Impressive. I've always wanted floor to ceiling bookcases. Nice couches, too. Leather or upholstery? In our home they'd never survive. They'd be wine stained and dirty within three months. I always think people are brave to own any furniture in white.
We're not quite as brave as the picture implies. Throws usually cover the couches - upholstered chesterfields, my grandfather would call them - coming off only when we have company. It's the dogs, you understand... Okay, that and the red wine.
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
Impressive. I've always wanted floor to ceiling bookcases. Nice couches, too. Leather or upholstery? In our home they'd never survive. They'd be wine stained and dirty within three months. I always think people are brave to own any furniture in white.
ReplyDeleteWe're not quite as brave as the picture implies. Throws usually cover the couches - upholstered chesterfields, my grandfather would call them - coming off only when we have company. It's the dogs, you understand...
ReplyDeleteOkay, that and the red wine.