Books In Their Natural Environment, Part Three
Posted 12 February 2010 in Random Photographs by Catriona
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Share your thoughts [9]
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Matthew Smith wrote at Feb 12, 03:29 am
You are an inspiration. I am going to make it a weekend project to lovingly tend to my bookshelves.
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Leigh wrote at Feb 12, 05:39 am
I agree with Matthew, these photos make me want to stack in a far more organised and elegant way … if only I had the time.
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Leigh wrote at Feb 12, 05:41 am
Oooh I forgot to mention I have a friend who is an interior designer. She sorts her books by the colour of their spine. Terrible for when you actually need to find a book but it does look tres chic.
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Tim wrote at Feb 12, 06:38 am
The tiny bodybag on the tiny bed is quite creepy. Lovely pics otherwise!
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Catriona wrote at Feb 12, 06:44 am
My books aren’t stacked in an organised way at all, though. It’s just a trick of the photographs—and not even then, really. Not if you look closely.
Yes, the Charlaine Harris happen to be together, but that’s really only because I bought them all (almost) at once, so I had to find a single space for them. Even then it’s only the Sookie Stackhouse books: the Lily Bard Mysteries and the Harper Connelly series are in another room, whereas if I were organised, they’d all be together.
There really is no organising principle behind most of my shelving—if there were, then I wouldn’t keep losing my copy of Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf.
I do stay away from anything that turns my books into interior design, though. It does look pretty, but it’s not practical, and I think it’s bad for my books’ self-esteem.
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Catriona wrote at Feb 12, 06:46 am
It’s an alien corpse, Tim. Does that make it less creepy or more creepy?
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Nick wrote at Feb 12, 08:34 am
Would placing next to it the miniature Agent Scully figurine that it came with also increase or decrease the creepy-factor? Hmm. Don’t answer that.
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Catriona wrote at Feb 12, 09:10 am
I did consider that, actually. But there’s a previous “Books in their Natural Environment” post with the Scully figurine, so I left her out this time.
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Tim wrote at Feb 14, 02:12 am
In my opinion, the fact that it’s an alien doesn’t make it less creepy, though having it next to Agent Scully would.