Dorothy, I would love to browse your shelves too. And thanks for you generosity in choosing the know thyself option over the I’m self-centered option

Rebecca, your second hand books say plenty about you. You’ve kept them after all so there must plenty of interesting books on your shelves!

Vipula, LOL, I love it, “I only read what dead people wrote.” Can you whisper in a creepy voice “I read dead people?” ala The Sixth Sense movie?

Daphne, I’m sure your remaining books are very talkative. Glad you like the idea for the novel. One day…

Grad, my bookshelves say dust me too but I’ve gotten pretty good at ignoring them.

Iliana, I would love to browse your shelves. I am sure your books and I would have much to talk about

Claire, heh, you are a girl after my own heart!

Danielle, I am certain that we are both immortal. And thanks for so generously interpreting my pretentiousness. As far as the lack of poetry on your shelves, well, since you are immortal, you have plenty of time. I know there must be an inner poetry lover just biding her time, waiting to be born.

Amused, it’s all in the way you interpret it. You can say you don’t need to buy so many books or you can call it your retirement savings

Carrie, I’m glad you think the story would be good. I’ll start working on it when I’ve finished school and have had a chance to recover. Please blog again! I miss you.

Ella, well if you only have enough books to grant you another 20 or 30 years, you might want to start haunting used bookstores to increase you longevity

Leonsagara, I’m going for more historical and factual but I like your idea!

Litlove, I’m sure you can come up with some good ones with this meme. Or barring that, let me peruse your shelves and I’ll help you The book is gestating at the moment. Perhaps it will start to be reality in a couple of years.

Kathleen, you must be immortal too then. There is no other explanation for why we have so many books.

Sylvia, life before marriage the journals were hidden away but my dear husband has absolutely no interest in them, bless his heart. I love the labels you put on your boxes!

Jodie, you are so kind. I have not read The Last Witchfinder but I have it and am looking forward to reading it one of these days. Your BA dissertation sounds marvelous. I don’t talk about my witch interest much because you’re right, people do look at you a bit funny. I have somehow managed to miss Stuart Clark but I’ll be adding him to my list for further research. It’s really hard to get stuff when you aren’t affiliated with a university but now that I work in a library I’ll be able to do some good digging.

Rebecca, loved your answers. The witch craze is a truly fascinating subject. Salem was mild compared to what went on in Europe.

That was a fascinating anecdote about the witch craze! Adding that subject to my ever growing list…

(Oh, and here’s where I posted this on my blog: http://drunkliterature.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-do-your-bookshelves-say-about-you.html)

My BA disertation was about the logical rhetoric that helped to create the witch craze and seeing that at the end of your post is like finally meeting a like minded person again, rather than the hordes who squint at you a bit funny when you talk about history and witches. I wonder if you have any part of the series on witches through history by my dissertation leader Stuart Clark?