Continuing the saga of books in the house, this is where the others are. My study has mostly writing and poetry related books, umpteen journals and exercise books with my writing and quiet time times in them and several children’s books from writers I admire like Eleanor Spence and Madeleine L’Engle. Another shelf has bible translations and commentaries, dictionaries and reference books. I also have writing magazines from various writing related organisations I belong too as well as copies of my own books.
Then there’s the second bedroom. It has children’s books from when the children were young as well as more fiction and how to books and a whole shelf filled with bible study guides and notes from past years.
Just by perusing our bookshelves you could tell a lot about what is important to us and what kind of people we are, what we read and our interests.
Apart from writerly magazines what you won’t find are other magazines, except for Time magazine which Mick reads. Women’s magazines and home magazines and so forth never come into our house. When I look at those magazines, as I stand in line at the supermarket, all I see is a heap of gossip and trivia about celebrities- something I have no interest in.
Even when I go to the doctors or hairdressers I invariably take a book to read with me instead of picking up the magazines they have. I used to read them when they had fiction but most of the magazines seem to have cut back on that these days, which is a shame, I think. But I’m happy to concede that maybe I am in the minority and others like to read about celebrities and gossip rather than stories.
One thing we never have is books in the bedroom as I never read in bed and neither does Mick. We’d both rather sit in a comfy chair to read. The only book on the bedside cupboard is a notebook in case I get story or poem or blog ideas in the middle of the night.
I’d love to hear about your reading habits and where you store your books and what type of books you mostly have or is it a hodge podge like mine.
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