Very little. The bedroom is small and the tables are less than a square foot each. Each table holds one small lamp (one needing rewiring, just now). One table (triangular, to wedge into the angle at the window) also gets a phone in a charging stand on its lower shelf, usually a pen or pencil, eyeglasses, a tiny clock. The other table (square) gets a little tissue box, a small schwag notebook with a pen held in an elastic loop, eyeglass case, and a bottle of water or a drinking glass from time to time (these get knocked too easily off the narrow triangular table).
Sometimes a few books and TLS's collect on the floor, but that's discouraged, because they get dusty.
The bookshelf in the bedroom, other side of the room, is Limbo; it holds new acquisitions until read. These can loiter for a long time. I noticed Angelica's Grotto in there the other day, The Charterhouse of Parma, Exercises in Style, a monograph on the stairs in the Goethehaus in Weimar, Beecham Stories, a lot of Sun and Moon Classics, about half a shelf of poetry, some biographies, and miscellaneous others. But the bookshelf isn't necessarily bedtime reading. It's merely another storage area.
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Date: 8 January 2005 03:53 am (UTC)Sometimes a few books and TLS's collect on the floor, but that's discouraged, because they get dusty.
The bookshelf in the bedroom, other side of the room, is Limbo; it holds new acquisitions until read. These can loiter for a long time. I noticed Angelica's Grotto in there the other day, The Charterhouse of Parma, Exercises in Style, a monograph on the stairs in the Goethehaus in Weimar, Beecham Stories, a lot of Sun and Moon Classics, about half a shelf of poetry, some biographies, and miscellaneous others. But the bookshelf isn't necessarily bedtime reading. It's merely another storage area.