for another unit in the living room!)
And a close-up.
Upstairs now. Molly is in her favorite spot, and it is yet another ridiculously disheveled bookshelf!
A peek into the Luminiferous boudoir, and what do we have? More books!
Knitting magazines and miscellaneous stuff ...
The nightstand/bookshelf ...
And the pile on the floor (overseen by Feather.)
I left out a couple of smaller cases because I didn't want to become even more tedious than I already am. The fact is, I love books. However, I am a very discerning book buyer; I've reached the point where I will not buy a book unless I know that I absolutely love it and plan to read it multiple times. Yet we still have books in every nook and cranny of the house!
7 comments:
Dang, that's a lot of books!
Can you tell you're a librarian or what?! Holy moly, that's a ton of books. Obviously your passion my friend.
I use my extra books, the ones I don't read often, as insulation. Does that count in a meme?
I LOVE IT!
I was hoping you would do this meme because it's so perfect for you. I love a house with lots of books. I was looking at the titles and I saw Great Swedish Fairytales. And the Fun with Nature books.
I think it's great that you have a career where you can nurture that love of the written word.
Thank you for doing this and for the link.
Have you seen Great Swedish Fairytales? It has the most gorgeous illustrations! Fun With Nature -- I bought those at Bay of Fundy National Park in Canada. They do a great job of holding up my knitting magazines! Yesterday I bought a discarded copy of The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli. I loved it as a kid. This was a fun meme! Thanks for suggesting it.
I've not seen Great Swedish Fairytales, but I was intrigued by the title. I'll have to look for it at our library. I'm glad you had fun with this!
Wow. I moved a year ago into smaller quarters and have much less space for bookcases. I had to go through all my books to pick the ones to make it to the little house. I posted pictures of them several months ago. So far I have keep from accumulating more than a dozen or so in the past year. But I left a bookcase in the big house that is much like the giganto modular unit in one of your photos. We own many of the same books.
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