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

[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*