Do you remember my woe regarding unstable piles of books earlier? I even published a photo to prove what a charming library I have. Needless to say, the necessary time to sort books out for Oxfam hasn’t materialised. Yet.
Mother-in-law is coming for Christmas. I don’t know what is worse, having a witch for a daughter-in-law, or having to sleep in the library. I need to deal with some of the piles, now, or risk injury to our guest.
I’m addicted to good house magazines. In one of them, I recently found a new “interesting” wallpaper. It’s a pile of books. And I believe the price is something like €55 for one metre. Who’d want to artificially make their room look untidy, with fake books? It’s like buying jeans already faded, worn and torn.
(The thing I can never stop myself doing, is to check the pattern repeat. Once you see where the same book turns up again, next to another book which is also the same… I’d go mad.)
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Peter // December 21, 2007 at 8:23
Criminy, how do you manage to keep your books so straight and tidy? Mine have started to spill over into my kitchen.
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bookwitch // December 21, 2007 at 9:34
That’s the wallpaper, Peter. At €55 a metre I’d want the piles to be straight. And it’ll be the kitchen next in this house, too.
Laurie // January 3, 2008 at 3:51
Who needs wallpaper when you can make a rainbow?
Here’s a link to inspire you, since I don’t know how to add a picture here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/96822943@N00/pool/
At one time there was (maybe still is) a bookstore in San Francisco called Adobe that arranged its entire stock by color. As anyone who has worked in a bookstore knows, incredibly, people call or come by to say they are looking for a particular book. Don’t know its title or author — but it’s red, they’ll say hopefully, and then wait for you to produce it.
Direct them to this store: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4182224
bookwitch // January 3, 2008 at 7:50
Wow! That looks good. My one problem with doing this, is that when I distinctly remember a book I’m looking for being green, say, when I eventually find it it has faded and is no longer green…
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