I read. I collect books. Books and reading have always been an important part of my life. I am a very young old lady. With my husband in the military for many years we traveled a lot. I have three grown children and they have each earned a degree with an English major. I have most of my education by osmosis.
If I listed all the books...
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I read. I collect books. Books and reading have always been an important part of my life. I am a very young old lady. With my husband in the military for many years we traveled a lot. I have three grown children and they have each earned a degree with an English major. I have most of my education by osmosis.
If I listed all the books I've read it would take days. Maybe I'll just keep adding as I remember another one for the list.
I like historical fiction best. My favorite historical novelists are Cecelia Holland and Mary Renault and Margaret Lawrence. I've read Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Nevil Shute, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, Kurt Vonnegut, John Grisham, Barbara Pym, Joanne Harris, well you get my point.
Most of what I have read is on my shelves. My husband just keeps building more for me. It is hard for me to part with books that I have read. I always want to share them too.
Since I joined Shelfari and started putting books to my shelf I feel some sort of explanation is in order. If a book is on my shelf I have read it. I may have read it years ago or I may have read it this past week.
My collection is mostly hardback editions but some of them are very old and therefore not easy to find so I have used paperbacks for illustrations.
February 25, 2008 I'm still adding books that are in my book room.
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