love the top picture of knitted monkies!
i am a book obsessive (amongst other obsessions and collections)....
here is one of my bookcases, this one filled with mainly 20s and 30s schoolgirl stories, some inherited from gran and great aunts; i have a couple of hundred more in a storage unit. note a.s dark coloured walls- navy in person, and a.s mess just visible on the floor.
i love the stories, the paper, the cover art,
and the illustrations...
my current obsession- old english/anglo saxon language- and some latin, welsh, greek and norse thrown in- the current pile around my bed.
i particually like the book on elf charms in anglo saxon christain services- really! and old english is the most beautiful sounding and looking language. im also slowly beginning to collect old dictionaries (cough-sad). which i enjoy reading. and i have four different editions of brewer's. which are all different, so its marginally less sad than it may appear.
i also am clearing out an old book collection- sci fi... bought for their covers, though many worthy in themselves.