Kim and I recently agreed that our "We should paint first" excuse not to unpack our many boxes of books had ceased to be viable. For various reasons, painting didn't happen this summer, and we don't foresee it in the immediate future. So at long last, we finally buckled down today (Eek! Yesterday, now!) and got everything unpacked and sorted.[1]
It feels really good to have a wall of our books to look at rather than a wall of empty shelves with various junk scattered around them. Honestly, it's done wonders for making the living room feel welcoming. And of course there's the obvious benefit: we can finally reach all of our books when we want them!
[1] We decided at the last minute to go ahead and shelve all of our fiction together, rather than splitting out the sci-fi/fantasy as we have in the past. As for non-fiction, we beat our heads against it for a while and eventually settled on some reasonable categories. But we were awfully close at one point to calling
ukelele and asking for advice on the Dewey Decimal System.
It feels really good to have a wall of our books to look at rather than a wall of empty shelves with various junk scattered around them. Honestly, it's done wonders for making the living room feel welcoming. And of course there's the obvious benefit: we can finally reach all of our books when we want them!
[1] We decided at the last minute to go ahead and shelve all of our fiction together, rather than splitting out the sci-fi/fantasy as we have in the past. As for non-fiction, we beat our heads against it for a while and eventually settled on some reasonable categories. But we were awfully close at one point to calling
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