![]() ![]() For some reason I seem to regularly buy doubles of David Kynaston’s marvellous modern social history series Tales of a New Jerusalam. It’s not even my own children’s scrawl which would at least make it ‘charming’. A Beatrix Potter, kept because it’s a first edition, has got so much crayon scrawl on it that it’s worth nothing. Some people may disagree with this approach. Midnight’s Children is only kept together by several thick rubber bands, Wind in the Willows and Collected Short Stories by Somerset Maugham have lost their covers, Animal Farm’s glue has entirely packed up. I think this is fair enough as they’re basically unreadable. Books that are so damaged they’re basically unreadable. ![]() This doesn’t mean I think they’re bad books, just that they’re so far down the ‘to be read’ list that I’m pretty sure I’ll never get round to them. I’m looking, for example, at you Bring me Sunshine by Charlie Connelly. Books I bought cheaply that I didn’t really want in the first place but were more of a donation to the church/school/etc fair. Just to clarify, Sarah, all your books have survived the purification. The bad news is that there are so few books that fall into this category that it doesn’t make much of a dent in the problem. A big wrench this one and I don’t want to go into detail for obvious reasons, but although I hugely appreciate people giving me their book and writing something personal and jolly in it just for me, if it’s not my cup of tea and I didn’t even ask for it in the first place then, after a suitably reverent interval, it’s going, going, gone. So while I'm a huge fan of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon books, his other stuff, not so much, so cheerio. There’s also a subset, books by authors I really like which I only bought on the strength of their name. Quite a lot of Ian McEwan has gone, as have various Haruki Murakami titles. Some are ‘classics’ so I feel obliged to keep them so visitors don’t think I’m an ignoramus, but there are actually a decent number that I’ll certainly never read again as I didn’t like them much/at all first time round. There are a remarkable number of these on my shelves. So to make this current purge easier to achieve, I came up with some categories of books that can go: If I haven’t read a book, well, it’s not going anywhere until I’ve at the very least got to page 30. If I’ve read a book, I look on it for better or worse as a little accomplishment and it’s physical presence on my shelves is a proud reminder to me (and in my more narcissistic humble-brag moments to anybody else having a crafty glance along them) of a job well done. All of which means that it’s time, as it is roughly once a decade, to have a clearout.Ĭhoosing what to wave an actual goodbye to rather than make a more non-committal au revoir is of course quite tricky (I’d strongly recommend I Murdered My Library, a Kindle Single available on Amazon by Linda Grant on this very subject). On top of which, my children want to turn the basement – which is essentially a home library at the moment – into some kind of chillout zone. We also have cardboard boxes and boxes of them in the attic and slightly hidden around the house (many of these are children’s books which I’m hoping any grandchildren who turn up in the next few years will enjoy). I refuse to doublebank them (my parents have no such issues, madness I say, madness) and I’m not a great fan of slipping books horizontally on top of their vertically-shelved brethren. The downside of liking books, writing books, and working in the book industry is that I’m surrounded by them wherever I go in the house.Īs first world problems go, this is right up there with being unable to source low salt Marmite at Waitrose, but still it is a constant struggle to find room for new arrivals on bookshelves. Mesh mounted will not get bend like plywood backing.The upside of liking books, writing books, and working in the book industry is that I’m surrounded by them wherever I go in the house.High quality recycled material, environment friendly.Wide-use for interior design of background, wall decor.Each one is unique manual made, not by machines.Natural old boat wood shows the beauty of concise style.All holes, marks are also randomly showing up on the tile. Some of designs may have nail holes and other natural weathering marks on the finish. Every sheet of the tile is unique because all the materials are natural and all chips are assembled randomly. Designed with different colors and shapes, they will match different themes projects.These wooden tiles become more and more popular because its wide use in interior design, especially for hotels and creative studios. They have the classic beauty with free spirited attitude. The wooden wall tiles/panels are made of natural old boat wood which delivers a strong feeling of antique.
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