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the_ref · 08-23-2005, 07:38 PM

I own, quite literally, about 3000 books.

This is NOT counting my roleplaying games...

What do I own?

Well, recently I have read Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Dark Valley: a Panorama of the 1930s, several of Elizabeth Peters' "Amelia Peabody" mysteries, a couple of Phil Rickman's "Merrily Watkins" books, and also heavily referenced about half a dozen books on life in the Regency Period of England and angelology.

I own four Bibles (one Vulgate), the Elder and Prose Eddas, the complete Patrick O'Brian Aurbrey-Mataurin series, most of the works of HP Lovecraft, about three dozen books on the history of the 11th-13th centuries in England and France, about 500 books on King Arthur (everything from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Bernard Cornwell), several PG Wodehouse collections, and rather a lot of miscellaneous reference works.

And I have a lot of thingies and doodads on the shelves to make sure the books are never lonely -- Asterix & Obelix toys, a couple of glass pens, pictures of friends and family, Chariface Chippendale & The Tick, parts of geodes, bookmarks, change in a jar, old beer bottles, letter openers, and bits of fascinating wood that I have found along the road.

I am considered pretty eclectic in my tastes by my friends; on the average I read 2 books a week, more so if they are something simple like a Sandman collection.

08-23-2005, 07:38 PM	#35 (permalink)
the_ref Upright	I own, quite literally, about 3000 books. This is NOT counting my roleplaying games... What do I own? Well, recently I have read Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Dark Valley: a Panorama of the 1930s, several of Elizabeth Peters' "Amelia Peabody" mysteries, a couple of Phil Rickman's "Merrily Watkins" books, and also heavily referenced about half a dozen books on life in the Regency Period of England and angelology. I own four Bibles (one Vulgate), the Elder and Prose Eddas, the complete Patrick O'Brian Aurbrey-Mataurin series, most of the works of HP Lovecraft, about three dozen books on the history of the 11th-13th centuries in England and France, about 500 books on King Arthur (everything from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Bernard Cornwell), several PG Wodehouse collections, and rather a lot of miscellaneous reference works. And I have a lot of thingies and doodads on the shelves to make sure the books are never lonely -- Asterix & Obelix toys, a couple of glass pens, pictures of friends and family, Chariface Chippendale & The Tick, parts of geodes, bookmarks, change in a jar, old beer bottles, letter openers, and bits of fascinating wood that I have found along the road. I am considered pretty eclectic in my tastes by my friends; on the average I read 2 books a week, more so if they are something simple like a Sandman collection. __________________ "Jack! You've debauched my sloth!"