So far the past year or so, I’ve been busting out of shelf space on my bookshelves. Books piled here, there, every where. Shipping supplies for contests. Research books. Pictures of my rotten. My desk runneth over.
It was getting ridiculous. Then my wunnerful husband went to a casino Friday night, won some dough…and guess what he bought me?
Bookshelves. Three pretty, pretty bookshelves. Two of them are the tall, almost to ceiling kind, the other is shorter and then he mounted three free standing shelves over that for my fairies and dragons and pictures.
I have room. :-O Not sure how to handle having room in my office…
Look... you can see the floor!
*G* I’m so very happy with my new bookshelves…I can actually FIND all my books, again.
August 21, 2008 at 12:43 am
The husband is indeed wunnerful. You should definitely keep him.
And I envy you your office… Well, okay, it’s the books
August 21, 2008 at 12:56 am
It’s he wonderful? It’s funny how some bits of timber can get an author so excited. They look great and now you’ve go room to move you can sit in your chair and not move. LOL You do need to get some more books out there. LOL
RC (who is green with envy)
August 21, 2008 at 2:29 am
*G* What you all CAN’T see is the fact that several of the shelves are double-stacked, a row in the back and a row in front.
But there’s at least some sense to the shelving now. One is my research and non-fiction stuff…like oh…
The Idiot’s Guide to the Book of Revelations
The Idiot’s Guide to Writing Romance
The Idiot’s Guide to World History
Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault
History, Myths and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee
and of course…
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Then there’s my ‘keeper’ shelf that has all my Howard/Roberts/Viehl/Leigh books and books by other writers that I know I’ll want to keep, plus some of my fave books from when I was a kid, including
Bunnicula
Where the Red Fern Grows
And then an entire bookcase of books I haven’t.
Then there are my author copies.
*G* Yep, some pieces of lumber made the author very happy. He said something about building them himself and making them look ‘built in’ but that would have taken more time and patience, and this was easier on him. Easier on him, quicker for me. We’re good.
August 21, 2008 at 1:15 pm
::green with envy here as well:::
Can I borrow him/the winnings? I need more bookcases as well…….ok I really need a new room for everything, but would settle for the bookcases, I’ll find SOMEPLACE to put them.
November 12, 2008 at 3:19 pm
[...] And I always need more to tide me over. Never mind that I’ve got an entire bookcase for my TBR books. It’s no longer a pile. It’s a case. (Smoochies to the DH-the bookcases were a pressie from him.) [...]