Bookcase Showcase: Author LM Long

There is a library in my house.

Before you ask, I do not live in some million square foot abode.

I live in two thousand square feet of suburbia.

And yet I have a library.

I also have a touch of OCD.  Really, a drop of OCD because it only manifests itself in my library.  My books are arranged by category, and then by how much I love them.  Signed copies are in a special place of honor behind glass.  Books I don’t plan on reading again?  They get used as furniture.  Anna Karenina is currently my coffee table, and if I never have to reread the paperback of Paradise Lost adding height to my couch- I’ll be one happy lady.

 

 

Curled up in this reading nook, my husband approached me the other day with a package in hand.  I ripped it open excitedly, pulling the cellophane off a new deluxe edition of Jane Eyre.  

My husband clears his throat.  “Honey, you have a kindle now- don't you think you should look at getting rid of some of these?” he asked, scanning my bookshelves with wide eyes.

I nearly dropped my precious kindle.  “Sweetheart,” I whispered, “they can hear you.”

He looked around in confusion.  “Are you talking about the books?”

“Honey, they’re not books.” I hissed.  “They’re friends.”  

Struggling not to roll his eyes, he peers into the bookshelves again before shrugging his shoulders in defeat.  I turn away from him, hugging Jane Eyre to my chest tightly before diving back into my book.

“It was just a suggestion,” I hear him say, as he gently closes the door.

My website http://www.lmlong.com

and link to goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11750102-founder