They're a book that's quick to close

[sovay]

"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.

Comments

[nineweaving]

How lovely to have snow falling and shelves to fill with beloved books!

Nine

[luzula]

Oh, book-shelving! That sounds lovely.

[thisbluespirit]

Books!! \o/

Also snow, even - and that is a great photo. <3

[swan_tower]

Being able to unpack all of the fiction will also require more shelves, ideally not another apartment.

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.)

[oracne]

SNOW.

[dramaticirony]

Nice photo. 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.

Glad you can enjoy settling in, and pleasures of porches.

[gwynnega]

Thank you! It is lovely.

[selkie]

We should really shelf our books properly -- they're unboxed but were just put onto the downstairs bookshelves with no real thought besides "get the meaningful ones above flood range. Consequently, two of your early books are next to The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania on the highest shelf and not much else is with them...

I am glad you have walls -- warmth-holding, structurally stable walls.

[ashlyme]

It's good to hear that you're shelving books again. What a wonderful photo! We had a light dusting of snow here, gone now to frost and fog.

(I misread part of the entry as "black deck" and wondered briefly what kind of card game you were playing.)

[sholio]

What a lovely snow picture!

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!