In the last weeks, we were really busy with our Master and Dina setting up a new library room in our house. We had rented out this room before. For a long time, we thought about how to use this space. Should it become a space for storage as we don’t have a cellar?
That’s the shadow side of collecting, it needs space. Dina was adamant that these piles of books in our rooms and books on books and in front of books on shelves have to go. Obediently, we created not a space for storage but a home for about a thousand books.
Photo: Fuji XT3 Fujinon 16-55mm f2.8
In den letzten Wochen waren wir mit Dina und Masterchen damit beschäftigt, einen neuen Bibliotheksraum in unserem Haus einzurichten. Bis vor kurzem war dieser Raum vermietet. Lange überlegten wir, wie wir den Platz nutzen können. Lagerraum, weil wir keinen Keller haben?
Platz ist der Fluch jeder Sammelleidenschaft. Dina drang darauf, dass Bücherstapel in unseren Zimmern, Bücher vor und auf Büchern in den Regalen verschwinden müssten. Folgsam schufen wir kein Lager sondern einen Raum für etwa tausend Bücher.
The room in former times
“To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.”
The House of Paper’
We discussed hotly with our Master, being a specialist for colours, which colour scheme we should choose for this room. In the end, we agreed on white and shades of light grey. The walls were painted in strong colours before as you can see in older pictures. We thought that rather neutral colours would be soothing as books are already quite colourful. Besides white creates a pleasant sense of space. White makes this big room even seem bigger and higher. This was one reason why small rooms like toilets are traditionally painted white.
Heiß diskutierten wir mit unserem Master als Farbspezialist, welches Farbschema der Raum bekommen sollte, bis wir uns auf Weiß und helle Grautöne einigten. Wie ihr auf älteren Fotos seht, hat dieser Raum kräftigere Farben gesehen. Da Bücher bereits bunt sind, fanden wir neutrale Farben beruhigend. Außerdem gibt Weiß ein wunderbares Raumgefühl. Es lässt den großen Raum noch größer und höher wirken, weswegen kleine Räume wie Toiletten traditionell weiß gestrichen wurden.
Choosing colours was our most pleasant task. But to get some workmen to come needed energy with that one could establish empires in former times. In the end, we did everything ourselves, sanding the floor, painting, plastering and getting the shelves up. We were astonished how much we could do without any help.
Die Wahl der Farben war unsere angenehmste Aufgabe, aber Handwerker zu bekommen, benötigte die Energie, mit der man früher hätte Weltreiche gründen können. So haben wir vom Abschleifen des Bodens über das Streichen und Verputzen der Wände bis hin zum Aufstellen der Regale alles selber gemacht. Es erstaunt uns immer wieder, wie viel man selber machen kann, was man oft unhinterfragt an Handwerker deligiert.
The gallery: iPhone 7+
When everything was done Ikea delivered 9 bookshelves. Our master full of naive optimism thought we could get them up in 2 hours. Nonsense! With securing the shelves to walls and sawing holes for the sockets it took us 9 hours. But that was easy work in comparison to filling the shelves. First, we needed a plan for how to organise the books. Our Master loves plans but he wasn’t aware of what hard work it is to shift a thousand books to fill the shelves. Stooping, dragging, stretching without an end. This is more effective than visiting a fitness studio – what we would never do.
Als alles fertig war, bekamen wir 9 Ikea-Regale geliefert. Unser Master meinte voller naiven Optimismus, in zwei Stunden könnten wir 4 die stehen haben. Völliger Quatsch, mit Verankerung an der Wand und paar Modifikationen wegen der Steckdosen brauchten wir 9 Stunden. Das jedoch war leicht im Vergleich zum Einräumen der Regale. Zuerst braucht man einen Plan, wie die Bücher zu ordnen sind. Unser Master liebt Pläne, aber ihm war nicht klar, welche Schwerstarbeit es ist, tausend Bücher zu bewegen. Bücken, Schleppen, Strecken ohne Ende, das ist besser als jeder Besuch im Filtness-Studio, wo uns eh keiner hinbekommt.
We asked ourselves “Why do we collect books?” Goethe wrote that collectors are happy people. Freud thought they are anal fixed as they love to hold. When we asked our Master he answered that it’s satisfying to create an order. He rationalised his passion: “It creates security to fight chaos with order!” Dina was rather taken by the aesthetics: “the new, sensible order creates beauty, clarity and a certain lightness!” We Bookfayries didn’t dare to tell them that they (probably) are fallen back to the stage of hunters and collectors. But don’t be afraid, we save them of not to be fully in the grip of an uncontrolled passion for collecting as Honore de Balzac has been.
“Warum sammeln wir eigentlich Bücher?” fragten wir uns. Goethe meinte, Sammler seien glückliche Menschen, Freud hielt sie für analgestört, was sich im Halten ausdrückt. Als wir Masterchen diese Frage stellten, meinte er, dass es befriedigend sei etwas zu ordnen. “Es bringt Sicherheit, Ordnung ins Chaos zu bringen!” rationalisiert er mit Überzeugung seine Leidenschaft. Dina dagegen geht es um Ästhetik, “die neue, überschaubarere Ordnung bringt Schönheit, Klarheit und Leichtigkeit“, sagte sie uns. Wir Buchfeen trauten uns nicht zu erwähnen, dass Dina und Masterchen vielleicht auf die Stufe der Sammler und Jäger zurückgefallen sind. Aber keine Angst, wir bewahren sie davor, nicht wie Honore de Balzac der unkontrollierten Sammeleidenschaft zu verfallen.
Photo: Fuji XT3 Fujinon 16-55mm f2.8
In Hay-on-Wye we saw bookmarks for indicating first, signed and personally dedicated editions. Do you have a system for marking special books?
Anyway, our library room is finished and immediately became our favourite room in which we are writing this text. To get an idea, Dina took some pictures with the help of us Bookfayries with her new camera. Well, Dina bought a Fuji XT3 mirrorless camera with a Fujinon 16-55mm f2.8 lens. Now she doesn’t struggle with piles of books any longer but as a Nikon-Fan she is struggling with the Fuji-system, so completely different from what she is used to.
“Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books – the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of ’em. I’ve had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I’ve ever done in life.”
The Last Bookman’
In Hay-on-Wye sahen wir Lesezeichen, die Erstauflagen und signierte und persönlich gewidmete Bücher kennzeichnen. Habt Ihr ein Wiedererkennungssystem für besondere Bücher?
Auf jeden Fall ist der Raum fertig und sogleich zu unser aller Lieblingsraum geworden, in dem wir diesen Text gerade schreiben. Damit ihr einen Eindruck bekommt, hat Dina mit uns Buchfeen Bilder mit der neuen Kamera gemacht. Ja, Dina hat sich eine Fuji XT3 spiegellose Kamera mit einem Fujinon Objektiv 16-55mm f2.8 gekauft und nun ist der Raum fertig und wir Nikon-Fans kämpfen jetzt mit dem Fuji-System.
Photo: Fuji XT3 Fujinon 16-55mm f2.8
Warm Greetings from our library
Mit lieben Grüßen aus unserer Bibliothek
Siri 🧚♀️ and 🧚♀️ Selma
P.S.
Für unsere deutschsprachigen Leser
Unser Raum ist zwar weiß geworden, aber Weiß lässt immer Schwarz anklingen. Wer an der Symbolik und Wirkung der Farbe Schwarz interessiert ist, der kann am Samstag, 11. Mai, unseren Master dazu hören. Es ist ein Gespräch mit Thilo Jahn im Deutschlandfunk (Sendung “Grünstreifen”, ab 14:10h).
Viel Spaß beim Hören 🙂 🙂
Weitere Infos zu den unbunten Farben Weiß und Schwarz fidet ihr in folgenden Büchern unseres Masters
* Das große Buch der Farben (Königsfurt-Urania)
* Farben (Droemer-Knaur Tb.)
* Das Geheimnis der Farbe Weiß (Fischer Media Vlg. und Vlg. Bruno Martin – vergriffen, nur noch über uns zu beziehen)
* Das Geheimnis der Farbe Schwarz (Fischer Media Vlg. und Vlg. Bruno Martin – vergriffen, nur noch über uns zu beziehen)
* Schwarz – Weiß (Goldmann Vlg. – vergriffen)
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© Text and illustrations, Hanne Siebers and Klausbernd Vollmar, Cley next the Sea, 2019
This could soon become the favourite room in the house.
