Bookshelf pr0n...

[byslantedlight]

I'm falling into bad habits and not posting again, and I told myself I'd do better! I'll see if I can find some more Pros-y snippets to post from the viewing notes - and I swear I'll try to write some more - but for now, a follow-up post to the post I made the other day. This is what I effectively designed the furnishing of my new place around... Bookshelves. *g*

Not just one, but three bookcases within reach of my bed... *g*...and an empty shelf left to fill! *g*

My main non-fiction bookshelves. I do love my encyclopaedias... You don't have to worry about what google thinks you want to know, you can just look up an article... they're kind of like dictionaries that way... but more! *g*the second bookcase is mostly hitory books... actually the top shelf is still unsorted. Actually there are photo albums under the encyclopaedias, but I reckon they count as books. *g*

And finally, more non-fiction on these tall white bookcases. The one on the left is travel and poetry and music and astronomy and practical things - a bit of a mish-mash. The one next to me I love - it's my writing bookcase, with all the books that are useful (or going to be useful) for various bits and bobs that I'm writing or meaning to write, and a row of folders with things in that I am writing... oh okay, you can't see that one, it's low down so I can just turn to it and grab them. *g* Actually there are shelves on the other side of me at my desk too, but they're all work stuff - oh, and some family history books. Ha - and some old writing on the very top, waiting for me to brave it. Really old writing... *g* In front of my desk are two low bookcases that were donated by the former tenant - of course I couldn't let her throw them away! The one on the left is my To Be Read bookcase (including library and bookgroup books top left) and the other has some of my favourite books that I unpacked first and just happened to land on that shelf. Patrick O'Brian down the bottom, in a lovely long swoosh of shelf... *g*

I'm still prettifying (clearly!) but I do love my bookshelves... *g*

Comments

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

I do believe you have more books than our little school library! :D

It looks very nice and I adore your bed spread!
And the LoS poster from your previous post.
Have you had a chance to watch any of the Pros episodes in all their restored glory, yet?

And hey, you bought a little greenhouse!
Mr. Siskiou brought one home in a box last week, and we hope to set it up this weekend.
How is your new home working out?
It looks so nice and cozy.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee! Not as many as I did have before I went to Australia, I gave loads to the charity shop too - and hated doing it!

I haven't actually got a blu-ray player, so I've not watched a single restored-ep from S2 - but I did get out my S2 restored dvds the other day, and randomly watched Stirring of Dust... I'll have to save my pennies again, I reckon... *g*

I did buy a wee greenhouse thingie! It stared at me from a shelf, reasonably cheaply, and I'd been thinking that some kind of shelves of plants could make all the fencing I look out at greener and more alive, so I thought I'd give it a go. And now of course we have wind and rain, so it's not up yet - I'd have to tie it to the fence I reckon! *g*

So far so good with New Home, though there are a few niggly things (life is just niggly though, isn't it... *g*) It'd be nice to have a phone - my mobile signal isn't great here, so actually I'm a bit thrown back to pre-phone days altogether - I couldn't call for help if I needed it, I'd have to crawl across the gravel and around the corner and knock on a door and hope someone was in! But it's so very nice to see parts of my life all together at last, starting to make up one life... if that makes sense! *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Strangely, we now also have rain, and the little greenhouse will have to wait.

We also have to go pick up some free firewood this weekend, which will take a while. We don't have a truck, so it's just our two little hatchback cars. Which will mean several trips.

That's annoying, with your cell connection! Would another provider work better in your area, or is it just generally a wasteland for mobile phones there?
Is there no landline in your annexe, either?

Are the restored Pros dvds the network ones? No, they can't be, because they haven't come out with the dvds for series 2 yet, right?
We also don't have a blu ray player, yet...

[owned-by-a-cat.livejournal.com]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a girl can never have too many bookshelves... nice one!

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

If this was Facebook I would 'like' this comment. :-D

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

Too true!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Love it! And such a truth... *g*

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised you love your bookshelves... they're WONDERFUL! I love them to bits and want to crawl inside ypur photos and browse and sit on the floor reading and investigating and and... *G* You must be so pleased.

I think I must've missed posts from you last week... half-term and grandkids here, followed by a rotten cold which I'm still trying to shake off. When I've got a moment I'll go back and check. Hope all is well with you though and that you're happy in your new location... both the house and the area... and that you're glad you made the move.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's so nice to have bookshelves! Oh, and I love the idea of being able to crawl through photos to other people's houses and browse and sit on the floor reading, that's just wonderful!

Oh no that you have a cold again! Are you taking your zinc with your Vit. C?! Or maybe it's your gorgeous grandkids who need to... *g* Feel better soon though, and no worries about keeping up with posts - I'm a bit lost with it all myself these days, all these different venues to get behind on... *g*

And I am glad I made the move here! I do miss things from Cambs. - even just my view across to the fields, and remembering how they'd been so covered in wildflowers last summer - but it's nice to have my own place, and books, and bookshelves... *vbg*

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

I am in total awe of your bookshelves - mine are a higgledy piggledy mess with books encroaching into other spaces as well - I love the order of your shelves.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee! One of my favourite things is ordering my bookshelves - they're alphabetical for fiction... *g* But I hate that some books are too tall to fit the shelves, and I can't make the shelf just a bit taller even though other shelves are slightly too tall... so it'll feel a bit tatty to me until I can work that out... *g* I have books encroaching into other spaces too, though every now and then I try to put them away... but books are meant to encroach - they're more fun that way! *g*

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Being surrounded by bookshelves is good for the soul I reckon!

