What are your favourite books?
I’ve visited people and they had none, I didn’t like to ask, occasionally there would be a tabloid newspaper but that was about it. Sometimes people would have a few romance novels, or old classic ones by Dickens or Stevenson which they probably inhereted from an older relative or were prizes from school.
I was talking about this with my partner because we are both avid readers. I know my mother collected abridged versions of books from a book club run by readers digest and she also had a subscription to their monthly booklet. I remember reading books by Hammond Innes and Alistair McLean as I became a teenager. I was also seriously interested in science fiction and particularly liked Arthur C Clarke and Issac Asimov. The three laws of robotics.
In my adult life I fell in love with Terry Pratchett who wrote fantasy fiction. That was probably because my partner introduced me to JRR Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin. I’m also interested in science, art, biography physics and science fiction. So we ended up having over a thousand books if you count all his books about trains, bikes and tractors. Sometimes I just look at all the shelves and wonder where they came from……
Mallaband-Brown 
I have a bunch of books and I’m constantly trying to get rid of them, but I think they mate at night and I’m stuck not only with THEM but their progeny.
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In our case its one out eight in or something like that ratio….
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I have some beautiful art books I need to find homes for. They’re huge, weigh a ton and are kind of obsolete in this day and age. And Chinese novels no one will ever want. I dunno…
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I’ve got lots of coffee table art books. I keep them in the studio and hope they make me look erudite (not)….
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I would fall in love with a painter then invest in a book Turner is one.
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Yes Turner, Van Gogh, Manet, Monet and many more. I bought the dvd of the film Mr Turner but haven’t watched it yet.
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It’s good. I learned about Turner from Simon Schama’s “The Power of Art” — until then, I just thought the paintings were bad :p But now I have seen more and I love them.
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I think I remember seeing them in London about 1980. Can’t remember which gallery
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Yes. Put a couple of them together on a shelf and they multiply. Books do breed. 🙃
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No birth control AT ALL.
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🤣😂
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Love this post. Science fiction – detective novels – books about physics, cosmology, cosmogony. Yes! the books need places to be and there are sooooooo many of them. And, yes, they breed. 🙃
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Definitely!
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I have a kindle. I know it annoys my brother that I have no books on display but once read they become dust collectors. You can download library books onto it as well!
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I love my books. I have over 1000, I don’t have to look in an index and find them I just take them off the shelf. If I read them in the bath they just get wet, not broken/shorted out.
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