So it apparently pays to call UPS ahead of time and request actual delivery. Who knew? In any case, I got the bookshelves (yay!) and they even went together quickly;
"it's all in the tools," so says my stepfather. Okay, so, I'm still one shelf short (six boxes unpacked). But getting one more shelf is no big deal.
And as for my mortal sin of ordering from Wal*Mart ... well, there is real pleasure in placing
Notes of a Dirty Old Man,
Candy, and
Ten Days that Shook the World (among many others, naturally) on those shelves. Perhaps purgatory. So, how do I order my books? It's complicated, made more so because these new ladder shelves are different depths, creating all sorts of issues about fit. My usual "only her hairdresser knows for sure" order was disrupted by this and it took me a bit longer to figure a way to work with it. It's not perfect, and there's a lot of rearranging in my future, but I think I can live with it for now. Honestly, I'm not a big "order" person for a lot of my titles.
There are specific authors that get special attention,
Charles Bukowski,
Leonard Cohen,
Brautigan,
Kurt Vonnegut,
John Fante, and all the playwrights, the Russian history & fiction, plus a graphic novel area (
Why I Hate Saturn, bless you
Kyle Baker, wherever you are), and general nonfiction shelves. But again, many authors and categories had to be placed at various levels on a shelf. What I tried to do was at least keep them within eye distance. Like I said, there's a lot of rearranging in my future. It's a long weekend ...
And as for my mortal sin of ordering from Wal*Mart ... well, there is real pleasure in placing Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Candy, and Ten Days that Shook the World (among many others, naturally) on those shelves. Perhaps purgatory. So, how do I order my books? It's complicated, made more so because these new ladder shelves are different depths, creating all sorts of issues about fit. My usual "only her hairdresser knows for sure" order was disrupted by this and it took me a bit longer to figure a way to work with it. It's not perfect, and there's a lot of rearranging in my future, but I think I can live with it for now. Honestly, I'm not a big "order" person for a lot of my titles. 
There are specific authors that get special attention, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, John Fante, and all the playwrights, the Russian history & fiction, plus a graphic novel area (Why I Hate Saturn, bless you Kyle Baker, wherever you are), and general nonfiction shelves. But again, many authors and categories had to be placed at various levels on a shelf. What I tried to do was at least keep them within eye distance. Like I said, there's a lot of rearranging in my future. It's a long weekend ...
4 comments:
The bookshelves look sharp! And yeah, I think you get some karma back for countering the WalMart with Ten Days that Shook the World... I've completely filled up my bookshelves. I've got recent books sitting cover-side out like I'm a bookstore trying to sell titles with a high markup. Gotta re-arrange everything one of these years...
Ah, thanks for that. 10 Days ... one of my favorites. I'm hoping each book I placed was like a voodoo doll pin in Lee Scott's side.
Great bookshelves! Yes, the SprawlMart element kind of sucks, but you're at least putting great books on them. I seem to never have enough bookshelves - my apt. in Astoria is the only place that has come close to allowing me enough to room to have adequate bookshelves, and still, not everything is in its right place. However, I can sort of separate my academic/work books and scores from the others. I love organizing my bookshelves - it's the virgo in me, I guess. There's something really satisfying about creating order of varying sorts.
Thanks Meg! Living rooms in Astoria are a pain, this apartment was the first one I saw that gave me enough wall space! See you Sunday!
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