Continuing the book meme that I hadn't consciously begun to follow, we have about 70 feet of books in this house, give or take a couple.

Lyman ditched his law books, so those aren't included, though we kept Black's dictionary. That does include cookbooks, gardening books, other reference and literature.

Like Kate, I try to keep acquisitions down through borrowing. I like books, but I also like space to walk, to dance, and to sew (one day, again).

I left most of my humanities collection in Oregon, also a good many books in New York.

To a desert island, I would take my translated edition of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, an untranslated edition, a definitive French grammar, a definitive French dictionary, and a Bible, and pray that I could finally get through that sucker.