Hi, folks!

This is post number five of a series of photos documenting my bookshelves.  I thought it would be interesting to create a meme/tag for it, so I am calling this series/meme/tag #knowthyshelf:

1) Book from this shelf you would save in an emergency:

• The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, 2009)

2) Book that has been in this shelf for the longest time:

• Ein Kind (Autobiography #5), by Thomas Bernhard (1982)

3) Newest addition to this shelf:

• Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood (2010)

4) Book from this shelf you are most excited to read or reread:

• Eva, by Carry van Bruggen (1927)

5) Any poetry books?

• Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works, by Aphra Behn, edited by Janet Todd (1992)

6) Any nonfiction books?

• The Life of Charlotte Brontë, by Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Angus Easson (1857)
• Selected Letters, by Charlotte Brontë, edited by Margaret Smith (2007)
• Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings, by A.S. Byatt (1990)
• Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison, by A.S. Byatt and Ignes Sodre (1995)
• The Brontës, by Juliet Barker (1994)

7) Most read author in this shelf:

• The Brontë sisters…

And now a question for you:
8) What does this shelf tell YOU about ME as a reader?

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Feel free to do this tag, too! As always, I’d love to peruse your bookshelves 🙂

Yours truly,

J.

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