Making the cut...

Thank you for all the lovely comments I received yesterday on my new garden sign.  Everyone offered a book or two that they would have used had it been their sign, so I thought you might like a list of some of the books that didn't make my cut.  Let me tell you, the selection process is brutal, when you love all of them!  In no particular order here were places I considered and then decided for various reasons not to use:

Chawton Cottage (Jane Austen's home)

 221B Baker Street

Orchard House 

(home of Louisa May Alcott and where she wrote Little Women)

Balaclava College 

(Peter Shandy mysteries by Charlotte MacLeod)

Miss Minchin's Seminary for Girls

where poor Sara Crewe was enrolled

Manderley

Who can forget the first sentence in Rebecca?

215 Fergussen Hall

Dormitory assignment of Jerusha Abbott (the college name was never mentioned)

Daddy Long Legs, by Jean Webster

St. Mary Mead

Miss Marple's Village

Winterfell

Home of the Stark Family

Eddard and Catlyn Stark, Game of Thrones

Whoville

And believe me, there were many more books than just the ones shown here!  But in the end, you just follow your heart and you can't go wrong.  And isn't it nice to have so many wonderful books to choose from?  

Surprise
by Beverly McLoughland

The biggest
Surprise
On the library shelf
is when you suddenly
Find yourself
Inside a book-
(the HIDDEN you)
You wonder how
The author knew.