What’s your pick?
- a bathroom scale (for weighing yourself)
- a tape measure (for measuring yourself)
- both – knowledge is power!
- neither – such data is irrelevant (or, if pedantic, such data are irrelevant).
How To Live In Your Favourite Book
Not, I hasten to add, in a cheesy cheap merchandise kind of way, but in a altogether richer, more creative and satisfying way.
“We don’t just read a great book, we inhabit it.” So begins Novel Interiors: Living in Enchanted Rooms Inspired By Literature, by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti. She identifies six sorts of literary decor:
cottage cosy (Austen, Dickens, Alcott…),
classic elegance (Thackeray, Waugh, Wharton…),
earthy & natural (Brontë, L. M. Montgomery, Thoreau…),
modern glamour (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Maugham…),
bohemian chaos (Durrells, Mansfield, Woolf…)
and fantasticated (Colette, Proust, Wilde…).
But what if your style doesn’t fall neatly into one of those mentioned – or any of them at all? Fear not: there is a way.
Decor = Bookshelves
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“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
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