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October 22, 2007
Reading is Clearly Not Fundamental
This pales in comparison to Margaret's collection, but I have 52 boxes of books in my house. There will probably be about four more boxes. Plus, Nathan has more in storage.
some interesting tidbits:
The cookbooks outnumber the fiction.
I'm surprised there were only two boxes of knitting books. I'm eternally grateful to Stephanie, because her books are all trade paperbacks and they came in very handy to fill in weird spaces created by big flat hardbacks. (And they're all good to read and stuff.)
I have five boxes of unread books. OH, THE SHAME.
There is a whole box (or will be) of books about making cocktails.
We own four copies of "Our Mutual Friend".
Comments
What's the saying . . . "whoever dies with the most books wins?"
Posted by: Nathan at October 22, 2007 6:35 PM
And I'm not even in the top 50 libraries on Librarything anymore. *sigh*
Have you read at least one of your copies of Our Mutual Friend? That would make you one up on me and my single unread copy. :)
And it's perfectly okay to have lots of unread books, because otherwise you might run out of new things to read! (This is what I am constantly telling myself, with 313 unread books as of today.)
Posted by: Margar at October 22, 2007 10:24 PM
I am jealous that you have so many books.
Posted by: grace at October 23, 2007 7:38 AM
Maybe you can open a library in Vallejo...
Posted by: Bob at October 23, 2007 6:03 PM
Kate and I have both read Our Mutual Friend. My Penguin copy dates from about 1982 when I read it the first time in college.
Kate - I know you included the two softcover editions and the 1865 American edition that I have, but did you also count the odd 1880's magazine version that appears to have been a discount book club edition? That may make five copies.
Posted by: Nathan at October 24, 2007 3:57 PM