Bookshelves

As I'm off to enjoy myself with my family for a couple of weeks I thought I'd leave you with some pictures of my bookshelves (please excuse the dust). This is partly because I love pictures of other peoples shelves (complete with making squinty faces as I try and work out what books I can see on them) and partly because I'll miss my books - specifically when I realise that what I really want to read is 'x', or the thing I might like to cook is 'y' but I can't quite remember what goes into it. 'Y' will be a cake.

          

These are almost all my cookbooks, but not by a long way all my whisky. Or gin. 

                 

The Virago books had to be moved into my bedroom when they took up to much space elsewhere, I still need more shelves but if I'm to sleep lying down (which seems the best way) it's not going to happen. Perhaps a bed built on bookshelves would be the answer? 

    The sitting room shelves - hard to take pictures of due to a wall being in the way, books are now pretty much floor to ceiling and increasingly double shelved. I wish ikea still sold these bookcases, they were really cheap, fit masses of books, and are totally inoffensive (they were also unbelievably easy to assemble compared to the bloody billy bookcase in my bedroom - for details of that particular trauma see here ). 

Right, that's it, weather permitting I won't be online much over the next two weeks after which I'll be back, hopefully refreshed, cheerful, and with books to talk about.