A non-kinky post today. I want to tell you all about my lovely new shelves….
Now most people would not find shelves terribly exciting. But I do. Because He Who Must Be Obeyed and I have a massive book collection, probably over a thousand of the things. Before last week, we had floor-to-ceiling shelves on one side of our living room, which was bursting at the seams with books – all the shelved had double rows and books were stuffed in every available space. Now, after much nagging from me, HWMBO has finally thrown away his embarrassing 1970’s cocktail cabinet, poured all his strange-coloured bottles of alcohol bought from obscure destinations and which have slowly petrified, untouched, for the last decade, sorted out the computer and Lo! We now have floor-to-ceiling shelves on the other side of the room as well!
I can’t tell you how excited I am about this. Even more than my forthcoming birthday weekend!
We moved the history, sexuality and gender studies section over there and will spread out the fiction next week. I am a geek and also suffer from being rather anal, so naturally, my library is split into:
a) Fiction, naturally filed in alphabetical order.
b) Non-fiction, filed roughly according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (without the spine tags)
It’s great. There is nothing more soothing than re-arranging books.
It also led to some interesting conversations. Take the biography of the Marquis De Sade. History, Sexuality or biography section? Should erotic fiction go in general fiction or stay in the sex section for easy accessibility? Do I put books on Victorian servants into the Victorian home section or the Victorian sex section? (NB: home section won!).
I can honestly say that if it was a choice between the playroom being full of desks and spanking benches or more shelves, I might pick the shelves. Now that really is kinky!!
Talk about envy – this has made me green with envy! Green I tell you, green!!
Jessica, I recently had the pleasure of some new bookcases, it’s a great feeling.
Warm hugs,
Paul.
Darling, I thought you said this was a non-kinky post, and yet you talk of nothing but the porn & crack of my life: books, libraries, and the cataloging of books!
Last week I got to visit the Morgan Library (no relation!) here in Gotham. I was beside myself and confessed (to my companion, an older lady from church) that the rooms (library & study) were like porn to me. I’m not sure if she looked at me askance or not.
I haven’t had the pleasure of new shelves in a decade, but last summer I perved out creating an electronic catalog of 85% of my books. So now when I forget where I’ve shelved something, I can run a search. pant-pant-pant
I live in hope that I may one day glimpse this library of yours in person!
As a librarian I love this post and the fact that you’ve arranged your non-fiction around the Dewey Decimal Classification. So much potential in the library particularly mis-shelved items. I love walking into new libraries and taking in the ambience of the space.
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One of the slides on this shows a really cool book case…
I agree with Casey, this post is hugely erotic.