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Dear Anneli,
it already is 🙂 🙂
Thanks and wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a lovely room! It would certainly be my favorite!
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It is our’s already 🙂 🙂
Thanks and have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I’m so impressed that you did all the work yourselves. You created an inviting room where you can contemplate and read and write – order out of chaos!
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Dear Susanne,
but now we are happy that nearly everything is done and the order is established! And we can relax blogging.
All the best and thanks for commenting
The Fab Four of Cley
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That looks awesome. Wish I had a room like that!
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Dear Hans,
we can’t decide in which room we like to be now 😉 We love it 🙂 🙂
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Congratulations on a wonderful room and doing it yourselves. I re-read most of my books several times and am jealous not only of your room but also the extent of your book collection. I think just one column form your stacks could handle my collection with plenty of room for future growth. 🙂
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Dear David,
thank you very much 🙂 🙂
The problem always is the room for future growth. As all the books are in alphabetical order within the different topics it’s always hard to get new ones in if the shelves are fully filled. So we tried it with some space and hope for the best. That’s about 10% of our book collection, the rest is in the other rooms in the house. 10% less books there means space for books to come.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I can relate to your new room because I grew up in a house with thousands of books that my father had collected throughout his life.
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Dear Steve,
lucky you. Did you inherit all your father’s books?
Thanks and enjoy the weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I took some and my sister even more, some we gave to a library, and many others we donated to a book sale to raise money for an organization.
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We think, book collections are very individual. One has to collect the books oneself. But our dear Master experienced something different a couple of years ago. He inherited a huge collection of mostly art book from a person he only saw once because he gave her a lift. She died a couple of months later and made, to his great astonishment, our dear Master inherit her book collection. She has had the same interests as our Master.
But I, Klausbernd, have the feeling that our beloved Bookfayries were manipulating there. But who knows. They will not tell.
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Impressive!
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THANK YOU!
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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You’re welcome!
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What a beautiful space!
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Great that you like it 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Peace.
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It looks wonderful! Congratulations;ations on a great project. What better thing to have in a home than a large room full of knowledge, entertainment and information on its walls?
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Dear Angela,
that is great, indeed! 🙂 🙂
Thanks for commenting and wishing you a relaxing weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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It’s just the kind of room I’d love to spend hours writing, dreaming and reading. What a wonderful makeover! Love it!
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We love it as well. We exactly do there what you describe. It’s an inspiring room.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I can relate to the organizational issues, to be sure. Lovely setup!
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How to organise the books that we can use them, meaning easily find a certain book, was the great question. As 10% of our library went into this room that was a chance for a new order of books there as well as in the house.
Thanks for commenting and liking our setup 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I have a good inventory list of my books, but locating them can sometimes be a challenge!
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We organise our library with a computer programme for libraries. We use iBookshelves and up to 10.000 books it’s perfect. Organising more books slows down this programme. – but we an live with that.
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I use CLZCollecter-Books. I like it, but I never take the time to fill in the book’s location, because it changes frequently at first. So it’s my own fault I can’t find the ones I’m looking for all the time.
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We sometimes looked for days to find a certain book before we used this programme.
Did you experience that too, you look for a book at a place you are sure that it’s there but you can’t find it. The next day you look again and it’s there. Are the Bookfayries playing tricks or what is it?
We googled the CLZ Bookcollector. It more or less does the same as our programme.
Wishing you an easy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Your hard work has reaped such a wonderful space! I so wish I could be a part of it. And how wonderful that you HAVE such space. My brother passed last year and left me about 800 books. Sadly, as I live in an apartment, I could only keep about 50. But I found happy, appropriate homes for the rest. Some are in the library of our local historic aircraft restorations society, for example.
Then there were the hundreds of coins he left me. Australian pre-decimal, Australian decimal and coins from all around the world. There was even a beautiful silver medallion from Germany inscribed dornroschen, which you will realise depicted the Sleeping Beauty.
Now it is his die-cast model cars that I am sorting.
If only I had such a space as yours I could have kept everything 🙂
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Oh, such a shame, Gwendoline!
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Dear Gwendoline,
the big challenge is to find the space for collections. Every collection is asking for space. For books one needs lots of free wall-space.
As Sue wrote, it’s a shame that you couldn’t keep your brother’s collections. But passing it on to appropriate homes is fine, isn’t it?
Dornröschen, the Sleeping Beauty – that must be a beautiful silver medallion. This motive was popular in Jugendstil (Art Nouveau).
Thanks a lot for your commentary 🙂 🙂 and all the best with sorting the model cars.
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I sent the coins to auction earlier this month. There were hundreds of them, and it had taken me about three months to look at every one. The sleeping beauty medallion was with them. I’m a bit sorry now, I could have made a necklace, to wear and think of my brother. That is the challenge when a family member receives a huge collection, it is so overwhelming that you can’t think clearly. Another thing I am sad about, is that as I go through this process, the books, the coins, the cars – I meet people who had like interests to him. He became a bit reclusive over the years, and it is a pity that now I am meeting his “tribe”, people he would have felt comfortable with and enjoyed happy hours of conversations. But I am happy when I find those people, as I know his things are going to be loved as much as he did love them.
Life lessons for all ofus, I think.
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Dear Gwendoline,
when we have to part from collections it’s so important to find people or institutions who honour and love them.
Interesting what you write about getting to know your brother’s tribe. Indeed, a lot of collectors know each other and are like minded.
Have a happy Sunday
The Fab Four of Cley
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Guess what Klausbernd. On account of our internet conversation, and in memory of my brother, I went back to the auctioneer, and asked him to contact the buyer about my brother’s Dornroschen medallion. In the end, I bought it back from the dealer, (yes! he made a good profit LOL),. Then I had it made into a neck pendant and bought a new silver chain to hang it from. Now I wear it every day. It is similar to this medallion. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/04/a9/33/04a933d2179c14615ea0eeeea2f02560–nursery-rhymes-vintage-silver.jpg
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Thanks, dear Gwendoline, for the picture. Well, Dornröschen is the symbol of the lady (the anima following C.G. Jung) who wants to be erotically awaken. The magic kiss …
Great that you got this medallion back and wear it. We are sure that your brother would like you wearing it.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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P.S.
Have you read this fairy tale in the collection of the Grimm brothers?
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Well I had no idea about the Jung connection. Wow!
Most children of my era read classic “fairy” tales such as Aesop’s Fables, Hans Christian Anderson and the Grimm Brothers. Looking back on the Grimm’s as an adult, some of their concepts are downright scary and dark. Not at all the way Walt Disney would have us think of Sleeping Beauty 🙂
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Dear Gwendoline
the Grimm brother were ethnologists. They were collecting fairy tales to document the history of literature. Actually they saw their collection of fairy tales as a scientific document. When they noticed that it was read by ‘normal’ people to their children they slightly changed the texts (that is the version that became well known) by making it more acceptable. F.e. the horrible mothers became stepmothers etc. Andersen is different. He is a classic Romantic poet writing literary fairy tales as they were fashionable in his time. That’s poetry like Bechstein’s, ETA Hoffmann’s, Tieck’s and Hauff’s fairy tales.
Walt Disney transformed fairy tales into mawkish tales.
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A very meaningful and worthwhile project! Congratulations for creating a wonderful home for the books!
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Thank you very much 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a wonderful room and the perfect wall & shelf colours to show off your collection.
I love the array of chair styles also. All in all, a project well done. Congratulations! 🙂
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Dear Vicki,
that’s GREAT that you like our new room 🙂 🙂 Oh dear, we nearly converted it into a storage room or garage. That would have been a shame!
Dina has a good eye for old furniture. She spotted all the chairs in antique and charity shops.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Also, ich kann auch sehr gut in einer Bücherei schlafen. Besonders wenn sie so hell und freundlich daher kommt wie die Eure. Sieht toll aus! Herzliche Grüsse Ruth ps Ein Leben ohne Bücher ist möglich, aber nicht – hier fällt mir so manches ein. Ich möchte sie nicht missen.
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Liebe Ruth,
für uns strahlen Bücher Gemütlichkeit aus. Du hast das recht mitbekommen: Die ganze Südseite ist eine Fensterfront, von daher ist es das ideale Morgenzimmer. Unser zweiter großer gemütlicher Buchraum mit offenen Kamin ist das ideale Abendzimmer. Da schreiben wir jetzt gerade, naja, Masterchen schreibt, und wir flüstern ihm Blödsinn zu, dass es nicht zu lehrerhaft ernst wird.
