Books

You know, I'm sitting in my office idly staring at my bookshelf.

Here's a sampling of the collection...now, mind...this is bookcase one of three. Actually, there isn't a room in this house that doesn't have a book collection. Some small, some large. My china cabinet is currently housing about fifty!! (China having been relegated to a corner cabinet that I never use).

Hm.

The Diaries of Anais Nin.
Portrait of a Killer (the Patricia Cornwell Jack the Ripper)
Lots of Pat Conroy
The Birth of Venus and In the Company of Courtesans (Sarah Durant)
Lots of Andre Norton books
Dune, Dune Messiah...there's one missing.
the EARLY Anne Rice vampire novels...oh, and Belinda as well.
All the Laurell K Hamilton novels.
All the Dresden Files books.
The Mists of Avalon (MZB)
Kosovo, War and Revenge
Last Knight (the Knights templar)
Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Turn of the Screw, H James
Sons and Lovers, Lawrence
Zelda, Nancy Mitfor.
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
A Place to Call Home, Deborah Smith
Ragtime, EL Doctorow
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Temple of My Familiar and Color Purple, Alice Walker (need to get the book her daughter has just written).
The Magic of Herbs
Waiting, Ha Jin
Frankenstein, Shelley
100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, Melissa P
Indecent Obsession and the Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
The Tao of Pooh
The Little Prince
Charlotte's Web
Life, the Universe and Everything (I appear to be missing So Long and Thanks for All the Fish)
Richard the Third (my fav)
All the George R R Martin books.
The Barnabas Collins Books (remember those old spooky vampire tales that ran on PBS in the 70's?)
Lots of Robin Hobb
The Affair of the Poisons, Anne Somerset
In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick
Hotel Sarejevo
A book of Edward Gorey Illustrations
Son of a Witch....

The list goes on and on.

Those are the ones I can see (and to be honest that I can see from my chair).

That doesn't include the other two bookcases (the "classical" case and the china cabinet catchall), nor the shelf I have in the foyer of utter literary shit. Crime books. True Crime. Fictional Crime. Bodice ripper housewife porn. More vampire porn. Magazines. Books borrowed from other people...you know. Your normal shit.

Anyway, bored. For some nutty reason thought you might like to know what I have on my shelves (prolly not).

Night~