bookshelves

Clark Stooksbury finds it curious that aprogressive would reject the work of a man who shares many of their values just because he shows reverence for tradition:

I briefly got started childproofing a few weeks ago.

So, I was just about to tell you about my dreams for built-in bookshelves and how I had been reading over at Dooce’s and saw a room that had just the kinds of shelves I want only to realize it’s a picture of a bookstore and I go over to Dooce to link to it and…

My wife has a fairly respectable library of novels, reference books, textbooks and literary compilations on the two bookshelves in our office. The only books that I have on my bookshelf are about Web design and programming. That is the section I typically make a bee-line for the moment we walk into a bookstore. As [...]

Obviously, from looking at my last post, the Bug awoke within seconds of hitting publish.

In the first story, many folks in and around Nashville have done exactly what the author is talking about, but the difficulty is not so much in finding the materials and constructing the houses.

I was working in downtown Atlanta today and decided to visit IKEA. I've heard a lot about the place and the grassroots efforts to have a IKEA located in Nashville. I've put together some bookshelves before and even have a catalog that my son mailed from Seattle.

Since PB from One Fan's Perspective called me out, here's my stab at the 123 Book Meme that's running around like the Flu these days. From PB:

The meme is quite simple:

* Grab the nearest book 123 pages or more (PB: easy for me to do considering my day job) [Forechecker: me too, I work in the book biz]