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%$#@ing GORGEOUS!!!!!

wow, when you said drool I didn’t think I’d have to come up with a name for a new lake in my back yard.....

ditto J Perry Stone!

We won’t tell them your deep dark secret, Xtina.  That you have plenty of room on your bookshelves BECAUSE YOU GOT RID OF ALL OF OUR BOOKS BEFORE YOU MOVED!!!  (Picture Xtina saying, “Oh, I hope you guys won’t be offended if I give all of your books away” and me thinking, “Well, of course I won’t be offended as long as you’re TOO SMART TO TELL US ABOUT IT!!!")

Oh and by the way, the bookshelves are gorgeous!  (And what a perfect place to nap when your editor isn’t looking!)

I vote for your pox comment. You did build my dream after all....
They are gorgeous, bravo!

(whispering) Guys, Teresa is still sick and a leetle bit cranky. I’d suggest we all tiptoe away and leave her to rest with a cool rag on her forehead. Quick! Before she takes us down like gazelle before a female lion!

J, Laura, come up on my nest, we’ll pop a bottle of champagne, and stare at the view!

Oooh!  I am so jealous.  One day I hope to have such a lovely library.  I was just saying to my DH, we have too many books!  I love your secret hiding place.  Lucky you, Christina.

I’m envious! I have a few bookcases, but nothing as beautiful. And your hidi...er working place with the view.....great. Enjoy it.

The rest of you guys, climb up here. Bring another bottle of champagne! But keep it down, Miss Teresa is sleeping.

I’ve always believed that a girl can’t have too many bookcases and I guess you are living proof.  Enjoy them and your little roost you’ve earned them.

Now when are we all invited up to toast you with champagne and to help you dust.

Hi, Debbie! I think even the dusting will be fun—on a library ladder with wheels. WHEEEEEE!

Listen, I’ll ship you some of mine. I have two rubbermaid containers with books and only one bookcase for my books.  My DH has taken over a shelf with his photography stuff.  The kids have their own bookshelf/video/toy holder.....

It’s just not right!!

I’ll repeat J’s comment but in Italian: &^^$%#*(*&^ bellissima!

Ye gads, bookshelves and storage!  THAT is pure genius!

Oh, the bookshelves are gorgeous, and I know the view is wondrous (almost as good as Mountain Hood)!  BUT .. the hidden storage is to die for.  I am SO messy, and I want a place like that for my computer so I can just cover it up if I hear anybody coming.

Two things ...  1 question and 1 fact.
How is Ritter going to get to your aerie?  and Enjoy it, Lady, cause you deserve every bit of joy for all the hours of happiness you have given us.
Karen

I don’t have just a bookshelf, lol. I have a closet. It got to the point that I had so many books, I could not just stack them beside the shelf anymore, I had to find somewhere else...so I took over the closet next to the bathroom...it’s about 3/4 full now....I need more shelves!
Christina, bet what I have would make a dent in your shelves, lol!
Love the view from the top idea.....Hmmmmm

Lil

What luxury! You know, Christina, that you have just presented all these book addicts who frequent the hen house proof that heaven on earth exists.

Enjoy!

And if you decide to ask for recs for your TO BE Bought list, I have a dozen or so recs.

That room must be the pot of gold at the end of the writing rainbow.

I’m gonna keep chanting “bookshelves, bookshelves” while I try to figure out my synopsis.

Ditto on what everyone has already said.  Wow!  That room is......well.......Wow!

At one time, long, long ago....I had more book shelves - and more books!  I amassed them through buying at book stores, book clubs, second hand book stores and yard sales.  Then - oh horrors!!! I had to move to smaller quarters.  Now I do not have such beautiful, lusted after books and bookshelves.  But now there is the Library...whew!!!  I miss my books and bookshelves.

The idea was my husband’s—he’s a designer, he knows me really well, and fortunately for me, he likes to make me happy. I’m telling him about the pot of gold comment and the heaven on earth comment. You all will make HIM very happy.

No one can send me her books. I have to fill the shelves myself. And I’m pretty sure it’s Bookcase of Dreams—since we built them, they will come.

