The second bookcase was much easier

[mousme]

So once I had the hang of the first bookcase, I was able to put together the next one lickety=split, without assembling any of the bits backward, to boot.

I forgot that the BILLY bookcases are a few shelves short, though, so I guess I'll have to go back to IKEA and pick up a couple of extra shelves. I still have one left over from my previous shelf-buying spree, but it's not enough. Soon, soon I will have room enough for all my books. Actually, I have some spare room right now, but I foresee it won't last long.

After this, I'll have to start expanding my library into different rooms, because I've officially run out of wall space in this room. The room feels smaller, but much cozier now. There is something very reassuring about being surrounded by books.

I am very pleased, all in all, backward bookshelf notwithstanding. Having assembled all my furniture now means that I'll have plenty of time to do other, more important things next week.

In book news, I just finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and dear God above is it depressing. Unrelentingly bleak. It makes Wuthering Heights seem cheerful. It starts bleak, and it ends bleak, and it's bleak in the middle. Bleak bleak bleak. I think I need to watch Anne of Green Gables or something, now, just to cleanse my palate. Read some Pratchett, or some P.G. Wodehouse.

Comments

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Dang.... that's bleak :x

Have you read No Country for Old Men?

I think he might just thrive on bleak :p

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I haven't, but Big!Bear brought the movie to work one weekend. That, too, was bleak, but not as bleak as The Road. I think I'll be giving the rest of his work a miss. :P

[ai731.livejournal.com]

When you start expanding bookshelves into the basement, be sure to measure carefully before buying any more Billys: the tallest ones don't actually fit in the basement - one of the problems we had when t! moved in...

[le-maistre-e.livejournal.com]

For the "Backwards" shelf, if you have white book shelves, and seeing as how you are in serious "bricolage" mode, you can actually buy iron-on (many-colours available) laminate at most home hardware stores, ie Home Depot, Reno Depot, Rona, etc, etc. And, literally, the longest bit is waiting for the iron to warm up. You measure twice, cut once and iron on your strip.... :-) Hides the mdf look of the backward-ness of the shelf.

The Road.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

It's not all bleak; sometimes it's merely grim.