Not sure if it's still true but at one time my SIL used to refuse to have any bookshelves in her house at all because she thought it made the place look boring and unhomely. It was a small house, true, and it wasn't as if she didn't ever read books herself, but she just didn't find them an attractive thing to have around. She thinks (and we get on fine!) that all ours just take up space and gather dust :D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Being surrounded by bookshelves is good for the soul I reckon!
Yes! Definitely good for my soul, anyway - I don't really feel right until I can see a bookshelf somewhere... my favourite pubs and restaurants are the ones with bookshelves in, even when they're just for show... *g*

Oh, and eep and eep and thrice eep about your SIL! I'm sure she's lovely in many ways, but... there's just something not right about her! Books make every place look more homely - how can that not be true?!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Isn't it fun to spend a day with your books? I love sorting and resorting, changing what goes where (does astronomy go next to archaeology or anthropology? And where does gardening fit into all of this?) And I envy you a "to be read" bookcase. Mine are piled on my night stand and dresser.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - it really is! *g* Astronomy goes in front of other generally-science-y books. *g* Anthropology goes before history. Gardening has a completely separate shelf with cookbooks. *vbg*

I didn't really realise I had a to-read bookshelf until I realised that I had so many books to-read that if I moved all the books from there into my actual bookshelves, then the space would even out... *g* Now I've just got to read them instead of buying more. As well as buying more. *g*

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nice bookcases! We are currently rearranging our books also, and it's a hard slog, especially trying to find the best bookcases (as we've needed more for a while) but it's lovely when they are all there on display, isn't it? :))
I approve most highly of your Patrick O'Brian collection! ;)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I definitely don't have the Right Bookshelves yet, though right now I love the ones I have because I have them. But they're not quite the right height for some of the books (or some of the books aren't the right height for bookshelves - I do wish publishers wouldn't do that!), and the middle shelf means you can't adjust quite enough to get it right... and all those niggling things! But - bookshelves!

Periodically I have to stop myself picking up Master and Commander because I know that as soon as I do that'll be it until the very last book again... *sighs for them*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Brobdingnagian Bookcases, Batman!!!!

Wow, I know I knew you had a fine collection of tomes but this is even more wonderful than I had imagined. And so organised! ::avoids looking at chaos all around me::

It's, well, it's a bit perfect really. And of course I especially like the sound of that writing section ... *bg*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee! And I still don't feel as if I have nearly as many as that. My rooms should be lined with bookcases... or I should have at least one room that entirely is. Basically I would like to live in a house with a room that is entirely dedicated to books... *sighs dreamily* Maybe one day - I've made a start! *g*

I like my writing section too - although this morning I also find myself lusting over something called Scrivener, which is supposed to be good for organising writing on your laptop etc. I've never liked the idea of fancy writing software before, because I like Word, which is a bit like paper, but now I have so many snatches of notes for things everywhere, and not enough space to lay them all out on a table, and maybe Scrivener wouldn't be such a bad idea... and once you get that far, it's a slippery slope... *g*

[gvenanne.livejournal.com]

and the other has some of my favourite books
Here I looked to the right and found four books on my shelf: a yellow one, a light blue one, a vinous one and a deeper blue one. And then I looked back to the photographs and found them there on the middle shelf to the left. Made me feel happy and grin very wide))

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, that makes me happy too! Book-synchronicity! *vbg*

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

Looks like heaven to me^_~

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's feeling pretty heavenly - although true heavenly would be a whole extra room that was a library... *vbg* One day!

[ailcia.livejournal.com]

I just so love your lovely new place, and think you are prettifying it admirably!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay! I'm rather fond of my lovely new place right now too! It's oddly not what I would choose for prettyfication if someone gave me a book of sample rooms and said pick one, but it grew like this, so it must be right... *vbg* And I'm going to hope that one day you have time to do some more of your fab picture posts too... *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh! Lovely! Books and bookshelves... it's terribly rude and forward of me, but I always long to rummage through other people's bookshelves, and yours call to me *g*

Are the ones next to your bed 'Billy' bookshelves, by any chance?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hello - and happy birthday, I believe! Hope you're having a fab day!

You must drop by one day and have a proper rummage - that's what bookshelves are for, you know... *vbg*

They are indeed the Billy bookshelves (so are the non-fiction ones). Not ideal, but exceedingly good for the price - which means I can buy enough... *g* The tall ones behind my desk are the new equivalents of the older, slightly smaller Billy bookcases, and don't have shelves that move height. (Although with Billy the middle shelf doesn't move either, which turns out to be limiting cos the size of some paperbacks these days means that you can only get 2 shelves in, when 3 would fit if they were just normal-paperback size. Or turn the books on their tummies, which I've done too, but I don't like it, and have to figure out a way to sort it!

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Thank you, yes, I'm exceedingly ancient today - brilliant! I get to eat lots of cake and tell dirty jokes *g*

And thank you for the info on the Billy bookcases - they look so nice, much nicer than in the Ikea catalogue/web site. I'm trying like crazy to sort out a couple of problem areas in the cottage - okay, I'm trying to get rid of things so I can squeeze more bookshelves in *g* - and I keep coming back to Billy as being about the right size and shape... and then I waver! Seeing them in your house, I think they're as close to perfect as I can hope to find. Now, I just need Ikea to hurry up and open in Exeter!