Hello again friends! This week was mostly going through books on the shelves in the master bedroom. I also cleaned some of the shelves and emptied a few cabinets in the entry way but haven’t gone through that stuff yet. It was some antiques, some china, and a jar of marbles. So more china info coming in the future at some point.

The Bookcases

Here are the bookcases. I didn’t grab a picture of the right one before we started going through books and stuff. But Ben also just pulled a bunch off the shelves without looking at what they were about or anything so I will have to go through those. There are a few things that are on the shelves that are there to be out of child reach. Like that record player and the cut glass on the very top of the shelves.

Books!

So, we found some pretty cool books. Some more exciting than others and this small selection is just ones that I went through today and not even all of the ones we found. Some of them aren’t even ones I planned on keeping but were pretty or cool looking.

I guess I will start with the pretty/cool ones that I wasn’t planning on keeping. The Scripture Text Book for Daily Use is a pretty one and was surprisingly small. The Whittier Yearbook is a collection of poems written by John Greenleaf Whittier. The Memoir of Sarah B. Judson is the biography of an American woman’s missionary trip to Burma. (This one may end up being kept as one of Ben’s ancestors was a missionary to Burma so may be mentioned somewhere in the book. But I don’t remember their name.)

This one, Gems from Bryant, is so Victorian. It is not only that Victorian style with the flowers and poetry but it is also a puffy book. But it is so gorgeous!

Upon research, Alice of Old Vincennes, is a fun find. According to Wikipedia, it was in the top ten best-selling books for most of 1900 and 1901. The story of the book follows a woman named Alice during the Revolutionary War in Vincennes. The general consensus from people who have read it is that lands somewhere between romance and historical fiction.

Another book whose historical worth became evident only with research is In Old Virginia. This book was one of the first books to be written that reflected the dialect of the slaves in Virginia. A full summary can be found here.

The Young Man’s Friend was a fun find for the copyright date of the book alone. The book was written in 1865. As far as I could tell from flipping through it, it’s about how to be a godly man.

Other fun book finds are; The Nibelugen Lied, House of Seven Gables, The Boss of the Lazy Y, Myths of Old Greece, and Eclectic Readings: Stories of Great Musicians. I believe I have House of Seven Gables, The Nibelugen Lied, and Myths of Old Greece in the keep section.

Not Pictured Books

A first edition second printing of Gone with the Wind. Almost an entire shelf of records that I haven’t gone through yet. A boatload of various crafting books of all types. There are also a bunch of books about antiquing.

And so my week was full of sorting through and looking up books, as well as, wiping off and cleaning the shelves before putting books and things back on them.

Thanks for reading and checking in on our adventures,

Lots of Love,

The McMullin Family