Liebe Grüße vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Do you feel the envy creeping through the blogosphere?
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Dear Judith,
oh dear, oh dear, that was not meant to be. We were so proud and wanted to share it.
Thanks and cheers.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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You have done a wonderful job. I would like to sit there to read and write. Enjoy your beautiful library!
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Ahoy, ear Matroos,
yes, we do! We could sit there the whole day writing and reading.
Thank you 🙂 🙂
With lots of love from the little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lovely library room. I love the Fuji X system and use XT1 & XH1 most of the time & still finding what the system can do.
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Thanks a lot, dear Andy 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hello Andy, I must admit I’m still struggling with the right settings for this camera, but eventually I’ll master it. You have some lovely wildlife photography on your blog.:-)
Love, Dina
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Thanks
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Oh, I loved a similar project, some years ago! So satisfying. But this old lady warns you …. one day, you may move somewhere smaller as your needs change. You may be obliged to downsize your library. This feels about as impossible as murdering your children. We did this recently. Horrible.
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I know what you mean, I had to do that a few years ago….
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Not great, is it?
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Nope!
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Dear Margaret,
oh dear, actually we know but repress it. Our Master is the oldest of us, he is in his seventies, but when he will be eighty or ninety …
Even now we had big problems giving whole sections of our library away (for reasons of space) although we weren’t not interested in these subjects any more and hadn’t touched one of these books for years. But giving them away was like murder.
But Dina and our beloved Bookfayries are much younger. Well, we will see.
Thanks and wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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We too have moved several times in the past 7 years since I retired, each new house smaller than the last. So half our books had to go. Some found happy homes with friends who needed them. But it is like losing part of your history and therefore part of yourself.
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People assured me I’d feel lightened, unburdened. I don’t. I feel bereaved.
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Exactly!
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The new fashion is decluttering your house and this should give lightness and freedom but at least that doesn’t refer to books (or to every collection). We had to give our library away before we went living in Montreal. It was horrible, we felt bereaved too. We still regret it although it’s more than 30 years ago.
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Just …. not good.
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Das Zimmer ist wunderbar geworden. Ihr könnt stolz auf euch sein. Viel Spaß beim Lesen und Schreiben in diesem Raum. Liebe Grüße, Susanne
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Guten Abend, liebe Susanne,
wir sind auch mächtig stolz auf unser Werk und lieben diesen Raum 🙂 🙂 Schön, dass er auch dir gefällt.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom Meer
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So ein Lese- und Schreibzimmer ist einfach ein Traum. Schön, dass ihr ihn euch erfüllen konntet.
Für uns geht es in 2 Wochen auch ans Meer, Darß und Hiddensee. Liebe Grüße aus Dresden, Susanne
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Liebe Susanne,
danke, dass dir unser neues Bibliothekszimmer gut gefällt. Auch wir finden, dass es uns gut gelungen ist – obwohl wir am Anfang der Arbeiten skeptisch waren.
Darß und Hiddensee müssen sehr schön sein, wie wir hörten. Wir kennen leider den Osten Deutschlands fast gar nicht. Wir können dann sicher auf deinem Blog lesen, wie es dort war. Wir sind gespannt. Auf jeden Fall wünschen wir euch eine rundum tolle Zeit dort.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom inzwischen stürmischen Meer
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Lieben Dank, ihr Vier. Auf dem Blog gibt’s schon einen Beitrag über den Darß, aber ich werde danach ein paar Bilder einstellen. Die Kamera muss ja mal wieder raus. 😁
Liebe Grüße, Susanne
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Liebe Susanne,
Darß hat ja eine höchst ungewöhnliche Schreibweise. Mit dieser avantgardistischen Rechtschreibung erwarten wir einen ganz besonderen Platz. Deine Kamera wird sich sicher über den Ausflug freuen und schönste Bilder einfangen.
Liebe Grüße vom heute regnerischen Meer
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Hallo Ihr Vier. Besonders ist diese Halbinsel definitiv. Ein Kleinod, noch relativ naturbelassen und ein Paradies für Radler wie uns.
Liebe Grüße aus dem grauen Dresden, was gestern endlich etwas Regen abbekommen hat, Susanne
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Einen tollen Urlaub euch dort
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Danke. 😊
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This is so beautiful and great… I know (because of myself 🙂 ) this room will be the best place… Thank you, Love, nia
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Hi, dear Nia,
thanks for commenting and liking our room which is already our favourite room.
We wish you a great weekend.
Love
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Ihr lieben Vier,
der Raum ist uns noch sehr vertraut 😉
Ich finde, dass die neue Nutzung eine wirklich gute Idee ist!
Viel Freude und Inspirationen in eurer neuen Bibliothek,
Susanne
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Vielen Dank, liebe Susanne 🙂 🙂
ja, es waren hauptsächlich Dina und unsere liebklugen Buchfeen, die auf dieser Nutzung bestanden.
Und nun lieben wir das Zimmer, in dem zuletzt unser Gärtner wohnte.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom sonnig warmen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ich mochte besonders die Helligkeit des Raumes. 🙂 Er ist unmittelbar zu eurem Garten und bietet so die besten Lesemöglichkeiten 🙂
Ein schönes Wochenende euch im Fernen Cley
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Liebe Susanne,
eben haben wir noch eine Glycinie gepflanzt, deren blauen Blüten dann über den Fenstern und dem Eingang hängen und uns mit ihren Duft betören werden. ja, der Blick auf den Vorgarten ist wunderschön.
Danke für deine leben Wünsche.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom windigen Meer
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Lieber Klausbernd,
ich mag Glycinien auch sehr gerne und hatte eine in meinem ersten Garten übernommen. Sie blühte jedes Jahr und verbreitete sich wie “Unkraut”. Mein Sohn hat sie gerade sehr heruntergeschnitten, weil sie die Dachziegel hochgehoben hat.
Einen schönen Donnerstag wünscht euch Susanne
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Liebe Susanne,
dann hoffen wir das beste für unsere Glycinie. Wir hatten nämlich gewisse Bedenken, da Gartenbücher meinten, es sei eine schwierige Pflanze.
Mit lieben Grüßen von uns
Klausbernd 🙂
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Von der Pflege her, hatte ich gar keine Probleme, ich habe sie erfolgreich ignoriert und nur wie alle anderen Pflanzen gegossen. Während der Blütezeit habe ich sie natürlich entsprechend gelobt 😉
Viele Grüße von Susanne
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PRIMA. Dann werde ich nett mit ihr sprechen, und Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma reden ja sogar Blumisch.
Habe einen schönen Tag
Klausbernd 🙂
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So jealous of your library! It looks fantastic.
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Dear Tara,
thank you so much 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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What an absolutely wonderful room. Very well done. Early on, I posted a series documenting our converting the garage for the same purpose – with IKEA Billy bookshelves
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Dear Derrick,
when we bought this house about 30 years ago this was a garage. Later it was a guest room and in the last year our gardener lived there.
IKEA Billy bookshelves are the friends of every booklover.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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I asked Derrick for a link to his library posts. Please visit his blog and have a look:
There are a number of posts describing the process in April and May 2014.
https://derrickjknight.com/2014/05/07/finishing-touches/
is the last, but you might particularly like https://derrickjknight.com/2014/05/05/hours-in-a-library/
Thank you Derrick! 🙂
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And you, Dina, for your interest and the publication of the links
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Eure Bibliothek ist wunderschön geworden! Viele gute Lesestunden wünsche ich euch.
Viele Grüße, Claudia
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Danke, liebe Claudia 🙂 🙂
Du glaubst es kaum, wir haben jetzt schon viele tolle und inspirierende Stunden dort verbracht.
Mt lieben Grüßen vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow! das habt ihr echt toll gemacht! Ihr habt meine volle Bewunderung, da ich den Raum von früher her kenne und von daher ehr gut mit vorstellen kann, welche Arbeit da drinsteckt. Ich wüsnche euch Vieren auf jeden Fall viel Spaß in Eurer neuen Bibliothek! Ahc, übrigens und herzliche Gratualtion zu dem Kauf der XT3. Bin ja auch schon seit einiger Zeit von Nikon auf Fuji umgestiegen und bin total überzeutgt vonder Qualität, die die Fuji produziert.
