Bookshelf Wednesday

It's 22:55 and I'm in bed. Glancing at blip I realised I hadn't taken a photo today. Then, scanning through Facebook, I noticed that a friend had declared it to be 'Bookshelf Wednesday' and wanted to see photos of people's bookshelves! Ooh, this really appeals to me, I love to browse nosily through other people's books so I immediately took this shot and posted it to her.

This is the bookshelf in our bedroom... That's 'shelf' in the singular, but as you can see it's triple-stacked and rising higher by the month. Neither of us can resist a bargain and about 95% of these books are second hand, picked up on a whim from a book stall or charity shop. All are waiting to be read by either one of us or both of us. When a book has been read by us both (if we're both interested in reading it, our tastes overlap very little!) it's either taken back to a charity shop or, if we particularly loved it, it migrates to a shelf in another room to be kept. Or maybe given away at a later date!

I find this stack of books very satisfying, and I love to spend time choosing my next book when I'm nearing the end of my current one.

As an aside, I'm currently switching between 2: 'Dear Dodie', a biography of the author Dodie Smith by Valerie Grove, and the latest comic offering by David Sedaris, 'Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls'. Very different, but somehow quite complementary!