"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

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

YOU MIGHT WANT TO PICK THEM UP TO LOOK AT ONCE IN A WHILE.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*punches everyone*

(Semi-related - I am just back from a weekend away with my colleagues, at one point one of them [jokingly] said: "Jessica! Stop reading! You are on HOLIDAY!" As if reading is not the SINGLE BEST THING ONE COULD BE DOING WITH ONE'S TIME.)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Reading is a lovely holiday in itself! I am looking forward to packing my books for next week. (This time next week I shall be in Marseille! Did the guy come back saying what I do when I get there?)

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

No - I'll try him again later in the week.