{"id":358,"date":"2008-08-11T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/08\/behold-my-bookshelves.html"},"modified":"2008-08-11T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T08:03:00","slug":"behold-my-bookshelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/08\/behold-my-bookshelves.html","title":{"rendered":"Behold My Bookshelves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll admit to being<\/span> the slightest bit obsessive-compulsive when it comes to a few (just a few) things in life. One of them is the arrangement of books. Book lovers — and most writers — tend to have extensive collections of books and obsess over their arrangement.<\/p>\n

My living room has a big set of built-in shelves that have been home to my “best” books since we moved in a few years ago. (By “best” books, I mean the ones I want other people to see on my shelf, as opposed to the ones I keep in my closet because they are college textbooks, or only for research purposes, or kinda nerdy, or by Max Lucado.)<\/p>\n

I used to have my books divided into two categories: fiction and nonfiction. They were then alphabetized from left to right on my shelves, with fiction at the top. This is always how I’ve done it, and, yes, it’s a little bit OCD.<\/p>\n

I changed that this weekend. But instead of freaking me out, it’s been OK, because I replaced that first OCD organizational system with another, equally obsessive system. I arranged my books by color. Yep, color. I was inspired by a few cool photos<\/a> I’d seen on flickr<\/a> of books organized that way<\/a>, and I thought it looked cool.<\/p>\n

So I did it. And you know what? It looks cool.<\/p>\n

Anyway, thought I’d share. Here’s a pic of the shelves now.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a larger photo, if you want<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So now it’s your turn. <\/span>How do you organize your <\/span>books? By author? By color? By coolness?<\/p>\n

Please share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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