Liebe Grüße
Euer Konrad
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Guten Abend, lieber Konrad,
nun sind wir froh, dass alles mehr oder weniger fertig ist. Es fehlen noch ein paar Kleinigkeiten, aber die können warten. Nun genießen wir erst einmal diesen Raum, den du ja gut kennst.
Habe ganz herzlichen Dank für deine lieben Worte und Wünsche.
Viele liebe Grüße an Astrid und dich
The Fab Four of Cley
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P.S.
Komm’ ‘mal vorbei gucken!
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Hallo lieber Konrad,
es ist ein gewaltiger Unterschied zu der Nikon Kamera. Was war für dich die größte Umstellung als du zu Fuji wechselte? Benutzt du LR oder ein anderes Bildbearbeitungsprogramm für deine Fuji Fotos? Noch halte ich an der Nikon und der ganzen Reihe Objektive fest und betrachte die Fuji Kamera als die (leichtere) Zweitausstattung, aber wer weiß, wie das in einem Jahr aussieht. 😉
Sei lieb gegrüßt, du und Astrid,
Hanne
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Fabulous! Love the colour scheme and how you’ve done the shelves. I changed from Nikon to Fuji a few years ago and have never looked back. I swapped my D700 for an XT1, since upgraded to the XT2. The 16-55 is a great lens. It did take a bit of getting used to as it is quite different to Nikon, but I’m sure Hanna will get the hang of it and I look forward to seeing the outcomes!
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Dear Fraggle,
great that you like our colours and shelving unit. We thought white shelving in a white room is ideal.
About the camera Dina will write later.
Thanks and enjoy the weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hi FR, the Fuji is indeed different to my beloved (and heavy) Nikon and I’m still struggling with the settings. A friend with the same camera will help me next week and I’m sure I’ll master it one day. What do you use for editing your photos? I might be wrong, but I have a feeling LR is not the best program from Fuji. Do you have any favourite lenses beside the 16-55? Thank you very much for helping out! 🙂
Much love, Hanne
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I LOVE your library! What an inviting room! I find a home without books a soulless place- I have 1 or 2 bookshelves in each room (well, I am in a flat, so not so many rooms!) BUT I would love to have a library area….now I have to get thinking!!
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Dear Sue,
for a long time our dear Master lived on his own in our house and so it has several library rooms. But with Dina’s and our Bookfayrie’s taste that room is the most beautiful.
We could well imagine a combination of library and bedroom. Well, we Bookfayries sleep in the library anyway. Being surrounded by books gives great dreams!
Thanks for commenting 🙂 🙂 and wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thanks, Fab Four, and Happy Weekend!
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I am sooo jealous! What a perfect reading room!!! I would also use it for my yarning (knit, crochet, needle point etc) stuffs. So bright, light and airy – awesome job guys!!!
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Thank you very much 🙂 🙂
Indeed, it would be an ideal room for your yarning.
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ah, Himmel!
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Thanks a lot, dear Dick 🙂 🙂
Greetings to you and Guni
The Fab Four of Cley
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Having known you Guys and BookFayries for a while, feeling like an eternity, your love of books is amazing and contagious.
We had the privilege to be amongst the first of your many friends to see the progress of your work, ultimately enjoying an evening in your creation of a wonderful heaven space. Thank you.
Dina’s photos show that she is getting used to her new camera. Congratulations.
We know that you will have many happy days and nights of reading, writing and entertaining in this awesome library.
Looking forward to seeing what will come next to sort out and display the remaining 10,000+ books of your collection… 🤯🤭😉🤔
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Dear Frederic,
thanks a lot for liking our new library room. To furnish this room we changed our living room as well. The library is our morning room and the living room has become our evening room. Dina and Selma 🙂 always have great ideas how to change our rooms and make them even more cosy. Well, that has the effect that we don’t want to leave the house any more.
Looking forward seeing you at Briston in an hour
The Fab Four of Cley
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GOSH, how wonderful. Airy light and so spacious. ❤ I love books (and with my name it's an obligation. 🙂 Space is always a problem for a book-nerd. Well done on you.
Is the lovely little table in the right corner a turnaround one? My father used to have one of those.
Congratulations to this achievement!!
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Dear Elly,
yes, that little table-bookshelf is indeed a turnaround one. We found it at kind of junk yard and cleaned, restored and polished it. Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma love to turn it – and we do as well 🙂 🙂
Books need a lot of space unfortunately. But we hope having solved the space problem for the next years. We’ll see.
Thank you very much 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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We envy your family name 😉
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Congrats for such a beautiful , comfortable home for your books ! They have become the main “persons” here, colourful as they are. But it’s a space of welcome and reading, too. Cheers, Petra
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Dear Petra,
it was our aim that the books become the main ‘persons’ in our new library room and that we have enough space for working there.
There is enough room now to let our minds go wandering.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Well done. What a comfortable-looking room!
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Thank you, dear Linda 🙂 🙂
It’s our ideal room for reading and working now.
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow, this would definitely be my favorite room in the house. Beautiful! 📚
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Good afternoon, dear Alexis,
we are very happy with the room now. We have two favourite rooms in our house and they are very different. One is our new library room the other is our living room which is full of books as well. But the styling is different. It’s with an open fire, a sofa and many flowers – in a way more old fashioned. That’s our ‘evening-room’.
Wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Im not sure I would ever leave your house if I came to visit. 😃 Have a wonderful weekend!
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Thank you
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Oh, our dear garden would be very sad 😉
Well, we sit much more inside now. We rationalise it with the windy weather.
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Fab Four of Cley,
As I have one complete wall filled with books in the living room and the dining room, I am well aware of how comforting they can be! In fact I wish I had back all the books I’ve given away over the years. You worked hard on this room and it shows. I can well imagine anyone of you spending plenty of time in there!
Have a wonderful weekend, my friends!
GP Cox
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Dear GP Cox,
we worked every day there for 9 to 10 hours for a fortnight. Partly it was hard work like sanding down the floor. But we saw a progress every day what kept us going. We haven’t done everything yet but the time being it’s fine and we are very happy with this room now.
It’s very comfy being surrounded with books. Now we don’t want to leave this room.
Did you buy a shelving unit or did you build the shelves yourself? In all our other other rooms we built the shelves ourselves. Now we are very happy with this shelving system as it can take quite some weight (35 kg per board).
We suppose you have lots of books as well. All the history you are covering on your blog needs a lot of reference books we suppose.
We wish our dear American friend a wonderful weekend as well and thanks for commenting
The Fab Four of Cley
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The wall in the living room, we built in, but those that take up the dining room wall were purchased. Being as he 2 room are open in an el-shape, the books appear to all be part of the same room.
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That sounds great! L-shapes are very suitable for bookshelves, aren’t they?
Wishing you a relaxing week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you, Klausbernd. You and the remaining Four of Cley do the same!
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Dear GP Cox
we are just going through all our books marking first editions, signed and dedicated copies. Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma produced beautiful bookmarks.
Enjoy the day
Klausbernd 🙂
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Will you be posting them?
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We are not sure. They are in the books now.
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What an amazing transition! This lovely room went entirely from feeding the body to feeding the head.
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Hi, dear Edie,
indeed, you are right this is the transformation of a room from feeding the body to feeding the head. That’s it! The books drove out cooker and fridge.
Thanks and wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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You did a wonderful job and now you have the perfect place to relax or work. Well done!
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Thank you very much, dear Dan 🙂 🙂
it’s fun to work there and very inspiring and at the same time relaxing just to sit there reading.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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The room looks awesome. There is something about a room full of books read and to be read that brings comfort. We could settle there awhile and know you will too. We like how you presented the story to illustrate the new room.
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Thank you very much for liking our new library room and how we presented it. After all the work the presentation was great fun.
We love to be in this room. It’s inspiring to work there and relaxing just sitting there reading.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Be still my trembling heart! What a fabulous room! A lot of work, but the results are fantastic. I have library jealousy. 😉
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Hi, dear Laurie,
don’t be library jealous! The disadvantage of this room is you don’t want to leave it. Our garden is already complaining that we all the time sit inside.
Thank you very much and wishing you great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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😉
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
We are just marking all our first editions, signed and dedicated books.
