My own personal library.

One of my goals in life is to have a personal library in my house. I've wanted one for as long as I can remember. People who have whole wall book shelves make me green with envy.
For a while, I just kept every book that ever came into my possession. I had boxes and boxes and boxes of books in my parents' basement and shed. Eventually, my dad told me I needed to go through them and decide what ones I needed and what ones could be donated. Then, when we joined the Air Force and were told we had a weight limit of what they'd pay to have moved, I knew I'd need to be pickier about what my library would be made of.

So, I went through all my books. We had one tall bookshelf that was housing as many of my books as it could hold and then I had piles of books everywhere throughout my house. I feel like I've done a pretty good job. I inherited another bookshelf from a friend and now I have a shelf for books to read and a shelf of books I've read and want to keep. I'm slowly on my way to having my library.

Some of the books on my keep shelf:

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Harry Potter series

Almost the entire James Bond series

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Just a few of them, but ones I do so love.

Notice I didn't even mention the girls' books...that's its own separate library. :)