A special birthday edition of Library Lust: I’m twenty five today! In honour of that, I thought I’d celebrate by posting my five favourite libraries, all previously lusted after:
- from Perfect English by Ros Byam Shaw
credit: Alejandro Erickson
Eklund Stockholm New York
credit: Francisco Costa
credit: Sköna hem
The Captive Reader 
I like 3 and 5 mainly because you can sit and drool over your books! Happy birthday.
Happy Birthday! I like number 1, perhaps because I am English?
Happy, happy birthday.
Happy Birthday!
A very happy 25th birthday.
Many Happy returns.
I love all your choices – can just sit and dream about them!
What wonderful libraries. I’m quite green with envy. I like the third one best I think, but not sure why. And that second one is just stunning.
Happy Birthday!
The third one and the fifth one are my favorites as well. I think they’re the most inviting — I’d love to poke around all those shelves but I suspect the books are all in Swedish!
Happy Birthday!!
Have a wonderful birthday and hope books are involved!
Here’s wishing you a very happy and bookish birthday. What a well-read young woman you are.
I like the one with the long comfy couch. Also, happy birthday! Have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday! Love all your library choices!
Happy birthday Claire! I didn’t realise you were younger than me… by just under four months 🙂
Wishing you a very happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Claire!
Happy Birthday! I am (a little bit older than you..ahem) tomorrow–my birthday is on the 20th. Gorgeous libraries–don’t you wish you could escape into one of them and lounge the day away?! Best wishes.
Happy B-day to you! I had no idea. I sent you something this week, so hopefully you’ll get it soon – it can be a birthday surprise now. 😉 My oldest dd will be 15 tomorrow – she will love knowing that y’all are sharing a birthday weekend.
As for the libraries, the toile wallpaper in the 3rd one does start the mouth watering, and the blue and white in the 5th one just forces me to relax. Love them all! Hope you have a wonderful birthday!
Happy, happy birthday! Oh, to be 25 again and know what I know now, to paraphrase many an elderly wrinkly like me!
The books pix … I like the first one best, although the second is uber-fantastic. I have the book Perfect English by Ros Byam Shaw and it’s a book I continually return to. Second choice would be number three in New York.
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Happy birthday, Claire! I love the library pictures. I think the first and last ones are my favourites.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!! Twenty-five quite a milestone.
Happy Birthday! I love the pictures – all of them. Favorite would be #1 although #2 is jaw-dropping. Is there really such a place?
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Belated happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday! I love the last library- it’s so light and airy.
Happy Birthday!! I’ll be joining you in the ‘mid twenties’ camp in three months! Hope you had a wonderful day.
Happy Birthday! My favorite library of the five is the last one, especially because of the fuzzy chair.
What wonderful libraries to spend your birthday in! A very happy birthday to you.
Happy belated birthday! Hope you had a lovely day…and cake!
Happy birthday! I hope you had a marvelous celebration and got lots of bookish presents!
Happy belated birthday! Wish you had a great time 🙂
Mine was on the 20th too (same as Danielle’s!) Lovely library pics…. esp the 1st and last. So soothing to the eye and mood.
Happy Birthday and I love these libraries!