Happy (33rd) birthday to me! As usual, I am celebrating by sharing my five favourite libraries from the last year of “Library Lust” posts. Enjoy!
Wormington Grange (photo credit: Hugo Rittson-Thomas)
credit: Town and Country
credit: Bruce Wilkin Design
via House and Home
For more stunning libraries, check out past birthday editions from 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, and 2011.
The Captive Reader 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Would you like to see our library?
Catherine Nicholls Ashbrook, Winsford Somerset TA24 7HN 01643 851430
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Thanks, Catherine! And I’d love to see a picture of your library – feel free to email one to me.
Happy Birthday! Love these libraries. Thank you!
Thank you!
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays!
If there are birthday books, I hope you will share them too.
We’re not big on gifts in my family so there was just one gift – but it was a book: Gardenlust by Christopher Woods.
Books and birthdays 🎂 are a wonderful way to start the day!
Agreed! What could be nicer?
Happy birthday! Always a pleasure to read your blog and clearly you’ve got many more years to produce it!
Thanks, Hilary!
Happy birthday, Claire! I love the libraries.
Thanks, Audrey! I have to say I’m particularly pleased with this year’s library selection. I’d be delighted to have any of them in my home.
Happy birthday, Claire! Thank you for your enjoyable blog!
Thank you, Eva!
Happy birthday, Claire!
Thanks, Grier!
Happy birthday Claire!
Thanks, Sharlene!
Happy Birthday
Thanks!
Happy Birthday, Claire! I hope you bought yourself a pile of books!
I did (although I anticipated my birthday and did it a few days in advance) – I ordered four new books from Slightly Foxed. A fine way to celebrate!
Happy birthday! Books, comfy soft chairs, a fire, and a dog. Perfection. Am assuming the dogs in the other pictures had just left the room for a minute.
Undoubtedly. A nice docile lab is just want those other rooms need!
As this is late: happy birthday-week.
Thanks, David!
Happy (belated) birthday, Claire. All the libraries you selected this year feature a blazing fire, which looks particularly appealing on the cold, snowy day we’re having where I’m at.
Yes, it was an unintended theme but I was undoubtedly influenced by the cold snap here. Still, what pairs better with books than a roaring fire?
Happy (belated) birthday! Love the pictures, especially the first two—so classic. I’ve always dreamed of living in a house with built-in bookcases.
By the way, I read a book this week that made me think of you. I know mystery/thriller isn’t your favored genre, but you might like this one, since it’s set in 1960s Czechoslovakia! The title is The Piper on the Mountain by Ellis Peters—it’s actually the fifth in a series, though it’s not absolutely necessary to read them in order (though it’s nice coming into the book acquainted with the one recurring character, who has grown up from about age thirteen over the course of the first four books).
Glad you enjoyed them!
Thanks so much for the book recommendation. I loved The Coast of Bohemia by Edith Pargeter about her travels in Czechoslovakia and general love of the country (it was one of my Top Ten Books of 2017) so it’s nice to hear she incorporated that love into one of the books written under her Ellis Peters pen name! I’ll have to keep an eye out for it.
Claire, I have never recommended a book to a blogger before, but I believe that a new book by Liz Treacher titled The Wrong Envelope is just up your book-lined alley. The sequel, The Wrong Direction, is also excellent. Both are light, witty, charming, and British.
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll keep an eye out for it.