Looking at other people's bookshelves is fascinating!
Do share a favourite book, or a book you would like to read one day.
Looking at other people's bookshelves is fascinating!
Do share a favourite book, or a book you would like to read one day.
Oh all sorts!
Plenty of non-fiction (mostly human biology leftover from university/wildlife/epidemiology; one of my most visually appealing books is a great big hardback about the black death embellished in gold and red, with skeletons and rats and ships on the cover).
I also have a decent variety of cook books (though most of my cooking/baking is done from memory, so used only occasionally).
Then I have pet care books for almost very species I've ever kept and a few other animal-y non-fiction books (I really enjoyed A Street Cat Named Bob).
Fiction-wise, some standouts on the wall-O-books are, by genre;
Sci-Fi/Sci-Fi comedy; The Martian, all the Red Dwarf novels, Colony (another from RD writer Rob Grant).
Fantasy; SO MUCH TOLKIEN. The Hobbit, The Lord of The Rings, The Silmarillion, Beren and Luthien, etc. etc. I also have the History of Middle Earth set about the inspiration and story behind the books, put together by his son. (It's a hefty 3-book set of doorstoppers printed on tracing-paper-thickness pages; terrifies me to read it because I'm always worried I'll damage the thing!)
His Dark Materials; the trilogy, La Belle Sauvage and a great big lexicon.
I'm also another Harry Potter fan; the books I had since my childhood are so dog-eared that The Goblet of Fire is missing its entire cover. It looks like a just-barely-bound-together manuscript! Lost count of the number of times I've re-read them.
A Song of Ice and Fire; all of it, plus the world of ice and fire backstory-book (you've probably figured that I'm very into lore/information-gathering when I get into a series)
Good Omens, by Pratchett and Gaiman, is one of my all-time favourites.
Animal fiction; Still got a few of the classics that have transferred from my childhood bookshelves. White Fang was always my favourite of the genre and so is a proud member of my "falling apart" collection.
Mythology; The Mabinogion, my version's in both English and Welsh because I was trying to teach myself a bit of the latter when I got it. It's a neat mythos. :)
Crime; Not generally a fan, but I have ALL the Holmes.
I'd feel weird if I wasn't surrounded by books. We had so many growing up (literally several corridors lined with bulging bookshelves and more in the bedrooms) that other children used to joke that I lived in a library.
Oh all sorts!
Plenty of non-fiction (mostly human biology leftover from university/wildlife/epidemiology; one of my most visually appealing books is a great big hardback about the black death embellished in gold and red, with skeletons and rats and ships on the cover).
I also have a decent variety of cook books (though most of my cooking/baking is done from memory, so used only occasionally).
Then I have pet care books for almost very species I've ever kept and a few other animal-y non-fiction books (I really enjoyed A Street Cat Named Bob).
Fiction-wise, some standouts on the wall-O-books are, by genre;
Sci-Fi/Sci-Fi comedy; The Martian, all the Red Dwarf novels, Colony (another from RD writer Rob Grant).
Fantasy; SO MUCH TOLKIEN. The Hobbit, The Lord of The Rings, The Silmarillion, Beren and Luthien, etc. etc. I also have the History of Middle Earth set about the inspiration and story behind the books, put together by his son. (It's a hefty 3-book set of doorstoppers printed on tracing-paper-thickness pages; terrifies me to read it because I'm always worried I'll damage the thing!)
His Dark Materials; the trilogy, La Belle Sauvage and a great big lexicon.
I'm also another Harry Potter fan; the books I had since my childhood are so dog-eared that The Goblet of Fire is missing its entire cover. It looks like a just-barely-bound-together manuscript! Lost count of the number of times I've re-read them.
A Song of Ice and Fire; all of it, plus the world of ice and fire backstory-book (you've probably figured that I'm very into lore/information-gathering when I get into a series)
Good Omens, by Pratchett and Gaiman, is one of my all-time favourites.
Animal fiction; Still got a few of the classics that have transferred from my childhood bookshelves. White Fang was always my favourite of the genre and so is a proud member of my "falling apart" collection.
Mythology; The Mabinogion, my version's in both English and Welsh because I was trying to teach myself a bit of the latter when I got it. It's a neat mythos. :)
Crime; Not generally a fan, but I have ALL the Holmes.
I'd feel weird if I wasn't surrounded by books. We had so many growing up (literally several corridors lined with bulging bookshelves and more in the bedrooms) that other children used to joke that I lived in a library.
