Claire’s Corner
In this week’s Claire Corner I want to discuss my current cull of books, which you will see from above is very much a work-in-progress. Like Carrie Bradshaw and her walk-in closet of Manolo Blahniks, I like to hoard books and keep a hold of favourites and store unread ones for a rainy day … [...]
The Purple Shelf
It’s been a while since I featured a coloured bookshelf but with the acquisition of Inkdeath I finally accrued enough purple books in London to make s shelf of their own (some of these were on the pink shelf so I may recreate that at some point; I have a copy of 2666 by Roberto [...]
The Other Green Shelf
I have previously shared my bottle-green Virago shelf but I had many other lighter green books on my shelves and I brought those together to create the other green shelf.
First of all, there is NO Angela Carter book! I think this is the first shelf, other than the white one (and I do have a [...]
The Beige Shelf
The beige shelf is just for fun; I noticed that I possessed a number of beige and cream books in my collection and I thought it would be interesting to see how effective they were en masse.
Penguin seem particularly inclined to use this shade for their books, single editions as well as the inexpensive classics [...]
The Red Shelf
Do you like the red shelf? My mind isn’t entirely made up about it perhaps due to the disparity in heights and hues. I also have a larger collection of Vintage Classics and together they would make a striking colour & publisher shelf like my silver Penguin Modern Classics one.
As for patterns, I [...]
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