What does your bookcase say about you?

I don't have any bookshelves for entirely this reason.

Plus i hate clutter, so as soon as I have read a few books I pass them onto friends or donate them to my local charity bookshop.

The only books I keep are recipe books - in the kitchen cupboard.

SFXmum - last move but two, the people who were packing our stuff wrote some really quite rude things on the packing boxes as it got to 'yet more b**dy books'. We didn't get charged much more though - they like books as they pack neatly.

Often treated as freaks for so many books and wanting to reread them

My bookshelves make us look highly cultured and sophisticated. No one need know the Shakespeare complete works have never been opened .

Do like my art books though, and DH likes (or used to) poetry and photography, plus we both did French degrees so we've got loads of French literature, plus cook books. Lots of contemporary fiction and kids books too.

Far far far too many, and far too much cash wasted on unread books.

is the vampire porn LKH? I have some of those

that it is bloody expensive to move

'you have how many books?' random astronomical number quoted because we must be freaks

Probably that I am butterfly-minded and I hate dusting.

Most of our books are in storage, whichi gives an interesting snapshot of the books we are actually reading or have bought recently

which is a strange mix of thrillers, short stories, romance novels and political biographies . And a set of the William books.

I've forgotten my bookcases in Lagos. In two and a half years I've gathered three bookcases full of books. I intend to leave most of them there when we come home for good. There's a shortage of reading material in the country so people appreciate extra books.

My bookcases say that I'm going to have a bad back moving them to have a new carpet laid. We have bookcases all over the house. Lots of non-fiction and classic novels. I tend to give away contemporary novels as I never re-read books. Dh has loads of books he never looks at and never will but refuses to part with. It means I end up giving away some books I'd like to keep.

We have many, many books. My office - 2 x 4'6" floor to ceilings and another two half height. Physics, nuclear physics, cookery, anatomy, Georgette Heyer, oral history, crime, sci fi, Terry Pratchett, and collection of advice books. DH's office - 2 x 4'6" floor to ceiling chemistry, geology, law, history, sci fi and fantasy. DS's bedroom - zillions of picture books. Spare room, another giant book case with my childrens book collection. All over house - light scattering of current books and board books.

But still we look like a book wasteland compared to my mother....

I have books on the windowsill in my bedroom and on my bedside cabinets.
My side says I read too much crime fiction (in my defence I am writing a crime fiction novel so I have an excuse) It also says I have children (parenting books) and am nosy (anthony kiedis' autobiography)

However DP's side makes him look all intellectual though, with factual books about Arthur, celts, Britain and Oxford.

That I used to read a lot but that I now have children and I buy them too many books !

Mine clearly state that I am an English Lit student who's not afraid of liking so-called trash, and that my partner has fantastic taste in comics. Also that one of us me is an untidy slattern who never puts their post away and rarely remembers to water plants.

Actaully, the girls have a full size book case each too, in their rooms.

3 book cases downstairs, plus shelves in kitchen.

Kitchen has cookery, travel and crap on it.

Others have variety of fiction (inc some chic lit), lots of travel writing,refernec books, boigraphies etc.
Then I have bookcase in spare room with lighter books, again more chic lit stuff.
And refernce book sin study.
Then couple of boxes in a cupbaord for dds when they are older.

And a crate in spare room of books for read it swap it.

Says I have too many!!
(Dh says the same!!)

Find it rather empty when you go to someone's house and they have no books.

I have far too many serial killer/detective books...hubby is quite worried he thinks I am planning the perfect murder

Cookbooks cake/baking books and weight watchers ones

Toddler taming (the pictures make me laugh), perfect walk books (which I have never used) gardening books (which I keep meaning to ebay) and "how to be a people person" (which I thumbed through then decided I just couldnt be arsed and would just stay anti-social if it was that much work!)

it actually says i have spent an awful lot of money on books and i ought to be an authority on a number of topics

Oh location.... one in main room but that holds mainly crap dumped there (box files, DVD's, shake n vac..... ), the man one is in the playroom but there's books scattered everywhere

it say's i have kids.

the only one that is on view has loads of children's books stuffed in it.

it probably says I buy the kids books before me tbh but also I give away ones I will never need again, gave away my Psych texts for example

The top shelf says we like humour (tom holt, pratchett etc), the next that I studied religions- lots of core texts such as the Qur'an, Bhagavad Gita.

The rest is kids stuff but I have 3 on the go atm, one of which is catch 22 so it's not all drivel- honest guv!

Hooray!!!!

i have a lot of poncey head spinning stuff of an arty farty cultural kind like lacan, derrida, schama,foucault etc, loadcs on politics and culture of south america particularly colombia, lots of photogrqphy books, big art library with a lot of large catalogues, interiors and house books, a travel library, business and html, photoshop books etc

cookery books, music and lots of gardening books, antiques guides and sewing and knitting

sailing. language and dictionaries

poetry and psychiatry/psychology

and loads of fiction qacross the spectrum

i have got rid of loads of books but i probably have about 800 on shelves in my not very big bedroom

and more downstairs