Writers usually have fairly decent-sized libraries.
I was thinking about this as I started packing some of my personal library to make room for some of the books I’m selling on ABE.
I’ve read many of the books I’m offering but there is one catalog that I’ve been collecting for a while now and it’s pretty much a surprise to me.
See, I don’t cook. I gave that activity up about ten years ago. Okay, I do make little things, quick meals like breakfast and lunch, but I don’t consider that cooking.
Cooking happened a long time ago when I made my own won ton dough for homemade war won ton soup, when I perfected my shrimp scampi, when I made 20-pound turkeys (and all the fine food that goes with them) to feed groups of friends on Thanksgiving.
So when I looked at the number of cookbooks I’ve put together to sell, I was shocked to discover I had forty books listed on ABE!
My favorite books do fall into the non-fiction genre, especially books about the brain and certain crafting books, especially on mosaics (which is a hobby of mine) and crocheting (not because I’m very good at it but because I’d like to figure out how my mother made some of those fantastic tablecloths and afghans).
I know I’m rambling here. I guess it’s because I can hardly bare to stuff all my lovely reading material into the guest bedroom closet.
I’m just glad I don’t have the extensive libraries some writers have (or had). (I bet there aren't many cookbooks on those shelves.) I’d have to move into bigger digs if I did.
