When I moved from Atlanta to New York a couple of months ago, I had to decide which belongings I could take with me to my new tiny furnished studio apartment and which I had to leave behind in a storage unit. Obviously, my furniture had to stay, plus most of the china and kitchenware, winter clothes, and knick-knacks. The really valuable - rather, invaluable - items like family Bibles and photo albums I left in Kate's charge (not in storage, thank you).Looking around my many shelves of double- and triple-shelved books, I had to make a decision about which books to store (most of them) and which to take as comfortable old friends. I limited myself to one medium-sized box - though I admit I spilled over to half of another box. As I made my choices, I could almost hear the other books crying out, "What! You're not taking me?" Sorry, old friends. I promise to make it up to you someday.
Well, here's what I chose:
- The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
- Teller of Tales by Daniel Stashower
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Line of the Sun by Judith Ortiz Cofer
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The March by E.L. Doctorow
- The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything, both by Simon Winchester
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- The Ponder Heart by Eurdora Welty
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgsen Burnett
- Inferno by Dante
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- Abraham Lincoln Trilogy by Carl Sandburg
- Marley and Me by John Grogan
- Forever by Pete Hamill
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- To Make Men Free and No Greater Courage by Richard Croker
- Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
- Miss Piggle-Wiggle Treasury by Betty MacDonald
- Pastoralia by George Saunders
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga
- City Lights Pocket Poetry Anthology (ed. Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
- 1914 and 1915, both by Lyn MacDonald
- The First World War by John Keegan
- Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
- The First World War by Hew Strachan
- The Great War: Myth and Memory by Dan Todman
- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
- A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
So, which of your beloved volumes would holler "Take me along!"?
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