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I am so happy with you that you had the space and the time to create this literary oasis for your family.
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Dear Peter,
actually, Dina and Selma 🙂 got the idea to use the space like this. They always have such great ideas. And a room dedicated to books only was something we always wanted to have. Now we can’t stop reading and looking at art books. In this room we have all our art books and all the books connected with Scandinavia and the polar regions.
We wish you and your family a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Stunning!
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Thank you!
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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A cup of tea and some biscuits and hunker down with a good book. Lovely!
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This is exactly what we do there! Siri 🙂 is just reading together with our Master “The Gardener’s Perspective” by Håkon Nesser and Selma 🙂 with our dear Dina flicks through some photo magazines. Outside it’s quite a wind.
Thanks and happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow, looks amazing! This would be my dream room!
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Dear Mia,
it is our very much liked dream room.
Thank you for commenting and liking our new library room.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Marvelous, delicious space, beautifully executed.
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Dear Sally,
thank you VERY much for your kind words 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a relaxing weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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It’s lovely!!! There’s just nothing like holding a good book in your hands! I prefer it rather than reading a screen. I thought I had a vast library, but yours is quite larger! I noticed the alcohol & books hang out together in the same room 🙂
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Dear Dawn,
we only read real books and sometimes listen to audio books but we would never ever read a book on the screen.
Alcohol and books go very well together 😉 Remember how many authors liked their drink (often too much).
In this library room we have about 10% of our book collection. It’s the art books (including photography) and books about the North and the polar regions only.
Thanks and cheers, have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Indeed, and I thought it neat for spirits to be kept with that which encapsulates spirits of another sort. 10% you say… oh my! Well, my puny library, in comparison has a similar organization, but that applies to shelves of bookcases, not entire rooms : ) I’m glad to see books appreciated or cherished when the world is changing so. We hope your weekend is a happy one as well.
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Dear Dawn,
thank you very much 🙂 🙂
We love books and couldn’t live without.
To organise our library shelves we use a computer programme – a professional library programme – otherwise we would loose our overview.
Wishing you a happy Sunday
The Fab Four of Cley
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A remarkable transformation, Klaus. Plenty of room for the Fab Four.
Enjoy.
Ω
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Dear Allan,
we enjoy our new room very much. There is enough space to let our mind go wandering. It’s just a room where we get lots of inspirations.
Thank you for commenting and liking our new room.
Wishing you a relaxing weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Oh my goodness! It is so bright and nice and really brings a warmth to the room. Personal libraries are such a joy to have in a house, it was the number one room I had to introduce Kaylee when she first came to us. It turned out amazing, such a perfect project.
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Thank you very much for commenting and for liking our new library room.
We have quite a big book collection and so we have several library rooms in our house. They are all different. One is with a big sofa and an open fire. That’s our evening room. Another one is quite small, ideal for concentrating and our Master’s office is full as full can be with dictionaries and reference books.
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Reblogged this on Night Time Honors and commented:
Libraries are great, a personal one is even better!
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Thank you very much for reblogging. We feel honored 🙂 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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You’ve done a fabulous job creating this beautiful library and we hope you’ll be able to enjoy spending time in there for many years to come 🙂🍀
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Dear Xenia,
thank you so much for your kind words 🙂 🙂 for liking our new library room and our post about it and most of all for your great wishes.
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a fabulous room and so inviting. I have always wanted a library room, with a wood burning stove and leather tub chairs to curl up in, somewhere snug. Yours is light and bright and cheerful and I can see you all spending many hours there – well the Bookfayries will be very busy keeping them dust free and tidy! A perfect place to relax in.
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Dear Jude,
our other library room is more like your dream: a wood burning stove, a big sofa and comfy chairs and about as many books as in our new library room. There are living the crime and seafarer’s stories and our collection of books about pirates. That’s our evening room.
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma are really so sweet. They keep our white library room meticulously clean – well, until now …
With lots of love from the east coast – very windy today
The Fab Four of Cley
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Your house sounds perfect KB. Hold onto those girls!
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Will do!
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Excellent. this is a very attractive room and as it is now your own personal library what a luxury!
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Dear Anne,
we love this library room in our house. It’s our day-time-libary-room. We have a night-time-library-room as well. This has as many books but it’s more old fashioned with sofa and open fire. We love to be surrounded by books. – We know that our library-rooms are a luxury, but a little luxury is nice when you get older, isn’t it?
Thanks for your kind words.
We wish you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a wonderful transformation. Did you keep the kitchen area so you can easily make coffee or snacks while reading?
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Dear Gallivanta,
no, we didn’t keep the kitchen. We got rid of the fridge, cooker and sink. Well, this has three reasons: One is that our kitchen is only a few steps away from there. The second is a tax reason as we have to pay quite some extra taxes for the Annexe if there are cooking facilities. But funnily enough this room has its own bathroom with shower. Library with loo and shower 🙂 🙂 And the third reason is concerning aesthetics or you could call it styling. Books only seemed to us a clearer styling.
Thanks and happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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You have undertaken a challenging project with impressive results. It is a delightful, spacious and inviting room. All you need now is time to read!
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Dear Louis,
you are absolutely right. But we will keep at least two to three hours free for reading and writing daily. We already do this for years, but, of course, not when we were working on this room.
Thanks for commenting.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I. LOVE. THIS. A joy to follow this transformation of creating a stunning library. The white color makes the books stand out, and it just feels good!
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Dear Jennie,
we choose white as it makes the books stand out, exactly as you write. Another reason was space and light. We are very happy with the result 🙂 🙂
Thanks and love
The Fab Four of Cley
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You are most welcome! 😀
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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wonderful creation
of a safe space
for books & people
to mingle 🙂
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Dear David,
exactly, a safe and inspiring space for books and people, ideal for writing and reading 🙂 🙂
We wish you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I LOVE your library – it is simply the most inviting space! I especially appreciate that you organized your shelves in a way that highlights specific books. You will spend hours in this welcoming room. I see that you have comfy chairs and have made room for others to join you. I had to add this quotes by T.S. Eliot: “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man” Books saved me – and continue to do so because they allow me to experience other realities, walk in another’s person’s footsteps, laugh and cry with the authors, and feel inspired to join the grand conversation that transcends, time, space, location. Much love and many hugs coming to my dear friends, the Fab Four of Cley.
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Dear Clanmother Rebecca,
this new library room is already our favourite room in the house.
We love being surrounded by books we like and read. Of course, there are also the books we want to read. We need books to be happy, to see that there are other worlds than ours.
You spotted it, there is place enough for meeting friends. Well, you have to visit again for having a look.
Our dear friend, thanks a lot for your kind words. We send you hugs and kisses xxxx
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hugs and love from one side of the world to the other. We are are connected by hope, courage and tenacity – and it comes from books and reading. Looking forward to our visit.
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We as well.
Books are culture and without it life becomes dangerously unpleasant.
XXXX
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Love it! Peggy and I have about 3000 books hanging around in book cases throughout our house. Every room has some. But my very special room is the library. I always wanted one and Peggy agreed it would be a great idea. It is now my favorite writing room. You guys did a fabulous job! Hats off to you. –Curt
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Thanks a lot, dear Curt 🙂 🙂
We do nearly all of our writing and reading in the library. Books inspire. When our dear Master worked as an author he got his best ideas when he was reading. In these time he quite often wrote in public libraries.
Great that you like our new library room 🙂 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Your library is a beautiful room! I am pleased to see that there is space for more books in the future. I have long thought that our garage would be a good place to build a library but I haven’t yet found the right moment to mention it to my husband. He would prefer that I give away some of my books, but I can’t. I wish you all great joy of your new library!
Best wishes, Clare 🙂 🙂
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Good morning, dear Clare,
it is very essential to leave place for new books to come. That was the problem with the bookshelves in our house, they were all jam packed, no more space for new books.
A garage is an ideal place to convert into a library because of all the free wall space. It’s relatively easy to put up shelves in an empty room. But it needs an insulation as books love a dry climate.
We hope you can persuade your husband to convert the garage in a beautiful library. What you see on the pictures here was originally a double garage. We left the breeze block structure on the walls following Le Corbusier’s style not to hide basic structures.
Thank you very much for your comment.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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My pleasure and thank you, Klausbernd. 🙂 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Great looking room! Best look yet, compared to previous incarnations, IMO.
