G posted a meme asking me to reveal what’s on my shelves. I’ve never had one of these before… but I discover that a meme is a bit like a parlour game. G revealed her shelves in response to Slouching Mom’s show and tell. Slouching Mom was acting under orders from Niobe. I guess nobody argues with Niobe, because her blog is called Dead Baby Jokes… which must make people treat her warily….
When I went for a browse of G’s shelves I was really excited to spot that she’s actually got a copy of Planet Germany sitting there in plain view, nestling between a recipe book and one of those impressive coffee table books with photos of Berlin. Having seen that, of course, I couldn’t refuse.
But then I realised… if G has read Planet Germany, then she already knows that my house is the most chaotic, untidy and undusted place in the whole of Germany. If I attempt to cheat, by dusting a couple of feet of the bookshelf and taking a snap of that…. G will rumble me. She’ll expose me as a fraud, a cheat, a scoundrel… she might distrust me so much, she’d even mistake me for a Member of Parliament.
No… I had to do this honestly. No cheating, no attempting to put books straight and absolutely no vacuuming.
Ladies, gentlemen and dead babies of the world… I bring you *drumroll* my bookshelf! (Well, a bit of one of them anyway…)
And a couple of close ups just so you can see some titles (I’m still trying to distract you all from the cobwebs…)
OK… that’s done. Now I have to nominate some other bloggers to show their shelves….
Umm… let me see… I pick…
Mausi and Maribeth (only if you want to of course)
I suppose we should all breathe a sigh of relief it was the bookshelves this time, not the deepest depths of the kitchen cupboards…. or the dark recesses of the fridge. I wonder what did happen to that Camembert…..
8 Comments
April 4, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I would absolutely love to read some of those (very non-cobwebby-looking) books.
And I guess it would be nice (for me, anyway) if I did rule the world and everyone complied with my slightest wish. But, sadly (or not, depending on your perspective), that is soooo not the case.
April 4, 2008 at 4:52 pm
To be fair, that’s not a coffee table book (I don’t actually have any of those)- it’s the official Berlin residence packet they give you when you get a residence permit. The amusing thing is that they did not have it in English, so I have the French version, which I did wade my way through to understand things such as my integration
options;-).
April 4, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Okay, but you must give me a few minutes and then I will post the results. Oh dear, my bookshelves are a sight! But here goes nothing!
April 4, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Okay, it’s up!
April 4, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Yay! Brilliant!
Niobe… you can pop round and read my books any time. Bring gloves.
G… a Berlin residence packet in French! Wow… that must have helped you integrate into Germany!
“Ou sont les saucissons?”
Maribeth… you’re a star. And the curator of the world’s largest collection of books about the sex lives of dachshunds from the look of it… I knew you’d be a good pick!
April 5, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Hi cartooncat
I’m now days at NowPublic and no longer at Newsvine.
Pasi
April 6, 2008 at 10:58 am
Ooo! Every time I go to someone’s house the first thing I do is head straight for the book shelves oogling and fondling whoever’s collection. And now I can oggle people’s shelves without ever having met them. Oh what the internet can’t do!
The first thing my eyes were drawn to were the Harry Potters.
April 11, 2008 at 8:09 am
Finally doing my shelf meme today!