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I went and picked up two more bookcases today. I couldn’t be bothered to put them together, but I will do that tomorrow. Then I will finish placing my books (Magic for Beginners — paperback version — has shipped! I should have it tomorrow!) and figure out how to organise them. Probably broadly by theme — non-fiction, gen fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry/art, nerd — then by author. Oooh, it will be so wonderful and pretty.
I also picked up a mirror for my bathroom — finally, a nice big one instead of the dinky (but pretty! to go in my bedroom now) one I was using (which is sitting where it will hang once I get around to it, but since I also have a lot of art that is getting around to being hung . . . and, crap, a light that needs a lightbulb). AND a table for art. Made out of wood, pine I guess, but I don’t know what the equivalent term is in English. Massive wood is wrong. Anyways, very plain, but also good for what I need.
I forgot that the Boucherville Ikea is right near the border, so USians from NH and VT and NY come up there. But I think I just missed the huge influx of students.
I went with my sister, who ate 3 hot dogs.
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:59 pm
I like grouping books by general theme/genre, and sort of positioning authors near each other, but only to a point. I like a bit of artful disarray in my bookshelves. If it’s too ordered, it feels like a library, instead of a random and eclectic assortment of books (except it’s not really that eclectic, I’m sure).
August 24th, 2006 at 1:27 am
It sounds great! My books are grouped by theme, and then kind of by size. And I do keep authors together, or I’d never find them again…
August 24th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
I’m really not worried that my books — or my anythings — will be “too ordered”. But I need to have a plan to start off with.
I might need to do something about by size, cause I hate having huge hardcovers next to paperbacks.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Well, naturally. It can even be problematic to have too much mingling of the trade paperback with the mass market paperbacks.
August 24th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Trade and mass-market are pretty much ok together, and in any case, few genres mix them — fiction general is mostly trade, everything else is mostly mass-market. I’m sure I’ll keep comics and geeky stuff separate, I’m undecided on the other stuff, still. And today I picked up three garbage bags full of free books. Good I have all those shelves.
August 24th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Three garbage bags of books? That’s rather vague as a size, but I’m imagining something pretty massive. Nice!
The one genre that crosses back and forth between mass market and trade is classic literature. You’ve got the old Penguin Classics style mass markets vs. the fancier newer trade releases.
August 24th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Three hot dogs!
August 24th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
True, Sheepish. Also I have lots of hardcover Jeanette Winterson, which are massmarket pb sized. I never buy classics in trade paperback, I don’t think.
I know. But they’re 50 cents each, the hot dogs. And she’s 13.