I realized that I never posted about the Ideal Bookshelf that Jane Mount, a New York artist, painted for us. This was Telfer’s Father’s Day present and I picked it up shortly before I ended up in the hospital so I never mentioned it. It hangs in our entryway and we just love it. So April’s Bookshelf is the books represented in the painting with one exception – I loaned Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal to my mom.
Books:
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories | Alice Munro
The Cloister Walk | Kathleen Norris
Three Junes | Julia Glass
Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City | Eric W. Sanderson
Books Do Furnish A Room | Leslie Geddes-Brown
Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy
Pride & Prejudice | Jane Austen
Bleak House | Charles Dickens
Gilead | Marilynne Robinson
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader | Anne Fadiman
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows | J.K. Rowling
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | J.R.R. Tolkein
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science| Atul Gawande
Morningside Heights | Cheryl Mendelson
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life | Amy Krouse Rosenthal
1001 Books to Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall, ed.
Here is New York| E.B. White
Andrea Y. Griffith 
Did you have Mount paint those particular books (love the art!) or were the books something she put together? Great piece!
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You pick your “ideal bookshelf” and either take the books to her or send her a picture. Ideally (pun intended) she can paint the bindings of the actual copies you have if they are special to you. Pretty fun.
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Telfer — awesome! I love it! Now, you might need to explain how you guys came to “this” being the ideal bookshelf. So fun!
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