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Tag Archives: bookshelves
Weekend snapshots
— I got most of my hair chopped off. I love it. It looks great. — My new bookcase was delivered. I put it up in my main room – which now means that I have four bookcases in that … Continue reading
Objects
Yes, I know, I’m so easily pleased it’s frightening. A red-shaded lamp from Pier One sends me into ecstasies. An iPod sends me into some kind of manic revelatory experience. So let’s add another OBJECT to that list: This year … Continue reading
Arranging Your Books
A wonderful essay about the importance of how you arrange your books. Only obsessives need apply. (Thanks to Iain, for the link!!) An excerpt: It’s bad enough having huge gaps in your reading, even worse in your interests, without declaring … Continue reading
Tooo Many Books
This past weekend I acquired yet another small bookcase. This brings the grand total of bookshelves I have in my apartment up to eight. If you ever saw my apartment, you would laugh out loud at the thought. Slowly but … Continue reading
Heaven
Dan has discovered heaven on earth and it is called the H.H. Richardson Reading Room in the Thomas Crane library in good old Quincy, Mass. Look at the bottom photograph.
My Library
Occasionally, I have moments where I get this profound sense of well-being. Not often … but occasionally. They take me unawares. I’ve had a couple of these well-being moments over the last couple of extremely stressful days (when anxiety buzzes … Continue reading
Book-Shelf Spying
The first thing I do when I go into someone else’s house for the first time is peek at their book shelves. If they HAVE no book shelves or books, this is immediately obvious to me. It’s on the same … Continue reading