You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

Years ago,an ederly friend/rellie of mine was heading overseas & was invited to stay overnight before her early flight by the adult kids of some friends of hers. They were Yuppies & she was absolutely horrified that there was not one book in their entire house.

If a stranger came to our house they would form the impression that we read few books, while in  fact our enormous and well-filled book shelves are out of sight in the hall, we have almost 1000 books in our household Kindle account and we use the library so much that I reckon we cover our rates in borrowed books.

I'm too scared to count mine - six bookshelves hold quite a bit!

Sunny so far so did a bit of washing & nailed string along the fence for when I do planting  - need to get more too. I should know by now but somehow I always forget.

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I saw our first monarch butterfly for the season this morning   It made my day, a little bit of joy.  Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts, every now and then the tears come but they are becoming fewer.

MrK built me a bookshelf in one of the spare bedrooms.  There was a lotttt of swearing involved lol as it goes around a corner.  He built it so we could put doors on it if we wanted too.  We went through our books last year and donated loads to the book fair.  Ended up coming home from the fair with just as many lol.  I can't imagine not having books in the house.  Kids complain they had nothing to do back in the day, read a book!  And our love of books has been passed on through the generations with both of our kids and grandkids avid readers.  Books tend to be 'recycled' throughout MrK's family too, we're always swapping them.  The last person gets to either keep, donate, or if asked, returned to the original owner.    Ohh, and Lilith, your post about re-reading Watership Down has inspired me to do the same at some stage.  MrK has a gorgeous copy of it bought many moons ago.

Its always interesting, to read a book again after several years. The book is now very different, because we're different. Definitely interesting.
 I did manage to find Watership Down & it's coming apart so have glued it back together & if that doesn't work will get another copy.