Are you tired of my bookshelves yet? I told you I had a lot of books. When a person has over 800 books, a tour of their bookshelves is bound to be long. Especially since I’m not just giving you pictures of each shelf. Hmm, now that’s an idea. I could just give you the pictures and– You don’t like that idea? Okay. Then let’s get on with the second half of the bookcase.

This time we’re starting on the bottom and working our way up. Why? Just because I wanted to do something different.

As you may have guessed, this is my “children’s” shelf. On the left I have some larger books that won’t fit standing up. Then to Rod & Staff books. Followed by most of my Moody books. (Someone was borrowing the first book when I took the picture.) Then I have Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka, and maybe one or two Snipp, Snapp and Snurr books. I loved those growing up! Perhaps it had to do with my best friends being twins and us pretending we were triplets so often. And yes, I still like those books. 🙂 That set of different colored spines are my Billy and Blaze books. Very wonderful and fun to read. Next is a mixture of all sorts of children’s books, some Little Jewel books, and then my small collection of Little Golden books. If you want to know favorites, just ask. 🙂

 

Now the books are for a bit older reading level. The first collection on the left are my “twin” books. I don’t have them all, but we do have some others that were my grandpa’s when he was a boy, so between the family and me, we have almost all of them. Have you ever read the Ginnie books? My favorite is Ginnie and the Babysitting Business. (It’s the small turquoise book to the right of the white one.) Then we have Sensible Kate, Ready-Made Family, and Runaway Alice. Then the grayish book, followed by When the Dikes Broke next, and Silent Wings. The Railway Children has a white spine, and is followed by a childhood favorite: Baby Island. Yes, maybe that book is a bit unrealistic, and yes, perhaps a bit far fetched, but I still love it. It was the kind of thing I would imagine myself doing. 🙂 Let’s skip to the red book. That’s Understood Betsy. Such a fun and delightful read. Next are the Sarah, Plain and Tall books. Skipping ahead because we’ll really be here all day if I have to tell you every single book on my shelves, we stop at the yellow one and the one to the left of it. These are both by Homeschooled Author Perry Kirkpatrick. And her Kitten Files would have been next if they hadn’t been at a friends’ house. Such fun books to read. The tall book to the left of the yellow one is Toward Morning. Exciting and delightful to read. If you want to  know titles of the rest of the books, ask.

Let’s got up to the next shelf. It won’t take as long, I promise!

The first book is I Wonder Where This Road Goes? It is a compilation of all my grandparent’s diaries, maps, letters, and pictures from bike trips they, and mostly my grandpa, took. It’s really fun to look at and read. Those three matching books are the letters my grandma wrote to her mom in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. They start before my grandparents got married, and include photos of the family, their kids, and events. I haven’t finished the 80s book, or gotten started on the 40s. They aren’t available on Amazon right now. Sorry.

Next we get How They Kept the Faith, Escape from Kyburg Castle, Hans Brinker, and the Castleberry’s courtship books. There is a book missing as it hadn’t yet arrived from Sweden. That book is The Tangled Skein by Alta Seymour. Very fun and exciting book to read! Next are just a few older books I’d picked up here and there. The North Point Cabin Mystery. And two X Bar X books.

And then the next 5 books are some old books of games. Some of fun, some are rather strange, but they are interesting. The final books on the shelf are my small collection of Christmas books. These are duplicates from the large collection the family has. They include my favorites, A Pint of Judgement, The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas, and The Bird’s Christmas Carol.

Ready for the last shelf of the day?

Michael O’Halloran starts off the shelf on the left. I like that story except for all the words I had to white-out! The Shepherd of the Hills and That Printer of Udell’s come next, followed by In His Steps and Stepping Heavenward. This shelf is kind of a mixture of books that don’t really fit in a category, or that are by indie authors and aren’t for younger readers or historical fiction. So let’s move on.

My own book is there! The Unexpected Request. It’s rather surprising because I actually only own my first four or five books that I published. Is that sad? I should probably get myself copies of my own books. 😛 Journey to Love by Amanda Tero is the light colored book between the two darker books. Next is The Silent Blade by Jesseca Wheaton. Left to Die by Ivy Rose needs to be read by you if you haven’t already read it. And you should also read Kate’s Innocence and Kate’s Capitol by Sarah Holman. (I’m somewhat patiently waiting for book 3 in the series.) The next book is difficult to read the title, but it’s Sufficient Grace by Jessica Greyson. Next are six of the Andi books by Susan Marlow (No, she’s not a homeschooled author nor an indie one either.) I have two of Bekah O’Brien’s books next. Then I have part of a series. The rest of the series are the reason I have my kindle. I wanted to read the rest of the series and found out I could get them for free to read on a kindle or kindle app. Well, since I didn’t have a phone to read them on, and there was no way I was going to sit at my computer to read, I got a kindle. It was cheaper than to buy the republished books.

And that, book lovers, is the end of the books outside my room. Well, the ones that are mine anyway. Did you find any you want to read? Do any of my books match books you have on your own shelves? I ‘d love to know.