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What books would you highlight on your staircase? I’m thinking Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Undomestic Goddess, The Good, The Bad, and the Uncanny, and Magic Lost, Trouble Found.
This gave me the idea to turn a staircase into a bookshelf. Too bad I live in a single floor apartment right now lol.
-Eliabeth
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Actually, if I could skip the first step… I read all the rest. I’m into literary fiction and I was in love with the Book Thief and To Kill a Mockingbird which I just read. The Secret Garden is forever going to be one of my favorite stories. Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are timeless, ageless, and brilliantly imaginative.
Totally agree with you on The Secret Garden and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not so much with To Kill a Mockingbird.
Hehe! The reason I read it is because a number of people told me I write like Harper Lee. I think the similarities are superficial, but I did probably have a strong bias.
One of first things I ever read on my own back in 4th grade were these mysterious black hard-bound books from my late grandmother’s collection. I was told by my father not to touch them, so of course I was terribly curious. They turned out to be the Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling. My mother caught me reading them and, “Oh no, that’s fine, Honey,” so I don’t know what the big deal was.
Anyway, the second book included a set of short stories at the end called the Just So Stories. I loved them. I memorized them. I quote them, Best Beloved, for there is a good deal more in them than you might think, as you can see by the following Sloka, which as you have not heard, I will now proceed to relate…
Lesson of life hide in clever tales
Of stubborn camels and greedy whales
ooh, nice! Mine would be Animal Farm, Jane Eyre, Alice in Wonderland, The Divine Comedy, The Screwtape Letters, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Oh I love your choices. I like 1984 more than Animal Farm and I’m about half way through The Divine Comedy.
this reminds me of Joyce Meyers this past week where this was the symbol she used to get her message across. I think it is a wonderful idea you have here. each time you walk the stairs you are reminded of what ever is important to your own life by the labels you place
I saw another one that had the beginning Star Wars text going down the stairs. You can tell alot about a person by what they choose to look at every day. Thanks for commenting.
you are welcome, the Star Wars is awesome!
Now I’m going to have to buy a house so I can paint my staircase like this. Even more awesome would be if you had the steps painted to be a bookshelf, and then turn the side of the stairs into an actual bookshelf.
Check this out: http://pinterest.com/pin/495677502706943514/
Yes! Exactly like that, but also with the painted steps.
This is a wonderful visual. I would add a stair for Diane Setterfield’s THE THIRTEENTH TALE.
Haven’t read that one.
Thanks for stopping by.
Brilliant!
Xx
Beautiful idea for a staircase. I would keep the top six steps and also add Robert E. Howard’s Red Nails, Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World, The Sacred Band by Janet Morris & Chris Morris, and The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber. I would need a lot more stairs to get more of my favorites in there.
I was about to say, you need a three or four story house! Either that, or more than one staircase to the second floor.
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