Sometimes I walk by my library and I just have to stop and admire it. It’s not Belle’s library but I think I have done a pretty damn good job with it. My husband occasionally sees me and asks what I’m doing and I respond with “I’m just looking at them”. Thankfully he already knows I’m odd, so this statement doesn’t phase him. Every once in awhile the shelves get overcrowded and I have to rearrange. It is almost that time again, as you can see. This is a chore that I do not mind doing. It gives me pleasure to add order to the books and declutter the shelves. “How better to see you, my dear” although “my precious” is a more accurate phrase, if I’m being totally honest. You know when you walk by the baby aisle in the store and you just can’t help it you have to touch the fuzzy blankets; it’s kinda like that. I have to pick a few up, shuffle through the pages, smell them. Very obsessive and Gollumy, I know. Does anyone else feel this way? I hope I’m not the only one.
As I am sure all book lovers have, I have been asked on several occasions “What is your favorite book?” This is an impossible question to answer. I could never narrow it down to just one. So, in no particular order, here is my top 10:
- The Wheel of Time series – Robert Jordan
- The Dark Tower series – Stephen King
- Eve Duncan series – Iris Johansen
- This Bright Beauty – Emily Maine Cavanagh
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
- The Marriage Pact – Michelle Richmond
- Reconstructing Amelia – Kimberly McCreight
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
- Stephanie Plum series – Janet Evanovich
- Sky in the Deep – Adrienne Young
These are books that I regularly recommend and lend to my friends and family. There are several series on the list, you can’t pick just one of them, I love the whole lot together. Go check them out!
