How many book shelves to you have and what is displayed on them? What do you collect?

[BlondGirl]

In my home, we have 5 book shelves up and one waiting for when we run out of room and need more shelving space. Mostly I have books on mine, but on one shelf, I have displayed my son's Awana club awards and such, another has photos and candles. In my son's room, he just shoves everything on/in/around the shelves.

As far as collectables, I am a lizard-lady. I love to get them when I can. I have many on display at work on the shelf above my desk. Here, they surround my computer. I plan to get a lizard tattoo someday--maybe-LOL. Of course, I collect books too. I am not much of a library person--just too lazy to head otu there. (Another thing I like collect is old Red Cross safety instruction books. I have one from 1940.)

What about the rest of you Lit-people?

 

[xlc67]

Well, I'm not into knick-knacks (sp.?)...I do have a room in my house that was a dining room and it has a plate ledge around the perimeter about six feet from the floor. I keep various types of vases on it...

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

In the living room I have a nice half oak bookshelf I have my video and audio equipement, media on/in. I have a few momentos there, a lava lamp and an antique chime clock from my grandparents house.

Beside my computer desk I half two full sized nice oak bookshelfs full with mostly books. On top I have some photos of my daughter and other relatives.

In the spare bedroom there are three full sized cheap bookshelves full of reference books, magazines and so on - some of which I should go through and through out - even though I did that a couple of years ago when I moved.

I am not much into collectables - although Dogbert and Jibba Jabba man sit on top of my computer monitor.

My daughter and her husband are into collectables big time - that seems to be all they have on multiple shelves. When they have kids they are going to have a lot of broken stuff.

 

[xlc67]

Of course it goes without saying, but I display the Nobel Peace Prize I recieved for my generous contributions to the world on a special shelf in my bathroom...

 

[HARDKOREBJ]

WHAT DO I HAVE

books,award that i`ve won,movies,i have many things on wrestling like lighters,straws,posters,autograph pics,old news papers,t-shirts from 70`s/80`s,nude pics,old bicycles,coins,cards of baseball wrestling,football,hats

 

[Sephiroth]

In my house we have at least a half dozen full bookshelves. The one in my room holds about 100 sci-fi books that I've collected over the last several years.

 

[Mellon Collie]

Between me and my room mate we have seven bookshelves in our house filled to the top with books and on top of that books just lying around. For some reason I cannot get rid of a book, I just feel so bad giving it away or *gasp* throwing it out. So if anyone ever is thinking about buying a book come see me, I'm sure I have it for you to borrow.

 

[FlamingoBlue]

My bookshelves hold books; about 1000...

or so. As for collections, my house is filled with Native American art and artifacts.

blue

 

[Wizard]

`In our living room we have those shelfs you build on the tracks.............Must be 15 or so 12 inches wide holding books , computer stuff, and one holds all our little race cars we have.....

 

[*Lazer*]

I have seven bookcases filled with books. I am in the process of recycling them down to the ones I cannot do without. I am not a collector of anything except pictures. Those are for the most part candid shots of loved ones. Several framed watercolors by this humble dabber.

 

[Natalie Nessus]

I have wall of bookshelves in my study, actually a wall and a half ,crammed with books. I collect old records and have more bookshelves with my collection of vinyl

 

[KillerMuffin]

We have about four bookshelves, though one is used as a pantry. Books, however, are crammed everywhered. In the shelves, under my desk, on my desk, next to the bed, in the closet, in the kids room, all over the bathroom, and we put some wood on a couple of stacks for side tables in the living room.

We're bookworms.

 

[nasty]

I have 5 shelves. 1 is full of Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries. On the rest of tem, I keep my CD's, books, and memoribilia.

 

[lilminx]

Bookshelves?

Please... I'm still living like I'm in college- it's awful. I have crappy knick-knacks and some cool candles on my TV display thingie. Most of the books I have are college textbooks or books about sex, and they're in an antique chest I have...

 

[lavender]

 

[Willing and Unsure]

i have 2 shelves here... and 8 more at home.. all completely full with books... i stuck some small stuffed animals (beanie baby size) on the shelves to give it some character.. and then there's still a few stacks of books that are lying around all over the place

 

[JazzManJim]

Lots and lots and lots of books.

I have five bookshelves right now - four of the three-shelf models, and one that's a large five-shelf modular thingie a friend gave me when he saw that I was outstripping my shelves' ability to handle the books I have. And then there are the two CD/Tape racks I have (but, then again, I'm a musician. It's allowed!).

There's just about everything on those shelves - from Role-Playing Games to Stephen King to Agatha Christie to Sean Stewart to a lot of non-fiction.

As far as what I collect, well...stuffed animals. I don't know why, but I'm a sucker for them (yeah..and a 33-year old he-man sports junkie, too. Odd, ain't it?).

 

[Barb Dwyer]

My family room was designed so that one entire wall was dedicated to built-in bookshelves. So this room has floor to ceiling books. The corner also has a built in stereo system and room for albums, cassettes, CDs and DVDs.

Each bedroom also has built-in alcoves or bookshelves - also overflowing with books.

I am not much into traditional knick knacks- or 'dust collectors' as I call them. I can't stand that frou frou stuff that other people collect. Besides, it is too much work!

I do display artifacts from my travels abroad. To break up the monotony of the books, I have interspersed African carvings, an Australian boomerang, a kimono, a Mexican whip and sombrero, Russian nesting boxes, a Turkish coffee set, some pipes and several ivory and jade pieces from the Orient. My friends call it my "Round the World in 80 steps" room!

