FIR ’11: Reading Question #4

FIR is hosted by Katrina atCallapidderdays.

Every Wednesday this fall, Katrina will be posting a question about reading.

Today’s question: How large is your personal/family collection of books? And where do you keep them?

With both my husband and I avid readers, the answer to this is a lot! And by a lot I mean we probably have close to 750 books. He enjoys old books and my collection is more varied. We were very lucky when we moved into our house two and a half years ago that there were built-in book shelves around the back window of the living room. I thought to myself when we first looked at the house that there was no way we would ever fill those shelves – boy was I wrong! Not only did we fill all those shelves, there are some that are two deep with books.

We also have a book shelf that my hubby made out on the enclosed porch that is slowly filling up with books, too. Of course, we each have a few books on our nightstands, too, but those books rotate depending on what we are reading.

Now, that number above does not include the over 1000 picture books I have still sitting in boxes in my basement from when I was teaching. That is another story for another day.

So how about you? What is the book collection like at your house?