I love blogging! I drafted this post, and then I thought, ‘it’s a little disjointed’, ‘why this book isn’t with that book?’. So after completely reorganising my books, hopefully now they are stored in a way that makes sense to you – it certainly makes more sense to me! Oh and I decluttered two books that I wasn’t entirely proud to have listed :p
Firstly, books are largely hidden in my home, after spending a time in a room with a wall lined in books. I just find the visual too cluttery. So here’s what’s on show in my home:
Beside the radio
In the same shelves, above the radio
And on the bed ledge
These are the ‘plan to read’ books.
- Israel is Real, Rich Cohen
- Each peach pear plum
- An intelligent life
- Holocaust sites of Europe
And here’s what’s hidden behind closed doors
Wardrobe
French Books (in French or about France)
- 12 steps to find a job
- The game master (Le maitre du jeu)
- Objectif Paris
- If it is a man (Si C’est un homme)
- Bonjour Tristess
- Bonjour tristesse
- Improve your French
Gifts
- Poland <- a gift from a Polish friend when I studied in France
- The Bronze Horseman <- from an Aussie friend who visited Russia. I read Paulina Simons ‘The Bronze Horseman’ and so I asked for the original poetry. But I can’t read cryllic!
Other books
- Honeymoon with my brother – Franz Wiesner
- The Christmas Mystery – Jostein Garder
- Plan B – L.R. Brown <- all about alternative ways in life. Like no flush toliets, and Chinese meat consumption and global warming
The Back Row
Holocaust Books
- The holocaust odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando
- Night, E. Wiesel
- Eyewitness Aushwitz, F. Muller
- Among the righteous, R. Satloff
- Ester and Ruzya – Masha Gessen, Masha Gessen
- The Seamstress – a memoir of survival, S. T. Bernstein, L.L. Thornton & M. Berstein Samuels
Holocaust Books
- Parrallel Lines
- Hiding Edith
- Mosaic
- The Messanger
- Auschwitz, Auschwitz, How can I forget you
- Human Smoke
- Safe Passage – Ida Cook
- American Heroine in the French Resistance
Spirituality/Mental health
- Mister God, this is Anna
- Affluenza
- Growing to Maturity
- Finding happiness
- The mindful way through depression
- The invitation
Linen/pantry closet

The top left hand shelf on my pantry/linen closet hybrid holds all these binders and books. There’s 3 travel journals, two stamp collecting binders and all sorts of university and floristry course notes
- Striped book – Inspirations book from 2006
- Spiral bound black book – more inspirations
- Photo album from high school
- Blue display book (empty)
- First travel journal from 2006
- Second travel journal from 2006
- Third travel journal from 2007 onwards
- Plastic case of brochures for future employers etc
- Binder of bank statements from France – 2006 onwards
- Empty binder
- Stamp collection (Australian)
- Stamp collection (foreign)
- Binder of floristry assignments and remaining notes
- Tax envelope for this year’s receipts
- Receipts of clothing spending, electrical items, scooter related costs
- Writing paper and envelopes
- Lists book
- Atlas
- The Sweet Poison Quit plan
- Humourous check list
- Journal from 2011-12 (with lists to move house etc)
- Emergency
There you go, I think that’s about all of the permanent resident books in my house. There’s a constant cycle of library books, of course. I pretty much won’t buy a published book now days – between the library, my mother’s house (which feels like a library) and my uncle owning a book store, I have an endless source, it would seem! I will only buy 2nd hand books when I am heading overseas, and leave them there. How do you think I did? Minimal?