Photographic evidence…

Fellow blogger and inquisitive voyeur Jilanne Hoffmann challenged us to Show Our Shelves, so here we go…

I decided to stick with the tidiest bookcase and surrounds, since to show the piles in other rooms would frankly have necessitated far too much organising and dusting for a Saturday! And the ‘extra’ bookcase at the back of the wardrobe would require the efforts of a supple limbo-dancer to photograph and I didn’t have one readily to hand. So Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, Anne of Green Gables et al will have to remain in unphoto’d obscurity.

Points to note:

• Yes, that really is a box set of Enid Blyton on the top shelf.

• The discerning amongst you will spot that there are two layers of books on each shelf – so you’ll just have to imagine the Reginald Hills, the Anne Carroll Georges, the Val McDermids, the Ian Rankins…

• The politicians are on the bottom shelf – which seems appropriate somehow! I see Mandelson and Hague have got together not to mention Thatcher cosying up to Blair.

Then there’s the ‘OMG, where on earth will I put these’ pile(s)…

 

And no display of my library could possibly be complete without …

 

 

…my beloved Kindles, old and new. Hmm…only 65 in the Unread folder at the moment – must get some more books!

Well, what’s the verdict? Is there any hope for me? Anyone else out there willing to Show Your Shelves?? If so, link through to Jilanne’s Literary Mardi Gras, where you’ll also get a sneak peek at her own shelves. Go on….you know you want to!