3 books you'd grab if your house were on fire

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Chuck Amuck by Chuck Jones (animation geek that I am).

My last high school yearbook. Contains the last things my mom said to me.

“Apartment Finding for Dummies.” Well, my house is on fire isn’t. I don’t have the “Firefighting for Morons” edition.

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I’m not counting photo albums in this list because I don’t consider those to really be “books”. I’d rescue them from the fire for sure, but I wanted 3 other choices too :wink:

  1. My family bible. It’s huge - weighs at least 30lbs - and has inscriptions of every major family event, including births, deaths, marriages, etc. since 1825. It’s priceless and irreplaceable.

  2. My mother’s handwritten recipe book. It has hundreds of recipes for dishes I grew up with, and since my mother’s been gone (passed away from breast cancer) for 12 years, I can’t call her and ask her how to make something. Besides, it’s one of the few things I have left that was my mother’s.

  3. The journal I kept on my 6 week trip to Israel in 1978, which has some very interesting (and hilarious) observations from a 17 year old on life and times in the Holy Land as well as some touching comments from friends I made on that trip.

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank

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I would only worry about my Bible. The rest can all be replaced easily. My Bible has personal notes and thoughts in it that cannot.

Although I am a voracious reader, I can always find more books.

Of course, I don’t have a special edition, signed by the author, copy of The Stand. That, I would definately have to save!!! That is King’s finest work.

“My, my. Such a lot of guns around here and so few brains.”
~Humphrey Bogart in “The Maltese Falcon”