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They're a book that's quick to close
"Vicarious Snow for Gwynne Garfinkle" sounds like a jazz improv or possibly experimental electronica. Taken earlier this evening, shortly after the snow began. Being able to stand on a front porch is an exciting experience. I am still considering how it compares to a back deck.
Beginning late in the afternoon, I unpacked and shelved all of the plays, poetry, biographies and memoirs, and assorted nonfiction—currently sorted into performing arts and literature, science and philosophy, sociopolitics and wars, and literature of place and time—that came with me from the old apartment. Further volumes are still in storage. The Judaica is its own section and will require more shelves, as will the classics. Being able to unpack all of the fiction will also require more shelves, ideally not another apartment. It all used to fit into a one-bedroom, but I cared about fewer things then.
Beginning late in the afternoon, I unpacked and shelved all of the plays, poetry, biographies and memoirs, and assorted nonfiction—currently sorted into performing arts and literature, science and philosophy, sociopolitics and wars, and literature of place and time—that came with me from the old apartment. Further volumes are still in storage. The Judaica is its own section and will require more shelves, as will the classics. Being able to unpack all of the fiction will also require more shelves, ideally not another apartment. It all used to fit into a one-bedroom, but I cared about fewer things then.
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Nine
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Important elements of winter.
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Also snow, even - and that is a great photo. <3
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I find this sentiment all too relatable . . .
You might enjoy the most recent story in Daily Science Fiction, "The Fan Who Wasn't There." It is pretty blatantly about Sapphire and Steel (the TV show central to the story is called Granite and Gold), though it is not precisely S&S fanfic.
(Fair warning: it is also, tangentially, a pandemic story.)
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Glad you can enjoy settling in, and pleasures of porches.
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I am glad you have walls -- warmth-holding, structurally stable walls.
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That sounds volatile. Maybe add some natural history for boron?
(I have two copies of your first novel, so the hardcover is shelved with the Judaica, which means at the moment it is in a box.)
I am glad you have walls -- warmth-holding, structurally stable walls.
It's so nice! We do need draft blockers for the front and back doors, though. And this afternoon I bought a toilet plunger, as I recently realized that we moved without one and was immediately filled with retrospective terror.
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You're welcome! So far it's sticking, too. I want snow for the solstice.
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Thank you! I finally got my camera out.
I'm in the midst of moving in with my fiancée, and it is a nice occasion to think about what books matter most, and how best they should placed together.
Mazel tov! I hope your libraries are compatible, once they have been introduced under a closed door.
Glad you can enjoy settling in, and pleasures of porches.
I think if we continue unpacking at our current rate, we will just have a house and not a partial maze of boxes by the new year. Thank you.
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I felt a lot better afterward. I will feel much better when everything is accessible. The vast majority of my library has been in storage for eight years.
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You understand!
Also snow, even - and that is a great photo.
Thank you!
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I had friends who built a barn for their books. I respect that.
You might enjoy the most recent story in Daily Science Fiction, "The Fan Who Wasn't There." It is pretty blatantly about Sapphire and Steel (the TV show central to the story is called Granite and Gold), though it is not precisely S&S fanfic.
"Imagine Scooby Doo if it were rewritten by J.B. Priestley, and you've more or less got the sense of it."
Those serial numbers are barely even scuffed.
(I should review the film I saw that was adapted from a play by J.B. Priestley. It was pretty weird.)
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I like snow a lot.
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(I misread part of the entry as "black deck" and wondered briefly what kind of card game you were playing.)
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Getting books out and shelved is a good feeling. I fight an ongoing running battle between books and shelf space. For some reason I find the nonfiction harder to get rid of than the fiction, even though the fiction speaks to me more. But all that knowledge!
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It still sounds lovely, assuming you did not freeze.
I am really hoping I can finally have access to all of my books again.
(I misread part of the entry as "black deck" and wondered briefly what kind of card game you were playing.)
All right, which one of us is writing that story?
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Thank you!
Getting books out and shelved is a good feeling.
My library was not intended to be in storage for eight years, but our last apartment was much worse for bookshelves than expected and we were there for longer than planned.
I fight an ongoing running battle between books and shelf space. For some reason I find the nonfiction harder to get rid of than the fiction, even though the fiction speaks to me more. But all that knowledge!
I have not yet gotten to unpacking the fiction! It will be interesting to see how I feel about all of it. I traditionally hang on to books on general principle of never knowing what I will need.
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Ack, I missed this comment, sorry! Either, both?
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Official request!