On the particular day that I was reading these comments, I determined that there were two stacks of books on my coffee table, four stacks under the coffee table, one stack on my sofa, two stacks on the end table next to the sofa, one stack on the chair across the room and another two under an armchair, one stack on the end table next to the armchair, one stack on top of my bar, one stack next to my bookshelf, and seven tall stacks in my foyer, pushed up against the obliterated antique radio.Īll told, I counted 98 books in my living room that were not shelved, not including the one-volume micrographically reproduced edition of the Oxford English Dictionary that sat alone in the corner of the room, next to my bar, with its domed magnifying glass on top. Move the books to where they will be read, she instructed. Why would anyone pile books in front of a perfectly good piece of furniture? Another reader wondered what the “point” of the stacks of books might be. I had obliterated my radio with these distracting books. It looks like there is a beautiful, old radio behind it just waiting to be discovered! Too bad we can’t see it.” And from someone else: “The stack of books in the entryway is a distraction. “The pile of books right when you open the front door throws me off a bit,” wrote one reader. Who’s going to get down on their hands and knees to pick out a book off the floor?” Others were concerned about the piles of books in the foyer, as if their presence in this liminal space might block one’s easeful movement into the domestic sphere. One person was convinced that I was destroying the books: “I get that some people are nuts about books (I keep my collection around 50, ‘1 in 1 out’ style), but you might as well take care of them and give them a chance at a longer life. I have moved lots of books to my office on the college campus where I work, but lots remain. Among my stuff are many books-some on shelves, some in stacks. I like to spend Sundays at flea markets and antiques malls. I like a lot of things in my field of vision. I’m a collector, and I live in an unabashedly stuff-oriented house. I was reading the comments section of the “House Tour” of my North Carolina home on the design site Apartment Therapy. “I would go completely bonkers with the books stacked everywhere,” said another. “I don’t think book towers would work for me,” wrote one reader.
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