Challenge: 50 Books discussion

It's Friday and this makes me really happy. Hope everyone else is having a good day and looking forward to the weekend.

So this is the question for this week: If you permanently lost your entire book collection, whether your collection is physical or digital, what would be the first book you would replace and why?

I think I would be to distraught and in shock to replace anything for quite some time, especially since there are a dozen books that could never be replaced in my collection. (My digital collection is backed up on a Cloud and much less important to me, phew!)

I think I'd start with my Nick Hornby novels because I adore them and read them whenever I need a comfort book. Followed by my Christopher Moore novels because they are downright laugh-out-loud hilarious and then I'd slowly move into trying to recollect all my favorite memoirs.

What about you, Lisa?

That's a really good question. I think my first replacement would The Catcher in the Rye followed by the Black Dagger Brotherhood books.

It would be really hard to decide what would follow. Ugh. I hope that never happens :)

I've gotten to be a big library user, so most of the books I buy now are non-fiction reference such as cookbooks and knit stitch dictionaries. Probably it would be a stitch dictionary!

I would start with by replacing my Neil Gaiman collection. He has become my favorite author over the past ten years. I'd probably replace Stardust first in the original 4 part graphic novel.

What a horrible thought! I could never replace books handed down to me from my grandmother and aunt dating back over 100 years. I guess it I had to start over, it would be a Bible! ;o)

It's a really tough question for me to answer too and I needed some extra time to think about it. I think the first book I would replace is The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen. Perhaps less for the book itself and more because of everything it sort of represents for me about a particular period of my life.

Second book? Probably The Great Gatsby and also for very sentimental reasons.

After crying hysterically I would have to buy my Little Women and my Harry Potters.

Hysterical wailing - I would have to scour second hand book shops looking for A Day in Ohinemutu - it has pictures of my Nana and cousins at her house.

Like Liz the books handed down from my grandmother to my mother, then me could not be replaced. A horrible thought.

I would start with my Star Wars collection along with some of my YA series (Percy Jackson, Harry Potter) because those are the books I am most likely to re-read.

I think it's so wonderful that some of you have books passed down through generations. I don't have that tradition in my family. Knowing my attachment to books, I can completely understand how wailing would occur.

All my books gone! What a horrible thing to contemplate.

I suppose I would first replace my Tolkien. I currently have four copies of "The Lord of the Rings" and re-read it periodically.

this question will give me nightmares! first i would replace the books that i was reading at the time the books were lost. then? that's tough, but i'm thinking The Great Gatsby. then my Ian McEwan books and my Tudor histories. and my travel books...