There are books in the bookcase that were either left off midway or untouched, including a few of mother’s that have seen the world longer than I have, priced at just 35pence each then in the UK.

• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
• Completely Unexpected Tales
• More Tales of the Unexpected

• Happy Deathday!
• Stories to Stay Awake By (Book Two)

• Blind Assassin
• Cat’s Eye
• Alias Grace

• Mary Anne
• Rebecca

• The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor
• The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
• Switch by Kevin McColley
• Sing to the Dawn by Mingfong Ho
• The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery ✓
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (A peculiar palm-sized book with gold-rimmed pages.)

• Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
• The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
• The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
• Perfect Strangers by Robyn Sisman
• Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
• Citizen Girl by Nicola Praus & Emma McLaughlin

• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Memories of a Nonya by Queeny Chang
• Marley & Me by John Grogan
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Goldman
• The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
• Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
• Benjamin & Jon by Mary Ellen Heath
• Mandarin by Robert Elegant
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean
• True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

• Journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller

• Let There Be Reign by Brant Parler & Johnny Hart
• Kampung Boy (Yesterday & Today) by WAT
• Orson’s Farm (Annual 1991) by Jim Davis
• The Adventures of TinTin – The Calculus Affair by Herge
• The 1974 Topper Book
• Mad Magazine No.312
• Mad Magazine No.376
• Archie Comics No.479

A total of 45 spines to crack altogether. 3 years ago

Have been on an off reading phase for way too long, any book, not just my bookshelf… Not sure I know how to get back into it. Anybody? 18 months ago

Yes! I can do nothing. I’ve read Stephen Fry’s book, well one of them. City of Bones was gone in no time. Heart of Darkness and Lady Chatterly’s Lovers are taking a bit more time but I’ll get there. Gotta read, sew…work. :/

This does not mean I should buy more books… 23 months ago