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July 12, 2006
Can a person be eaten by books?
The last few times we moved, the first thing I unpacked was our books. I absolutely love seeing our bookcase go from stacks and stacks of books that look like they're taking over our lives to relatively tamed rows of book spines. I always feel like a magician.
But not this time.
We've been living in our current apartment for two weeks today, and I'm just now tackling our bookshelf. That's because the entire time we were in Oberlin, we didn't buy a single thing without getting rid of whatever we were replacing, like our pots and pans or our silverware. Except books. Lots and lots of books.
I don't know how it happened. I know I brought a few books back from my parents' house over winter break. I know that we bought a couple books at RRC during our November visit. I think we bought a few novels throughout the year. Somehow, there are more than just a few new books, though. There are enough that I'm totally lost as to how to make them fit on our bookshelf. I've already had to dispense with my old plan for the order they go on the shelves (cookbooks -> domestic related books -> Jewish books -> books about other spiritual practices -> self-help books -> women-empowerment related books -> women's autobiographies -> gender studies books -> other textbooks about women -> psych textbooks -> random textbooks -> reference books -> communication textbooks -> student affairs textbooks -> floofy "change the world" books -> decorating and crafts books [not the best transition, I admit, but it always started a new shelf] -> literature). Now, I'm planless.
And this overflow is not even counting my BSC books, which are on a different shelf altogether!
We need bookends. And another bookcase. And more space.
Maybe a normal person would say "we need fewer books." Hmm.
No way.
Posted to Books at July 12, 2006 12:25 PM
Comments
You definitely need more bookcases, not fewer books! IKEA is your friend. :)
Posted by: Leah at July 12, 2006 12:43 PM
no. No NO you need more bookshelves not less books:)
Posted by: devin at July 12, 2006 02:43 PM