So far, Ritter has refused any offers to climb the ladder. OTOH, I haven’t been up there much because the ladder I use is aluminum and has seen better days. And I haven’t sat up there for long periods because there’s no cushion. So we’ll see what he thinks when I’m up there sle..working.

Janga, if you want to post your recs, I say do it. I’ve got a list going just in case my tbr pile ever shrinks. HAHAHAHA!

Is there such a thing as bookcase envy?  If there is, I have it!

Christina, the bookcases and your little private hideaway are stunning, gorgeous, beautiful, amazing, stellar.....well, there just aren’t enough words to describe it. 

Now you have the perfect setting to write the wonderful books for us to enjoy! 

--dorothy

Those bookscases are just to die for!!  I might have more than you, but yours are prettier!

OMgoodness! I love them, I am jealous. Right now my shelves are housed on our landing between floors. One day I dream of having shelves like yours!

That room is just, well, perfect.  ‘nuff said.

You are one lucky duck! a great husband & a custom library~! ... I ditto what thisiskaren says, too. champagne… all around. a nice quiet party in Christina’s library- makes for a perfect start to the weekend. I am adding my fav. wine to the champagne. And I think everyone should get to read the new paranormals for party favors. .

MUST… NOT… EXPLODE ...FROM...JEALOUSY....

My blue eyes just turned GREEN.

Ditto what J said.

Christina’s castle is just too awesome.

Your husband is a ruddy genius!!  He’d make a mint on this design.

Santa
Whose favorite scene in Beauty & the Beast is when he gifts her that glorious library!

Christina, thanks for sharing those pictures of your office. What a dream of a place, especially that nest up there! Your husband is a genius!

Let me see now: he’s a fantastic cook, he builds the office of your dreams, he likes to make you happy.

I challenge you to come up with a single fiction hero more perfect than that.

BTW, when I first read your need more books to fill shelves bit, I thought you were making a tongue-in-cheek remark about you writing more to fill those shelves. All those currently up on the shelves are all yours, right?

Okay, all I kept thinking while I was looking at the pictures of your gorgeous library is what a neat place it would be to play around in for kids!  Can you imagine… the secret room and loft you can only get to by ladder.  All I can say is good thing yours are grown!

It’s beautiful, just beautiful!

Keira said, “Your husband is a genius! Let me see now: he’s a fantastic cook, he builds the office of your dreams, he likes to make you happy.”

Cook? He can cook? All right—has he been sneaking to your house and cooking? Because I have to tell you, around here he’s only good for peeling carrots and popping corn. Not that I’m complaining, mind you, but a cook he is not.

Santa—Whose favorite scene in Beauty & the Beast is when he gifts her that glorious library!

Me, too, Santa! And then they waltz! In my next life, I want to waltz, too!

Karen W and Ann in IL .. hehehehehe. I know. I spend a lot of time sort of touching the bookshelves, gloating. It’s not attractive, but there you have it. I love my shelves.

IrishEyes ... are you saying I have to behave like an adult about the secret room and the loft? Er ... right. Sure.

Soon I’ll blog on the fireplace. It’s almost done and you would not believe how cool it is.

Man, absolutely gorgeous! Since I can remember I have always planned a library room in my ideal house, but haven’t had the opportunity to realize that dream.

I live vicariously through you now Christina.

Xtina, I adore you tons but right now you’re at the top of my S@#t list. I’m so jealous of that library my hair will grow green. Sheesh!

Truthfully, that is so beautiful! And every woman/man who adores books would be jealous!

WOW!

Wow. That seems to be the only *nice* word I can pull out my brain. Uhm, yeah.

Wow.

There are lots of other words, but it wouldn’t do to type them here.

I’m trying to be nice. Really, I am.

Oh, wait, here’s some more:

‘Gee Christina, you’ve worked really hard and you sure deserve an office like that!’...  And… uuuuuhm… ‘Well now, good for you!’

Ok, that’s it. That’s the best I can do because now I have to walk away from my ‘office’ which is really in my CLOSET and go sulk.

But I’m trying to be nice. Really. I am.

I just love your little hide out! Forget filling the bookshelves.... Get thee to Linens & Things for the cushions!