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Thanks a lot, dear John 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy Sunday
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow! A wonderful transformation. I can imagine how much joy it will give you to have such a library room.
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Dear Sue,
we were astonished during the renovation what a beautiful room we could create there. Quite a lot of ideas we got during the process of renovation. And now it’s the room we love most in our house.
Thanks for your comment and enjoy this Sunday
The Fab Four of Cley
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I love how that happens. We had done lots of renovations and some rooms seem to whisper ideas as we work and if we listen, they become the best rooms.
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Dear Su,
how well said: some rooms whisper and we have to listen during our work. Exactly, that’s it! We experienced the same.
Wishing you a wonderful week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you. I hope you enjoy a wonderful week also.
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This week is time for reading and writing 🙂 🙂
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Bliss 😁
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Sooo schön!
Sooo gemütlich!
So ähnlich sieht auch mein Wohnzimmer/Bücherzimmer aus… 🙂
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Wir wünschen dir so viel Freude mit deinem Bücherzimmer wie wir mit unserem haben.
Herzliche Grüße vom Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Oh ja, das haben wir!
Und die Nesbo-Sammlung, die bei euch steht, haben wir natürlich auch….lach*
Ganz klar.
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Ja, wir lieben Nebø, aber mehr noch Håkon Nesser. Einen hervorragenden Roman von ihm finden wir “Die Perspektive des Gärtners”.
Liebe Grüße von jetzt sonnigem Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Håkon Nesser ist ebenfalls einer meiner Favoriten.
Ich liebe Van Veteeren!!
Großartig finde ich “Das zweite Leben des Herrn Roos”.
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Wir lieben die geradezu philosophischen Reflexionen der Protagonisten bei Håkon Nesser. Besonders Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma sind Fans von Van Veeteren.
Du scheinst auch ein Fan der besonderen Krimis zu sein. Wir sind eigentlich keine Krimileser, aber bei solch literarischen Krimis machen wir eine Ausnahme. Es ist erstaunlich, wie Krimis den heutigen Buchmarkt dominieren.
Hast du Siegfried Kracauers Buch über den Detektivroman gelesen? Er sieht den Krimi als Verbindung zwischen der niederen Ebene der Realität und der höheren philosophischen (bzw. religiösen) Ebene. Der Detektiv ist der klassische Intellektuelle, der durch kluge Kombination ein Problem löst.
Liebe Grüße vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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And of course there’s the famous remark from poet Jorge Luis Borges: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
You’ve done a remarkable job of creating a well-ordered and comfortable library. I hope you have many many hours of good reading!
Regarding the “marking” of special books. I really don’t have any system other than putting them all one shelf. What amazes me the most is, by and large, with my own library, my books are not placed in any particular order, and yet I usually have no problem finding the book I want. Still, I am jealous of that lovely, long wall of books you have there. 🙂
Thank you for sharing!
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Dear Paul,
you’ll find a lot of great sentences concerning books in “The Library of Babel”, a book we really like.
Freud would call that analfixation: We ordered our books concerning different subjects and then within the subject we use an alphabetical order. In very few categories like books from the middle ages we organised our books historically. Besides this we have a library programme helping us finding certain books.
To have long walls with shelves is easy when starting with an empty room. It was more difficult in our other library rooms with some furniture you have to integrate in your shelving system or to cope with inclined walls.
Anyway, we are very happy with this room 🙂 🙂
Thanks for commenting and your great wishes 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a lot of time for reading as well
The Fab Four of Cley
💃👭🚶♂️
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Post Scriptum
I just saw that you are an authors as well. So it might interest you that before I retired my library was ordered and re-ordered following the books and film-scripts I was writing.
Under the grey cupboard you find 3 shelves with nearly all the books of mine which were published. Vain?
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Oh, not vain…not at all…more like well-deserved pride! 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
Klausbernd
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To the Fab Four,
What a great post! I LOVE your library and how you transformed that room to hold the collection of books so beautifully. When I look at it, I get energized and relaxed all at the same time. White is a good color for it.
What kind of books do you collect?
Thanks for this—I enjoyed it very much.
Blessings, Debbie
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Good afternoon, dear Debbie,
thank you very much for liking our new library room 🙂 🙂 and your kind words.
What books we collect:
1. Scandinavian authors
2. books about the North and polar regions – especially logs and history of exploration
3. Classics in German, Norwegian, English, and Swedish
4. books about colour and art (that includes Dina’s collection of books about photography)
But we also have quite some shelves filled with nautical books, especially piracy. We love to find first and signed editions.
Wishing you a wonderful week to come
The Fab Four of Cley
💃👭🚶♂️
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Sehr sehr hübsch. Eine Klause des Geistes, wenn es gelingt, in die Bücher hinein zu wandern und diese zurück wandernd in uns hinein. Wo sonst gibt es den Widerhall eigener Gedanken oder die Ernte fremder Gedanken, als in den Büchern, mit denen wir uns umstellen.
Liebe Grüße hinauf zum kleinen Dorf am Meer.
Achim
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Danke, lieber Achim 🙂 🙂
Bücher inspirieren uns, sie strahlen eine Denklustigkeit aus. Damit sie Platz haben, fein zu strahlen, haben wir ihnen diesen Ort eingerichtet. Die Gedanken Fremder triggern eigene Gedanken. So ist dies unser idealer Platz zum Schreiben.
Mit lieben Grüßen in die Stadt der Bächle
The Fab Four of Cley
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Beats my collection of wooden wine boxes hands down… 😉 They were very practical in my moving days – just pîck them up and put them in the van… and in the new place make new combinations… 😀
Liebe Grüsse!
Nil
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Dear Nil,
during my student times I had bookshelves made of wooden boxes as well. Very practical! Now we are settled down and surrounding us with ‘proper’ bookshelves. That’s bourgeoisification, isn’t it? We can’t escape this with age 😉
Auch dir liebe Grüße
The Fab Four of Cley
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Das ist eine sehr schöne Bibliothek geworden, ein gar feiner Platz, um zu schmökern und sich dabei wohl zu fühlen…
Ich bin auch schon oft gefragt worden, warum ich mir das antue, so viele Bücher anzuhäufen. 😉 Ich kann nicht anders, ich muss das ganz einfach tun. Das gehört zu meinem Leben wie Essen, Trinken, Schlafen, Atmen.
Herzliche Grüße!
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Liebe Freidenkerin,
uns geht es genauso. Dieses Bücheransammeln ist eine Sucht, der keine Therapie gewachsen ist. Wie du benötigen wir Bücher um uns herum, um uns wohl zu fühlen.
Weiterhin frohes Büchersammeln wünschen dir
The Fab Four of Cley
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Klausbernd, your library is a place I would like to stay overnight and let all the books speak to me!
As a former bookseller in my past, I am still in love with books, although coming to the USA, 29 years ago I changed my career to become a professional photographer, books are still my passion; somehow those two go together in a way.
I love the fact that you did all the renovations yourself, because that makes it really yourself and adds a special spirit to your library. Enjoy all the wonderful reading hours and the calmness of your new room. May the spirits of books are always with you All of you.
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Good morning, dear Cornelia,
you wouldn’t believe it I was a bookseller as well. I had a two bookshops in Cologne after I came back from Montreal and started my career as a writer.
Yes, photography and reading as well as writing go very well together. The writer helps the photographer to become aware why she or he takes that pictures and why from this perspective. So Siri 🙂 and me help Dina to find her style or to say it with Foucault to find her ideology. Whereas Dina and Selma 🙂 help Siri 🙂 and me not to loose grounding by getting too abstract. We love our discussions about the different views of what we call reality as a photographer and as a writer.
You are right, it gives this library room a special atmosphere that we did all by ourselves, it’s 100% us with all this little imperfections. We feel very well in this room. We didn’t foresee that our library has not only become a room for reading and writing but for entertaining guests as well.
Thank you for kind wishes 🙂 🙂 We wish you a wonderful week
The Fab Four of Cley
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If you are in Europe come around and stay a night in our library. You are VERY welcome!
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Well done for creating the space yourselves, with such hard work. Now you have a wonderful room to enjoy every day, surrounded by the things you love the most.
As always, I am impressed with the wonderful photos, the interesting text and quotes. But now I have your wonderful library to impress me to.
Love from Beetley, Pete and Ollie. X
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Hi, dear Pete,
aren’t you curious to see this room and not only a picture of this room? Isn’t it time to come around and have a look?
