Sunday, September 17, 2006

Here a book, there a book...

Everywhere a book book. Only the bathroom and the dining room don't house books here at Chez Turtle. I'm a book whore. What can I say? Speaking of whores, let us begin our blogstalking adventure in the bedroom. Heh. The Yearbooks and Spiritual Stuff Here we have the entertainment books on the top shelf (yes, deodorant too, apparently), Spiritual/Religious books in the middle and yearbooks on the bottom. Somehow, this combination makes sense to me in some twisted way. No, my priorities in life are not Freddie Mercury, God, and the evolution of my hair from kindergarten through college. Anyway, onto the corner of the room where I hid my college textbooks. Th college books That's the thing about being a science major. Research is always being done and textbooks are constantly being updated. I couldn't even sell these back at the end of the semester if I wanted too. The bookstores didn't know whether or not it would be used the following year. I'm loathe to be rid of them. I do enjoy occasionally leafing through them. Especially my Zoology book. Alas, Administrative Assistants rarely need to know their genus from their species. In the kitchen, I even have a small collection of cookbooks! Shock! HPIM2678 Hey, where's my "Cooking for Dummies" book? Ah, hiding behind a magazine. HPIM2679 It really is for dummies. It even tells you how to boil water. For real. In the living room, we have my main book collection. Fiction and non. (click and look at a bigger pic through flickr to see the titles) The Majority The plants on top, from left to right are a mishmash of philodendrons, African Violets, an Orchid (that I got for $5 on the bargain table of the local greenery. It's about to sprout a stem for the first time in 4 years at least.) And finally, a Dieffenbachia picta Camilla. It's recently been hacked back since it was getting leggy. It's on it's way back to bushy health. And how do I know it's full name? Well, onto my office. HPIM2677 The Dictionary/Thesaurus I got at my high school graduation for having perfect attendance for at least 4 years. I actually had it back to 6th grade I think. I could count the days I missed. My sister only missed one day of school through her whole career. It was the one day they went to the house of history on a field trip. She had scarlet fever. She also missed a day her senior year because activities related to gaining admission to the Naval Academy. But that didn't count since it was school related. Or something. Anyway. Next to that we have my interior design books (looking around, you can tell I haven't really used them) then my - oh hey! There's my college diploma! My tape collection, and finally - my plant books. As well as a beginner spanish book and a cocktail guide. Heh. But you're here for the knitting books aren't ya? Across the room, we have a better collection of knitting books than most bookstores or LYSs. The Knitting Ones Again, click to read the titles. I keep the magazines and binders with all my knitty patterns and whatnot on the bottom shelf. And there, my friends, is my entire book collection. Anyone need to borrow a book? Heh.

10 comments:

Trillian42 said...

See, this is why we get along - book whores unite!

And, um... Son of a Witch is spiritual? :D (Don't get me wrong - I love Gregory Maguire, I just thought it was a funny categorization)

Batty said...

Yup, book whores are wonderful. And it's so good to see other people with a separate knitting shelf and a separate cooking shelf!

The scary thing is, may of these very same books are on my shelves too. Go figure.

cpurl17 said...

I was distracted by the large cones of fiber on your trophy bookshelf.

Is that a Tribble on your knitting bookself?

Bezzie said...

You forgot to mention how much thicker science textbooks are than normal textbooks are too. Some are timeless, but yeah most go out of date in 4 months!
Great pics...

gray la gran said...

what i really want to know is the story behind the bowling trophies!
your cami & shrug combo is very nice. it fits you well :)

Zonda said...

Nice job!, darn, now I gotta go organize mine before I can take a picture! ;)

KNIT A NEW DREAM said...

I am a book whore as well. I could read and knit all day. Between my nursing books and my knitting books - I could start my own library. Sue

Macoco said...

Oh it is such a guilty pleasure to look at other people's books!

May said...

Yeah, what's the 411 on the bowling trophies, chick??

We need to get working on your fiction category ;)

Rain said...

The yarn that snuck into the book case photos made me smile. It gets everywhere doesn't it!

My brother is a goodie two shoes too and only ever missed one day (broken arm) whereas I had the worst attendance of all 5 of us.