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 and I think that broadens a persons interests. 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 historicaI fiction best. My favorite historical novelists are Cecelia Holland and Mary Renault and Margaret Lawrence.
I believe we can a learn a lot from the fiction of a period. 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 expanation 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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