Congratulations!

Christina, beautiful, gorgeous, lovely etc. Enjoy!  You also look wonderful as a model.  Now, you can join the Price is Right as a Barker Beauty.

Hey, I may still be a little feverish but I’m not cranky!  I even deleted my comment where I asked how you got up to the top of the bookshelves--on your broom?

Okay, first—this is my office. My library has MORE bookshelves. If you want to check them out, go to:

http://christinadodd.com/photos.php

I know ... I’m firmly in the obnoxious b***h category now, aren’t I? But I have never in my life had enough bookshelves before. I now have to live forever because I’ll never get all the books read if I don’t.

Thanks, Elsie! I do look berserkly smug, don’t I?

And Teresa, are you saying the fever burned out the crankiness? Because you’re always cranky, and ... Oh, no! Her flying monkeys are circling the house! Runnnnn!

Okay, that’s it!  I’m posting pics of my bookshelves next week!  That’s right!  I have bookshelves too!  And flying monkeys!  And a big black ChristinaDodd-sized cauldron!

Keira said, “Your husband is a genius! Let me see now: he’s a fantastic cook, he builds the office of your dreams, he likes to make you happy.”

Christina said, “Cook? He can cook? All right—has he been sneaking to your house and cooking? Because I have to tell you, around here he’s only good for peeling carrots and popping corn. Not that I’m complaining, mind you, but a cook he is not.”

I remember a certain evening not too long ago, when he made Mexican food on the grill, while you and Susan Mallery were busy chugging, er, delicately sipping, bottles, er, one glass each of pink champagne.

Hope you post photos of the rest of your office, too. We caught a glimpse of it on RomanceNovel.tv, but a full-on view would be great.

I just took a look at your house on your Website. Finally, a modern house with traditional stone surfacing and roofs that slope on all four sides! Beautiful!!!

Keira said, “I remember a certain evening not too long ago, when he made Mexican food on the grill, while you and Susan Mallery were busy chugging, er, delicately sipping, bottles, er, one glass each of pink champagne.”

Ohhh. I prepared and marinated the fajitasl. He turned on the propane powered grill, slapped the meat on, and sliced it when it was done. I’m not going to say that if I go toes-up, he’ll starve, but there’s going to be a lot of salads and chili in his future.

Thank you about the house. Scott designed it—if he went toes-up, I could never move because I cannot design a home—and modeled it after the Tuscan villas. I lu-ove it.

I’d love to do a video tour of my office and put it on the website, but then I really would have to put the stuff away in the closet. ::sigh::

Christina, what beautiful shelves. Your office just became my inspiration for getting my butt in gear and getting published! 

I love the idea of hiding and being Jo March! You should spend plenty of time up there sle..I mean writing

Beautiful room. From what I’ve seen on the website, your whole house is beautiful, but that isn’t the part that makes me envious. IT IS SO CLEAN!! I truly envy that!

I have to share, my 6 yr old was looking at the pictures with me and he said, “Are those magic bookshelves?”

Okay, the clutter and small toys I constantly step on are worth these brillant observations.

Terry Jo,
1. I have a housekeeper who comes in once a week, praised be her name.
2. I love your 6-yr-old. Write that down, you can use it in a book!

Xtina, I certainly hope neither you nor Scott go toes-up in the near future. After all, you’re a match made in heaven, er, earth.

Christina wrote, “...modeled it after the Tuscan villas.”

Liz is blogging about flights to Tuscany in her Saturday music blog. Hm. Looks like a trip to the Pacific NW is in her future?!

My veri word is “west19.”

Teresa, hope you’re doing much better now.

I would literally kill for those bookshelves!!!

note to self: stay away from catslady

Wish I had sufficient space for shelves like yours. I have enough books in totes in my storage shed to fill approx 3/4 of the shelves in your office.

Tina

Christina…

I think the bookshelves are great.  I think the HIDDEN STORAGE SPACE is beyond great.  It’s fabulous!!!

Eloisa

I’m pea green with envy!  I think I could even give up chocolate for a room like that.

Can I get video of those shelves to show my husband!!!

Seriously… My inlaws are carpentars