As for the books themselves, well, my tastes are eclectic here too. These include all genres- from medical books to sci-fi to murder mysteries. I have biographies and travel guides. Series and historical tomes. I also have a special shelf for my trashy novels, but I do keep my erotica safe in my bedroom! I have a few interesting books and magazines that I display on a coffee table and more on an oversized ottoman. I like to make that a sort of rotating display with different subjects so that people will always find something of interest and feel free to plop themselves down in a chair and start reading if the mood strikes.

Wow- reading all this makes me sound like a pack rat. Well, I am an organized pack rat if nothing else!

 

[MissTaken]

Books Books and more Books!

I have more than a thousand books. My interests in books and literature has changed over time, but I can't seem to discard the old books.

I have everything from my Hardy Boys collection to Stephen King. Lately, Patricial Cornwall and James North Patterson top the shelves. There are some social interests sorts of books, french poetry, historical romances, biographies and historical works, and of course, an original edition Dr Seuss "The Cat in the Hat."

Oh! I also have many music and guitar books.

As for collectibles, my special collection is knick knacks that are special to me. There is no common theme.

 

[Starfish]

I don't know where to start....

Books:
I have a bookshelf in my dining room for Cook Books, Bibles or religious books(of all sorts).
Know this.....God wants to be close to the food.


I have a reference library for Horticulture, Botony, Biology, Ecology in my living room. I have an entire bedroom that has books in every drawer of my Childhood furniture. Books from Medical encyclopedias, to historical books, to art books, and some various shit... Like a book on Midwifery written by the folks at The Farm in Tennesee.

I also have a box of books (various shit) in the basement waiting to be incorporated into the house, but they are getting mildewy, and I have to give them an outdoor lysoling.

Collectables:
I collect Turtles and Torts in all forms, (figurines, wooden, glass, ceramic, etc...) but yet to follow Laurels steps (where torts are concerned), because I have yet to have a summer/winter habitat for them, but don't doubt that in the next ten years, God willing, I'll be right behind her.
I am getting a turtle and a paladarium for Christmas.

Carved wooden boxes .
Things my friends give me.

I display this stuff by various means, when not in storage (which most is).
I use wall hung shelves, antique stands or shelves(given as heirlooms. Seems that I am the only young one in my family reliable to entrust historic stuff too, and that's cool by me), my computer desk has shelves so I put stuff up there.(David bought me a new one so that I could use the old one as a sewing desk.)

My big thing though is live plants and animals and those don't get on bookshelves unless they were place there or they are being bad.

 

[Bob Peale]

11 Bookshelves, all filled with books.

I have every Stephen King hardcover (including the Dark Tower Series), a family history for my wife's family that goes back to the 1300's, scores of computer programming books, even more finance and investing books, way too much fiction, and all of my college textbooks.

 

[cymbidia]

Two-and-a-half walls full of books in one room (the room we call our 'library' cuz it's got books, a big reading chair, a table and a lamp - what else would we call it? Oh yeh - the little boys train set lives in there, and that big pop up tent he and the dog play in. That lives in there, too. It's still the 'library'.)

One crammed bookcase in here, my office.

Each kid has a bookcase in his/her room.

Books on a long low shelf between the kitchen and breakfast area. I think the shelf is supposed to be a counter to eat at but it was immediately tagged as a book shelf when we moved in two years ago.

Books/magazine racks in all the bathrooms (four).

Books piled on the dresser and bedside tables in my bedroom.

Books in the guest room, everywhere.

It would be easier to pinpoint where books *aren't* in my house, quite frankly.

And the books are of all kinds. I never sold a single textbook back when i was in college. All my old books from when i was a kid are there. Leather-bound, dog-eared classics jostle for space with Goode’s World Atlas, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and every book ever written by Laurell K. Hamilton. Shelved next to variously colored volumes of fairy tales is an extensive collection of hard cover Pearl S. Buck novels. Clavell, Tolkien, Hawking, Shakespeare, Herbert can all be found in my shelves, and those like them. Softcover scifi, mysteries, horror, adventure, Oprah's picks, NY Times bestsellers, and grocery store checkout counter #'s 1-10 all compete for space. Stacked here and tucked there are issues of various periodicals someone in the family wanted to keep for some reason.

I collect old (like pre-1900) science textbooks and etiquette books. They each have a section, too.

It's a major job to move us, i'm telling you.

 

[BlondGirl]

God wants to be close to the food.

This had me laughing out loud. I just got home from church where our music pastor was emphasizing that the true meaning of the word "Baptists" is really "Food People". LOL We are having a planning meeting for the next year's church finances and, of course, when you have a bunch of Baptists gathered together in one place, there is a major requirement of sweets.

 

[JazzManJim]

Ouch! A Flashback!

This had me laughing out loud. I just got home from church where our music pastor was emphasizing that the true meaning of the word "Baptists" is really "Food People". LOL We are having a planning meeting for the next year's church finances and, of course, when you have a bunch of Baptists gathered together in one place, there is a major requirement of sweets.

I recall lots and lots of potluck dinners and dinners on the grounds and such like that where there was just food, food, and more food. It has to be a Baptist thing to just get together on occasion and chow down!

 

[beckbabe]

We're pigs. If this were the only room in the house with books we'd be ok. . .