Besides reading Ulysses during the last two weeks and spending as much time as possible with my daughter I finally convinced my husband to build a new small bookshelf….as a birthday gift!
Of course I built
it nearly on my own, because when it comes to do such kind of things husbands are normally like this:
We had some old wooden boards in our garage which a carpenter around the corner cut according to my measurements (for just 5 Euro!). Then I screwed all single boards together, carefully painted them and after some hours...tadaa: my incredibly cheap and very useful birthday gift was ready!
Finally I was able to store my thrillers and all English authors. Although I normally don't keep thrillers and pass them immediately to my friends after reading, I keep some good ones I surely will reread after some years (after having forgotten who the murderer was!!!).
Some months ago I experienced a sort of “book
crisis” as I looked at my hopelessly overcrowded bookshelves! I took a very very deep breath and strictly sorted out many books I would never ever read again and/or didn't feel the urge to keep (with the basic motivation, that this would make place for new ones!!!).
Then I gave it some thought to find a new system which would fulfill my personal "literary needs" and rearranged my books according to these categories:
Then I gave it some thought to find a new system which would fulfill my personal "literary needs" and rearranged my books according to these categories:
German,
French, Italian, Spanish, Jewish, Greek and all further international authors, Art and Art History, History and
Culture, Biographies, Travel books.
All new and loaned books I intend to read in the future found their place in an extra bookshelf in our bedroom.This way I can decide after having read them if a book will pass on to my friends, go to my studio for crafts or get a place in my bookshelves in the livingroom.
All new and loaned books I intend to read in the future found their place in an extra bookshelf in our bedroom.This way I can decide after having read them if a book will pass on to my friends, go to my studio for crafts or get a place in my bookshelves in the livingroom.
It was a relief... with only one tiny restriction:
There was no space left for my thrillers
and all English and American literature. So I stored these books in our basement and although it is plenty of space down there I didn't like
this solution at all:
I definitely need to have all my books around me! They belong to my livingroom! An additional bookshelve was therefore unavoidable, don't you agree?
Of course I still had to leave some books in our basement. I decided this would definitely be all our dictionaries and cookbooks: dictionaries are nowadays widely replaced by the internet and most of my cookbooks are dispensable because I have the luxury to have a cooking addict husband at my disposal who doesn't need them very often...(if he absolutely will need a cookbook I will do him of course the big favour to get it from the basement). :-)
You might say now, what was this all about: a silly bookshelf?!
Yep, I am a incorrigible book addict, what else?!
Of course I still had to leave some books in our basement. I decided this would definitely be all our dictionaries and cookbooks: dictionaries are nowadays widely replaced by the internet and most of my cookbooks are dispensable because I have the luxury to have a cooking addict husband at my disposal who doesn't need them very often...(if he absolutely will need a cookbook I will do him of course the big favour to get it from the basement). :-)
You might say now, what was this all about: a silly bookshelf?!
Yep, I am a incorrigible book addict, what else?!