Thanks a lot for your kind words. Yes, it was quite hard work and now we are happy that it is (more or less) done. We are already enjoying our library very much.
Love from the little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a wonderful start to my morning and the new week. I absolutely love this transformation of the room. Well invested effort and money!!
A house that has a library in it has a soul. – Plato.
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Dear Ann,
thank you so much! 🙂 🙂
It took us a fortnight to create this room, well, working about ten hours daily. We are so happy that it’s more or less done. We very much enjoy this room now for reading and writing 🙂 🙂
Thanks for the Plato-quote!
Wishing you a great week
The Fab Four of Cley
💃👭🚶♂️
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WOW!! I can’t believe this is the room where I have spent so many nights during the past 20 years or more! Congratulations, Fab Four, this is amazing! 🙂
But; surely this is only a small part of your collection of books? You must have had a system for getting those books into the new room, I suppose, it can’t be only the surplus, the piles on top. 😉 I recognise many Scandinavian authors here, art and photography.
Anyway, it looks smashing, arty and very different to anything I know from Rhu Sila.
Now very much looking forward to seeing it soon with my own eyes.
Klem,
Per Magnus x
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Our dear Nordic Friend,
well, these are a bit less than 10% of all our books.
We thought about a system first. Which categories we’ll move onto the new shelves and what effect would that have for our overflowing shelves in the house. After a plan we moved from the house
1. all books about the Arctic and Antarctic
2. Explorers polar regions and in generell
3. art including photography and colour
4. Scandinavian, Finnish, Icelandic, Innuit and Chukchi literature
5. Biografies
6. our Mastercher’s books
Now the German, English and American literatures don’t have this crowded shelves any longer and crime and horror has also more space.
Indeed, it makes quite a difference to the rest of the house. There we made some changes too. You have to come and see.
Lots of love
KLEM
The Fab Four of Cley
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XXXX
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I honestly can’t believe this is the same room where I have spent so many nights as a guest of yours! Amazing, my dear friends. Congratulations! 🙂 Your new library looks very arty and classy, cosy and inviting. Up til now I have always regarded Rhu Sila as a library, you have books everywhere. Obviously we are only viewing a fraction of your books on the photos here. Moving a part of a library must have been an interesting job for the four of you. 🙂
Now I’m very much looking forward to having a private viewing.
Take care. See you soon.
Klem
Per Magnus
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What a change – we are amazed as well
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Oh, I could live in that room. Surrounded by books! I am green with jealousy.
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… don’t!
We love this room and Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma moved already in.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow, es ist so schön geworden! Atemberaubend!
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Wir haben uns auch sooooo viel Mühe damit gemacht und jetzt sind wir froh und glücklich.
Liebe Grüße vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Happy reading–wonderfully done!
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Thank you very VERY much, dear Bette 🙂 🙂
Our favourite room now. Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma moved in already.
Warm greetings to Maine from the North Norfolk coast
The Fab Four of Cley
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Oh, I admire your hardwork and enthusiasm in creating such a beautiful library. I love collecting books too, wish to have a similar library someday ! Happy Reading 🙂 ❤
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Dear Nehal,
you have to see that our library has grown over nearly 50 years. Dina and, of course, our Bookfayries are booklovers and our dear Master studied Germanic literature and philosophy and started collecting books more or less systematically from his university times onwards. In a way, we Fab Four are bound together by books or one could say we are fictional, Dina and Selma produce pictures and our Master wrote fiction. But books need space and resist moving by being horribly heavy.
Thanks and have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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That’s a heaven. Wish I can visit it some day!
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You are very welcome.
We are just busy marking all our first editions, signed copies and books with a dedication of the authors. As our beloved Master being an author he exchanges books with other authors – signed or even with dedication, of course.
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Dear friends,
I have commented twice today, but somehow my comment went off and never appeared. Can you please have a look in your spam folder?
Have a lovely evening,
klem
Per Magnus x
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Oh dear, I just unspammed you, Per Magnus. I have no idea how this happened. Thank you so much for commenting. 🙂
See you soon!
Klem, Hanne x
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We answered a couple of comments above.
Love
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Heel knap en functioneel
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Yes, we love the Bauhaus-style – nevertheless it’s quite different to the rest of our house.
Thanks and wishing you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Hallo Ihr Lieben,
da habt Ihr aber wirklich eine Menge Arbeit reingesteckt! Respekt, Respekt! Aber es ist Euch auch ganz fantastisch gelungen. Mir gefaellt vor Allem die Sitzgruppe um den Tisch und der Tisch selber. 🙂
Apropos Buecher: vor Kurzem gab es in einem linguistischen Newspetter, den ich abonniert habe, Woerter, die mit Buechern zu tun haben. Ich dachte da sofort an Euch. Ihr koennt ja mal hier reinschauen:
This week’s theme: Words related to books
This week’s words:
bibliotaph [https://wordsmith.org/words/bibliotaph.html]
bouquiniste [https://wordsmith.org/words/bouquiniste.html]
florilegium {https://wordsmith.org/words/florilegium.html]
bibliolater [https://wordsmith.org/words/bibliolater.html]
pandect [https://wordsmith.org/words/pandect.html]
Hoffentlich funktionieren die Links. Wenn nicht, dann geht es vielleicht ueber die Webseite:
https://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html
Liebe Gruesse ins kleine Dorf am grossen Meer, und froehliches Schmoekern in der neuen Bibliothek,
Pit
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Guten Morgen, lieber Pit,
habe gaaaaanz herzlichen Dank für die Links, die funktionieren, und deinen Kommentar 🙂 🙂
Ja, unser neuer Bücherraum ist eine reine Freude. Aber du glaubst es kaum, wir sind immer noch dabei, unsere Bücher sinnvoll zu ordnen. Naja, die einen haben Kinder, die anderen Bücher 😉 Aber jetzt muss ich mich von den Büchern losreißen und die Hecke schneiden. Da wir keinen Gärtner mehr haben, müssen wir uns um die Garten kümmern, was allerdings gut ist, sonst würden wir zu Stubenhockern.
Liebe Grüße an dich und Mary
The Fab Four of Cley
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Übrigens Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma sind in die Bibliothek eingezogen.
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Liebe Dina,
Du bis also abtruenning geworden und hast Dir eine Fuji angeschafft? Na so was! 😀 Hattest Du duer eine Spiegellose mal an die Nikon Z-Serie gedacht?
Ich bin gespannt darauf, wie Dir die Fuji gefaellt.
Liebe Gruesse, und mach’s gut,
Pit
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Scheint schwierig zu sein, wie ich am Rande mitbekomme. Aber Dina wird dir wohl dazu etwas schreiben.
Hab’s fein
Klausbernd 🙂
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Lieber Pit,
ja, ich habe an einer spiegellosen Nikon gedacht, jedoch habe ich sehr viele Fotografen hier in meinem Umfeld die auf Fuji schwören. Die Entscheidung fiel bei einem Vortrag einer Landschaftsfotografin in unserem Kameraklub. Zum Schluß sagte sie, ich habe zwei Kamerasets; eine Nikon D810 für zu Hause und eine Fuji XT wenn ich verreise, beide Sets mit entsprechenden Objektiven. Die Fuji ist viel leichter. Wie habe ich unterm Gewicht der kompletten Nikon- Ausstattung gelitten…
Her im Garten benutze ich gerne die Nikon und auch wenn ich mit dem Auto fahre ebenso. LR ist nicht optimal für Fuji, die Landschaftsaufnahmen mit der Nikon gefallen mir bis jetzt besser wegen der besseren Bildbearbeitungsmöglichkeiten.
Verzeih mir bitte die späte Antwort, wir waren sehr mit Renovieren beschäftigt und sind immer noch nicht ganz fertig.
Jetzt muss ich geschwind alles vorbereiten für unsere Gäste heute Abend.
Sei lieb gegrüßt du und Mary,
Hanne-Dina x
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What a marvellous space! You have no doubt heard of shed envy (a condition that afflicts the male of the species specifically), well now I have annex envy – or should I say library envy. I must come and visit soon and perhaps make a modest ritual offering to this literary shrine. Warm greetings from Norwich. Laurence
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Dear Laurence,
oh dear, shed-annex-library envy … Which remedy will help against it?
Yes, you have to come for a visit and to have a look at our book-shrine. You know, you are VERY welcome.
