Saturday, January 3, 2009

Books books books...


A love that Dustin and I both share is our love for books and reading.

We can go wandering around the shops all day and not spend any money, but if either of us wander anywhere near a Dymocks, Angus and Robertson or a QBD bookstore we find our bank account quickly diminished and our arms weighed down with hours of reading material. Whilst we both have our differing preferences for fiction novels we have found we both also have a love for non fiction. We have reference books on all sorts of subjects from Astronomy to The Mysteries of the Mind and from Ancient Egypt to the Lipizzan Horses in Austria

While we both Google to find out modern facts and knowledge we find it is so much more fun sitting down and reading a book about all sorts of things. 

When we were first married we found we did not have a book case for the books that we had gathered before we met and so we went to Lifeline and bought a second hand bookcase for $20 that we thought would hold our books and the many more that we would buy during our marriage. As it turns out, we have not been married yet for 5 years and already our bookcase is overflowing and collapsing with our collection. We both hope that one day we will be able to have a library in our house with all the walls full of books with places to sit and enjoy reading them. I guess we will need another bookcase or two before that happens. Whilst we will eventually get more bookcases I don't think we will ever get rid of the first one we bought together even though it is water damaged and only holds half the shelves it is meant to as it holds sentimental value for both of us and symbolising a love and hobby we both share. Does that sound crazy to anyone else or just sappy and sentimental?


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I guess we are all book nuts. Love Mom

tawnya said...

Um...We bought wall to wall bookshelves the day we moved in!

Sandra said...

I know Tawnya thinks I am nuts, but the most romantic movie scene ever is when Beast gives Belle his library. Better than all the jewels in the world- a whole library!

loretta said...

We have books in, I think, every room of the house. The kids know mom is always going to give them a book for Christmas & they love it. And Tawnya, aren't those bookcases just about full?

tawnya said...

They are definitely getting there!