One of the things I've done this summer is to take you all on a tour of my bookshelves. If any of you missed out, you can find links to all the posts on Come Browse My TBR Shelves and It's Time to Browse My Keeper Cases. As I said at the end of the last tour, I still had shelves here in the office but any browsing would just have to wait until I'd finished sorting and sifting through everything in the closet.
The closet is sorted and sifted (or is that sifted and sorted?), and I've condensed the contents of my bookshelves and removed one tall bookcase unit. It's been a long time since I've seen that section of wall, and I have to admit that I'm enjoying the empty space.
Now it's time to let you take a look at the last of my shelves here in the office where I sit and do all the work on my blog. There are two two-shelf bookcases under the window that looks out over the pool and backyard, and I have some books on the shelf above my monitors.
I've left the file sizes of the photos intentionally large so you can manipulate them to see titles because that's what we book lovers love to do-- do that head-on-the-side thing to read the spines. Here we go!
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| This is the shelf for all my knitting and needlepoint books. Many of the pattern books are so skinny that you're not going to be able to read the spines. Sorry 'bout that! |
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| Then there's the shelf for wildlife and plant identification as well as dictionaries. The tall, thin, spiral bound book is a guide to making your own envelopes. The glass Planters Peanut jar holds plastic grocery bags. They breed well in captivity. |
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| This shelf is for art and history books that I can't part with. If you think you see two white nooses on top of the books on the right side of the shelf, you've been reading too many mysteries! |
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| More treasured books about horses, England, ballet, and art. Oh-- and my camera bag. |
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| This is the shelf above my monitors. Books I want to read soon, more plant and wildlife identification reference works, a giveaway book, and some odds and ends. |
And that's it! Now you've seen all my bookshelves. Perhaps I should do this series of posts every five years or so just to see how much things change (or don't change). What do you think?
I have really enjoyed taking a peek at your shelves, Cathy. It's been a lot of fun, and I think you really get to know people when you check out their bookshelves. I admire the way you've sorted out your books by topic, too. I have to admit I don't do that, myself.
ReplyDeleteMy mother, the librarian of our village library, set it up that way: books into genres and then alphabetical by the author's name. My brain just thinks that way when it comes to my shelves.
DeleteCathy, it's been fun to see your shelves. Thanks for taking the time to show them to us. I think I've mentioned that I am incredibly nosy about what people have on their bookshelves. Ha!
ReplyDeleteAnd I've never been nosy about the books on other people's shelves at all... (good thing my name isn't Pinocchio)
DeleteThanks, Cathy, for the tour. I enjoyed browsing your books, and I'm particularly impressed by the number of reference books you keep on hand. That's one category I've really neglected.
ReplyDeleteThat dictionary of Scottish dialects must really be something...
Yes, it is something. I may have gotten rid of my OED, but I don't think I'll ever get rid of that particular dictionary or the Apache and Navajo ones.
DeleteYou are so well-organized, as your mother was before you.
ReplyDeleteI am very impressed with the way you have sorted and shelved your books, and at the scope of your interests. Amazing that you can read so many genres and keep track of them all.
Wanted to let you know that Bloody Scotland videos are now posted, so those of us who didn't tune in to watch it virtually can now catch up. I know what I'll be doing in October. They will be posted until Oct. 30.
Thanks for the heads up, Kathy!
DeleteI liked looking at your bookshelves. I like the categories too.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
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