Trends and fashions come and go but at the height of their popularity the trends can cultivate some heated debate. Do you remember when #shelfie was a ‘thing’? Or arranging a books on a shelf by colour to create a bookish rainbow? People are divided on whether these things are a waste of time, highly impractical, or just a fun way to arrange your home.
The latest bookshelf-altering idea is for the neutral-colour-lovers among us: some of you may remember when we posted a picture on Facebook of a bookshelf in which the books were all turned about with the spines facing the wall. Many of our Reading Addicts were unhappy with the idea- deeming the bookshelf owner (apparently someone called ‘Lauren’) to be a little superficial, and “obviously not a reader”.
It seems our Reading Addicts were not alone in feeling this: Twitter was ablaze with heated debate on what the heck ‘Lauren’ thought she was doing.
Comments were ranging from: “I don’t have enough shelf space for the books I read, much less to ‘create a look.” to “Has she lost her mind?”, along with some a little more accepting of the ‘look’: “I love the sculptural effect you get by facing the pages out.”
People were coming out of the woodwork from all over the World Wide Web to offer their opinion, and some further evidence of books being treated as mere aesthetic objects.
I spied a potential ‘next trend’: books tied up with string for apparently no reason… Don’t forget to tell us your thoughts, Reading Addicts!
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What are books doing tied up? It looks as if they’re a gift or never read. I suppose if you had your favorite books of all time that you had read and would always keep, you could make them look nice by doing that. But this really speaks to the trend of “showing your best” – a lot of photos aren’t real life anymore but are instead staged images of how we want people to see us (“Ah Lauren must be creative and like to do DIY projects”).