Tagged: What's On My Shelf

Danie (an old friend from college who happens to be living in Chennai, India) has tagged me to post What's On My Shelf. (Note: Although Danie has plenty of pictures in her post, there will be none in mine. I would have to tidy things first!)

Looking up at the books on the shelves above my monitor, I can see the following peeking out at me:

- An entire shelf of writing books, many of which were given to me by a friend in her "I'm moving" purge. At the other end of the same shelf is a grouping of small literary magazines, such as The Cormorant, Grain, and The Fiddlehead.

- Half a shelf of children's books, including the first four Harry Potters (still unread), then Rabbit Hill, Frosty: A Raccoon to Remember, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, and My Side of the Mountain (all favourites from childhood).

- All of the books written by Susanna Kearsley and her alter-ego Emma Cole: Undertow, The Gemini Game, Mariana (which is actually in my schoolbag at the moment), The Splendour Falls, The Shadowy Horses, Named of the Dragon, Season of Storms, Every Secret Thing, and The Winter Sea (which I'm about to start reading). I enjoyed reading Susanna Kearsley's work so much that I began a web page about her books a few years ago because there simply wasn't one out there. A little while later, Susanna started websites for her dual writing identities. She and I met and became friends at a book launch in October of 2006, and she's a truly wonderful person as well as an awesome writer.

- Rounding out this shelf is a mish-mash of some other favourites: The "Three Sisters Island" trilogy by Nora Roberts, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans, Contact by Carl Sagan, Malory's La Morte D'Arthur, and John Wyndham's The Chrysalids.

- The next shelf down is DVDs (a lot of Colin Firth), CDs (Josh Groban, Duran Duran, etc.) and computer games (The Sims, The Sims 2, all the expansion packs for both, Civilization III, etc.)

- I also have shelves dedicated to history (Canadian and more local), art books and magazines, and, of course, scrapbooks. There are books scattered on shelves all around the house, too (including my dozen or so Titanic-related books in the entertainment stand in the livingroom).

And now, as I sit here looking up at all of this, I'm hoping against hope we remembered to use anchor bolts on these shelves.

Incidentally, you can also look at my Chapters Community Profile.

Okay, I'm tagging the following people: Mare, Lisa, Kelly, Teri-Lynn and Cheryl.

Let's see your shelves, ladies!