"you might pick them up to look at once in a while"

[slemslempike]

I suppose it serves me right for reading "top tips" on home decoration, but really.

Books
A room lined in books can be a delight. Stick to hardbacks, or neat vintage paperback collections. Your selection should reflect your passions, so much so that you might pick them up to look at once in a while. Books arranged according to spine colour look close to obsessive - instead stack them horizontally in diminishing sizes, especially on a large square coffee table.

I hate whoever wrote this. "you might pick them up to look at once in a while". Imagine!

I am going to see The Audience tonight, I mustn't forget to go. I keep thinking it's Wednesday, which it isn't. (It's Thursday.) I am looking forward to it, but a bit worried that you might need to know more twentieth century British history than I do to really understand everything. (I say that like I have more knowledge of other periods. I don't.)

Comments

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Oh, vomit. Still not as bad as some of the home decorating videos you can see on youtube where people actually _cut the spines off of books with a Stanley knife_ and then glue them onto the sides of boxes so you can have storage that looks like books. Instead of, you know, using that space for books instead of boxes of tat camouflaged as books which are now dead.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

UGH. I am less hardline about reusing books (well, SOME books, especially those falling apart) for art or other endeavours, but that just sounds horrid.