Margaret says:Here are my Persephone books (along with my favourite girls’ stories by Lorna Hill which I had as a child and have since collected again!) … the Persephone books are on all corners of this revolving bookcase in the bed sitting room upstairs!
Thank you, Margaret. I hope to have such an impressive collection of Persephone titles some day and I'm sure there will be a number of ballet lovers who will be envying your Lorna Hill collection. I hope the comments problem is resolved soon.
Delightful! I've always wanted one of these revolving bookcases - such a civilised item of furnitiure - but feared that it would be too tempting for small children to 'over-twizzle'.
ReplyDeleteYour time will come, Juliet. Just make sure you get one before eldest child sets up home and gets one!
ReplyDeleteOh dear, yet another reminder of failure on the domestic front (mine that is). I do have bookshelves but they are full and groaning and now I have piles of books more or less everywhere (Greenmet and ReadIt etc notwithstanding). On the other hand, I quite like the unexpected pleasure to be derived from falling over a pile of books and finding something I've been looking for (usually for several months). I have learned to live with the bruises.
ReplyDeleteYes, D, I've just been bewailing the fact that I now have almost as many books piled on the landing as I do on the many bookshelves around the house. Now if I were to get rid of all my husband's books ....
ReplyDeleteOoh all those lovely Lorna Hill Wells books. I loved them all as a teenager and so wanted to be a ballet dancer, went to classes and all but at 5'9" and size 8 feet it was clear I was not destined to be the next Fonteyn
ReplyDeleteMy Persephone books (all 54 of them) are in with my main run of books though I did have them separate at one stage
Following on the bookcase meme, this article on bookcase etiquette is news to me (via Instapundit).
ReplyDeleteWhat would the maker of the rules of bookshelf etiquette make of me, I wonder? A sort-of-ordered collection of books on every subject from architecture to zoology, hundreds of volumes of poetry, plays and classic literature and even more of modern fiction and children's books. I guess he would make an educated guess that I'm a rather untidy catholic reader!
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