I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.

Spike ,'Chosen'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Connie Neil - Sep 20, 2007 8:02:28 pm PDT #3897 of 28212
brillig

Books ruin aesthetics?

From the shows I've seen, apparently book shelves should have knick knacks and empty space and little flower arrangments--oh, and a few books might look good, but too many of one sort of thing makes a room look unbalanced. Plus you need lots of empty wall space to put up ugly art pieces.

To me, a wall is for a book case to stand against. And a book case is for books.


Scrappy - Sep 20, 2007 8:10:50 pm PDT #3898 of 28212
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

So true--although we just saw a cool show where a couple had an entirely book-filled room, and they built sliding bookcases on rails, so they could fit more in. Very cool.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 21, 2007 3:45:15 am PDT #3899 of 28212
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

In my current apartment, I've got what would ordinarily be the second bedroom (though wicked tiny if it was a roommate situation) as, for want of a better word, the Library. Books on 3 sides, with a futon on the fourth (since it does double as guest bedroom). And, yet, I have books, and lots of them, in other rooms.

I wish to own my own domicile someday, but I'm scared - too many of my books spent time in boxes piled up in corners in my prior residences, but I doubt I will be able get this much space when I buy, at least if I'm going to stay in MA.


meara - Sep 21, 2007 4:04:37 am PDT #3900 of 28212

A library is the one reason I'm contemplating spending more money on an apartment in Seattle than in DC. Even though Seattle is slightly cheaper, apartment-wise, I'm like "But for just a little more, I could have TWO bedrooms, and one could be my LIBRARY!"

I'm also very excited because in my 48 hours in Seattle, I saw not one but TWO awesome looking libraries (the main one downtown, and the Ballard one), whereas DC has the suckiest library system EVAH.


askye - Sep 21, 2007 4:16:45 am PDT #3901 of 28212
Thrive to spite them

I really like the website etsy because they have neat stuff for sale, but there is heavy book destruction there either people making journals from hardbound books, or selling just the covers, or people cutting up books for art card thingies.

I keep wanting to buy all the books that are for sale and advertised as being perfect to cut up.

The local library has a big book sale every year in the fall and this year it's been expanded into 2 days. I'm so excited -- more books for cheap!


Frankenbuddha - Sep 21, 2007 4:21:21 am PDT #3902 of 28212
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I'm like "But for just a little more, I could have TWO bedrooms, and one could be my LIBRARY!"

You have no idea what a thrill this is until you actually have one. I lived in studios for 10+ years, and now I've got more room than I know how to deal with. Buying something will probably mean scaling back space, and that scares me. Thankfully, I'm trying to be very aware of filling up what I have now, because it will be untenanble the next time I move, most likely (still hoping to find that cursed house that is going for a song - after some of the neighbors and landlords I've dealt with, ghosts would be almost calming).


Fred Pete - Sep 21, 2007 5:09:47 am PDT #3903 of 28212
Ann, that's a ferret.

Trianglistas, is Books Do Furnish a Room still in Durham?


flea - Sep 21, 2007 5:15:47 am PDT #3904 of 28212
information libertarian

It is. I've never been in, though.


Megan E. - Sep 21, 2007 5:30:15 am PDT #3905 of 28212

Jilli, don't give into the Twilight and its sequels hype! I read Twilight and really disliked how the author changed the vampire mythology. It was just...wrong.


Susan W. - Sep 21, 2007 6:39:00 am PDT #3906 of 28212
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I'm also very excited because in my 48 hours in Seattle, I saw not one but TWO awesome looking libraries (the main one downtown, and the Ballard one), whereas DC has the suckiest library system EVAH.

Well, IMHO the Seattle system spends too much money on buildings and not enough on books--the King Co. system, which covers everywhere in the county BUT Seattle, tends to have more copies of new releases, for example. (And yes, fellow Seattleites, I'm aware of how the Seattle system's funding set-up ties their hands and it's not like they can just shift construction/renovation money into collection development.) Still, it is a good library system on the whole--well-organized, friendly staff, lots of branch locations, etc.