Changes and Arrivals

[rj_anderson]

March Break is turning out to be a remarkably unproductive week for me writing-wise, but I've got quite a bit of household and family stuff done. Last night we painted the walls of our dining room a rather fetching new shade:



Look closely. Can you see something -- or someone -- hidden in the picture? Here she is close up, no doubt wondering how she ended up perching in such a strange plant:



And finally, here she is again, in her proper place of honor on my Bookshelf of Fannish Delights. She does indeed look comfortable -- and now she can glare at me from a suitably high position if she feels I am not doing her justice.



Thank you so much, cesario!

P.S. Yes, I know that bookshelf is scary. Nevertheless, only two of the volumes it contains are not mine. Guess which?

Comments

[avarill.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[kerravonsen]

Nevertheless, only two of the volumes it contains are not mine. Guess which?

I can't tell, because I can't read all the titles.

Why is the bookshelf scary?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Just the sheer preponderance of Anne Perry novels and the presence of a couple of old Frank Perettis, really. Not that scary, I suppose, but slightly embarrassing.

And I've just realized you can't read the titles of the two that aren't mine, but they're two audiobook westerns my husband bought to listen to while driving. He loves Louis L'Amour...

[olmue.livejournal.com]

Pretty! And I didn't tell you before, but great doll! This is from Knife, right?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's the eponymous heroine herself.

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, the 'Complete Yes Prime Minister'† is the least obviously connected to the other books, but that means very little.

† Possibly the best tie-in book the BBC has ever produced from a TV series - it does genuiunely add something at once new and totally in keeping with the world we saw on the screen.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I agree about the awesomeness of the book, which is why it is indeed mine. But like I said to kerravonsen above, I've just realized the reduced pic is too small to let you read the titles of those two aberrant Westerns. :)

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

I love the color of your dining room. I like deep, intense color.

[jprickett.livejournal.com]

And here I thought I was the only person who owned copies of "The Tower Of Geburah" and "The Iron Sceptre".

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Heh. Unfortunately, I had to give up on the series after that. When I read Gaal the Conqueror and ran into the line, "Oh no! We're caught in a guilt trap!" my eyes rolled so hard they nearly fell out my ears, and I decided either I'd outgrown the series or John White had just fallen too much in love with his own psychology degree.

I loved Geburah when I was a kid, though.

[risti.livejournal.com]

Oh! I did... At least, my parents did. Growing up the bookworm of the family, I appropriated all family books. Only I don't remember seeing these in awhile. And now I want to reread them...

And to the below comment... I remember taking some of the later books out of the church library later on, and too found that they weren't quite the same.

[doll-shop.livejournal.com]

*beams*

The best part is how, not only have I read those Frank Peretti novels, my copies had the same exact covers.

I tried to reread him recently. It was...different.