As is tradition here at The Captive Reader, I am celebrating my (31st) birthday today by sharing my five favourite libraries from the last year of Library Lust posts. Enjoy!
credit: Vogue, December 2015
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designer: Simon Upton
credit: Sanz & Gradolí
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If you’re interested, check out past birthday editions from 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, and 2011.
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Belated birthday greetings. Sorry I’m late.
Thanks, David! And you are not remotely late – my birthday is today (so nice to have it on a Sunday rather than a working day).
Oh good. I’m so used to seeing your library pics on a Saturday I assumed I was a day late. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Happy birthday. What a lovely gif this post was for us library `lusters’.
Thank you!
Wishing you a very happy birthday, filled with cake and Elinor Lipman, and wishing I was in either the top one or the bottom one as I write.
All enviting. Good taste! Happy Birthday to you!
Best wishes for your birthday, and for the year ahead!
A very Happy Birthday, Claire and thank you for sharing these libraries with us again. Many happy returns – and “reads”.
Happy birthday! And a big thank you for your lovely posts xoxo
Happy birthday!
I cannot choose my favorite one so easily, but I hope your birthday goes easy. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday – hope you have a self-indulgent day!!
These are such great pictures if you adore books! I could just see myself, with book, coffee and cake, sitting on one of those beautiful chairs in the 3rd Simon Upton picture. Thanks for posting. Happy Birthday.
Happy birthday–hope you were able to relax with a good book in the perfect place.
A belated happy birthday to you! Did you get one of those libraries for your birthday? Wouldn’t that just be the ultimate???
Hope you had a great day!
Happy birthday! Wishing you many literary indulgences in the coming year.
Happy Belated birthday…hope you got your dream library! (I LOVE that last one!)
Happy birthday! I hope you got some new books to put in your own library
Happy Birthday a little late, Claire! I love looking at these libraries and dying with envy!
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