My bookshelf has been a
mess for some time with more books than I can read anytime soon, everyone dumping
all sorts of things on it and the whole thing looking cluttered. With encouragement coming from the unlikely
source of Harlequin Sister wielding Instagram snaps of aesthetically pleasing book-shelves, I decided to give in to my inner organiser and give it a tidy.
The first step as to be
brutal about getting rid of those books that I would never read again, or that
didn’t really appeal to me. These are some
of my university textbooks and I have held on for sentimental reasons and
because perhaps I thought they might come in handy if I ever did my
Masters. 20 years later, they are pretty
out of date. In the end I filled about a dozen bags of books to get rid
of. I am wondering if they are any good
to anyone, otherwise I will take them a few at a time to the charity shop.
I have always grouped
my books by genre and theme. Non-fiction by parenting, self-help, biographies for
example and fiction by classics, horror, Young Adult for instance. It just makes sense to me. After looking at the mess/dumping ground my
beloved bookshelf has become over the last few months, sense went out of the
window and I did the easiest and most pleasing thing to the eye. Ordered everything by colour. It goes completely against the grain, but I
love how it looks:
I am enjoying my book
shelf at the moment, it makes me smile every time I go past. Now I have to make sure no one tries dumping
their junk on it.
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