While some bookshelves positively shine in
the sheer beauty of their organisation, my collection looks more like a book
monster walked in circles around the house, vomiting up piles of random books
over various tables and shelves. Series are separated; there is non-fiction
nestled in between high fantasies and adult thrillers. Old yearbooks sit within
easy reach of middle grade horrors and bubbly teenage romance.
The following are three of the six
bookplaces I have in my home. (Calling them 'bookshelves' would imply that all
my books were actually on shelves.) Some day I dream of having well-organized
bookshelves that are separated by genre, but until that day comes, bookplaces
it is!
My favorite shelf was actually built for books,
go figure. I cover the top with toys because I'm an adult, damn it! Toy
highlights include my Dark Alice figurine from the video game Alice: Madness
Returns, Groot, the Queen from Alien, a Link Pez dispenser, and a few D&D
figurines. There's also a wine bottle that I decorated in the theme of The
Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides (one of my favourites.)
On the actual shelf, there is my old Goosebumps
collection (the only series besides Harry Potter that is stored all in
one place,) an array of YA novels, a random Arnold Schwarzenegger workout book
from the seventies called Arnold's Bodyshaping for Women (a gag gift
from a friend) and some yearbooks from both middle and high school.
Then comes the glorious line/pile that
covers most of an entryway table. Here we can see the bad ass graphic novel Ghost
World, The DUFF, a random book from the Dark Tower series, Stephen
King's On Writing, The Diviners, a new Fear Street novel, and
some Darwin book about the expression of emotion in man and animals. Plus a
novel on surviving the first year of motherhood! (There also appears to be some
randomly stowed nail polish and a candlestick in there...so that's where
those went.)
Last but not least, we have a portion of a
different shelf, this one with yet another very strange array. Horror classics
like The Exorcist, Pet Sematary, It, and The Silence of the Lambs can
be seen, as well as a Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul trilogy and
newer copy of Little Women. (There's another pile in my house where I
have a much older copy that was handed down by my great grandmother. I loved
that book when I was little!)
Other bookplaces in my house include: in my
closet, on my nightstand, piled on my work desk, and lined up in a structure
that is supposed to be for plants.
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