What's in my Library?

Panorama of Sue Evergreen's two-tiered library, which contains various authors, including Meyer, Collins, Clarke, Larsson, Harris, Tolkien, Martin, Zimmer Bradley, Gabaldon, Stephenson, Tolstoy, Austin, Kingsolver, King, Brown, Rice, and Clancy.

My most treasured objects are in my Library.

Can you imagine the smell of paper when you open a book, whether ancient or new? The weight of it in your hands mixed with the anticipation of something new to carry you away or something familiar like an old friend sitting down at the table for a favorite meal together.

My books are some of my most sacred objects. I have lugged around, boxed up, stacked, swapped out, traded, and bagged up my books for years. Some of my oldest books have made it through living in a VW bus, a tent, a travel trailer, and many houses. They have journeyed in backpacks and purses, through hospitals, schools, airplanes, on bikes, walks, in the stress, the peace, the trauma, the good times, and everything in between. Fiction or non-fiction, reference books, history, classics, field guides, textbooks, medical books, I love it all. They have always given me a place to go outside or inside myself.