No more Dostoyevsky in my bedroom!
Today I did a thing that felt somewhat symbolic but totally good. I rearranged books on my bookshelves.
When I moved to this flat the books had already been arranged by my mother or grandmother and it took me actually 8 years to understand that it feels wrong that my favourite books are standing in the second row on the bookshelf in the hall but what my guests see on the shelves in my room is Russian classical literature.
Yeah, sometimes I'm slow.
I want my guests to discover something about me while looking at the bookshelves. I want them to see "Hyperion", and "Ground beneath her feet", and complete works of Rabindranath Tagore, and Salman Rushdie's works.
So, today I was late for the lesson but finally I got the books right.
"Hyperion" in the center of the shelf, "Endymion" at the bed-side. Yes.
When I moved to this flat the books had already been arranged by my mother or grandmother and it took me actually 8 years to understand that it feels wrong that my favourite books are standing in the second row on the bookshelf in the hall but what my guests see on the shelves in my room is Russian classical literature.
Yeah, sometimes I'm slow.
I want my guests to discover something about me while looking at the bookshelves. I want them to see "Hyperion", and "Ground beneath her feet", and complete works of Rabindranath Tagore, and Salman Rushdie's works.
So, today I was late for the lesson but finally I got the books right.
"Hyperion" in the center of the shelf, "Endymion" at the bed-side. Yes.