"We're gonna need a bigger boat."
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 5:11PM We are book people, make no mistake. We buy, we borrow, we read and re-read. We lend sometimes, we cull when we must. We have enough books that when I unpacked them last five years ago, I used them as a design element in the living room and arranged them in blocks of color, based on the dominant color on their covers/spines. I managed to make it so the color blocks complemented each other horizontally and vertically.
Yes, I had a job at the time. So did Nehemiah Wallington, and he managed to pray eleven times a day. Just sayin’.
So I’m packing them up with similar intentions, and have boxes labeled with tags like “Penguin Orange Books - Living Room”. Once you tape up five or six boxes and assign a color to each, the work goes pretty quickly. Only… I’m packing boxes 17-22 now, and I’m maaaaaybe halfway done. With the main collection, not the smaller subject/genre collections- homemaking, parenting/child development and education, travel, and porn (What?). Or Seamus’ books.
We’re also in the maket for new bookshelves. Think we can get a bulk discount?
When English majors attack in Change, Moving, ephemera
Reader Comments (2)
Oh, I know what you mean--I gave 1500 paperback books to the library
last year and still have about 5-600 more in crates and boxes. Avid readers
should have a free pack, move and storage agency! Hang in there!
I always knew it was genetic on Patrick's side, I didn't know how severe it could be. That's most impressive, Marty!
All of the books in the living room are packed, which leaves whatever is lurking in our bedroom and Seamus' room. We're at 41 boxes now, I'm guessing we top out at 60.