The disadvantage is that our gardener has gone. So we have care for our garden and ground by ourselves. But in a way that’s good otherwise we would turn into couch potatoes. Today we have to cut one of our long hedges – big action!
We hope to see you soon.
Warm greetings from the sea
The Fab Four of Cley
💃🚶♂️👭
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What a beautiful room in which to read and think and spend time. It certainly looks like it was worth all the hard work.
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Good morning,
yes, it was worth all the work and we are very happy now 🙂 🙂 It became the ideal room in our house to read, to think and to write.
Thanks and wishing you a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
💃🚶♂️👭
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Stunning home library!📚
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Thanks for liking our new library room 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
💃🚶♂️👭
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Wunderwunderwundervoll! Statt Bed and Breakfast:
Books and Books!!
Habe mich in beiden “former rooms” sooooooo wohl gefühlt, wie zuhause…
But: Now it is done, the room has its true purpose, I guess…
Jetzt könnt Ihr Euch beim Touristenamt in Cley anmelden.
Eure Homebiblio wird dann zu einer der Hauptaktraktionen von Cley werden, jede Menge Visitors.
Öffnungszeiten und Eintrittsgebühren klar machen.
Dann könntet Ihr sooooo viele Bücher dazu kaufen und immer aktuell sein…
Eure Pia
Plan B: Ihr genießt, was Ihr Euch geschaffen habt und wer Euch findet, mit…
Freunde werden ja wahrscheinlich freiwillig beitragen, Bücherliebhaber
Wonderful Reading-Time!
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Guten Morgen, liebe Pia,
heute ist ein echtes Lesewetter, leichter Nieselregen aus mittelgrauem Himmel. Da freut sich der Garten 🙂
Wir genießen unseren Bibliotheksraum auch ohne Besucher. Allerdings abends empfangen wir hier Besucher für literarische Gespräche mit kleinen Häppchen und Drinks.
Das ist ja nur ein kleiner Teil unserer Bibliothek, der Teil, der dem Norden und der Kunst gewidmet ist. Übrigens sind wir immer noch zugange, die Bücher dort systematisch zu ordnen. Das wird heute hoffentlich abgeschlossen. Die Bücher stellen wir so ein, dass es Lücken für neue Werke gibt und nicht gleich wieder Bücher vor und auf Büchern stehen und liegen. Das Einstellen dauert auch deswegen so lange, da viele Bücher uns verführen, sie aufzuschlagen und in ihnen zu blättern.
B&B > books and books, das ist genial! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Mit lieben Grüßen aus Cley und hab’ ein feines Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
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What an absolutely spectacular room! So beautiful and so peaceful; a wonderful place to escape the chaos of the day! Five years ago, my husband and I sold our home and all our belongings (after giving our kids the chance to take what they wanted) and my only regret is I miss my books, my flowers and my dog! Thank you for sharing!
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Dear Jane,
we love our new library room very much 🙂 🙂
We can’t imagine to downsize. That would be a great drama. We cannot move because a little more than 10.000 books are holding us in our home. We don’t mind but enjoy it.
We can very well imagine how you regret giving away your books and leaving your plants behind. We love gardening as well.
Thanks for commenting. Wishing you a great holiday
The Fab Four of Cley
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Great renovation ~ the room does look bigger (thanks for the tip on how white does this), and mostly the room looks so relaxing and a perfect place to sit down and find something to read. Great idea taking this space to fulfill something even more important, and that is support for your reading habits. Great quote, “That’s the shadow side of collecting, it needs space…” Since I rarely back in my home in Seattle, I’ve actually had to discard many things I held dear and collected in the past and then surprisingly found out how easy it was to let them go…although letting go of books, which I haven’t done, I think would be difficult. Cheers to a great day.
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Good morning, dear Dalo,
it’s great having a light and spacious room for reading and writing. Having books around is inspiring.
Letting go of our book collection would be hard. One of the basic teachings of Buddha is “don’t attached”. Oh dear, we are very much attached to our books. Well, enlightenment comes later …
Thanks for your comment and have a great day
The Fab Four of Cley
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Nun ist unser Raum zwar weiß geworden, aber Weiß lässt auch immer Schwarz anklingen. Wer an der Symbolik und Wirkung der Farbe Schwarz interessiert ist, der kann kommenden Samstag unseren Master dazu hören. Es ist ein Gespräch mit dem Moderator Thilo Jahn im Deutschlandfunk (Sendung “Grünstreifen”, ab 14:10h).
Viel Spaß beim Hören 🙂 🙂
Übrigens hatten wir zuerst überlegt, schwarze Bücherregale zu kaufen, aber der harte Kontrast zum Weiß des übrigen Zimmers hätte nicht die Ruhe erzeugt wie Weiß mit hellen Grautonabstufungen.
Liebe Grüße aus dem regnerischen Cley next the Sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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Unsere deutschen Leser finden weitere Infos zu den unbunten Farben Weiß und Schwarz in folgenden Büchern unseres Masters
* Das große Buch der Farben (Königsfurt-Urania)
* Farben (Droemer-Knaur Tb.)
* Das Geheimnis der Farbe Weiß (Fischer Media Vlg. und Vlg. Bruno Martin – vergriffen, nur noch über uns zu beziehen)
* Das Geheimnis der Farbe Schwarz (Fischer Media Vlg. und Vlg. Bruno Martin – vergriffen, nur noch über uns zu beziehen)
* Schwarz – Weiß (Goldmann Vlg. – vergriffen)
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What a great job you all did. Your book collection is impressive and the library looks so comfortable for browsing and reading. I like your colour scheme. It’s so light and airy looking.
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Thank you very much for your kind words 🙂 🙂
This new library room in our house is ideal for reading and writing. We are just sitting there writing this answer. It’s the lightest room in our house overlooking the front garden and drive. We love it 🙂 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Gorgeous room, I’ve put together ikea furniture before hehe. Enjoy your new relaxation space.
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Good afternoon, dear Charlotte,
thanks for liking our new library room and for your comment. We love Ikea because of its clear Scandinavian design, no pompous big furniture with old fashioned decorations.
It’s our most used room now.
Wishing you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I can see you’ve been very busy as a 4-member team creating your beautiful space. You must be so happy with the job-well-done! My granddaughter and I assembled her Ikea dressers and I now know why I didn’t choose furniture building as a career! I too transitioned fully from my beloved Nikon equipment to the Fuji (mine is a bit older, an X-T2). It takes a bit of work to make the change and learn the new system but I truly love it and hope by now you do too Hanne. Hope to see more of you now that the room is finished!
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Good afternoon, dear Tina,
putting up this Ikea-shelves took much longer than expected. We wouldn’t be the right folks for furniture building neither. Now we are very happy with our new library room and spend most of our time in there.
Hanne-Dina will write about her life with the new camera – it seems to be quite a difference changing from Nikon to Fuji.
We wish you a great week
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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It looks so inviting! We have hundreds of books in the downstairs living room on special, wide shelves. But running out of space is the main reason I now own a Kindle or three!
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Dear Lady Fi,
we are quite old fashioned loving real books we can touch. Of course, place is aways a problem collecting books. But we don’t like reading on a screen. We have a neighbour who loves her Kindle. She can’t understand that we don’t have one. Maybe one day we’ll have a Kindle as well, who knows?
Thank you very much for commenting.
Wishing you a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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was ich super finde: es gibt noch Platz in den Regalen!
Vielleicht wird ja das Buch geschrieben “Dumm geboren – und dann ganz viel getanzt”, das Regal dafür hätte ich schon ausgespät, aber wahrscheinlich ist bis zum Erscheinungsdatum schon wieder alles belegt bei Euch!
Herzliche und sonnige Grüße an die Vogelküste
Grüße ans Meer und habt es schön!
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Liebe Pia,
du wirst dich wundern, wir haben nun in all unseren Bibliotheksräumen etwas Platz in den Regalen für Neuerwerbungen gelassen. Aber du hast schon Recht, die Lücken werden sich viel zu schnell wieder füllen.
Welchen Platz hast du dir denn für “Dumm geboren – und dann ganz viel getanzt” ausgeguckt? Sollen wir den für dich mit einem Stellvertreter wie in öffentlichen Bibliotheken reservieren?
Hier ist es seit einigen Tagen hochsommerlich. So überraschten uns Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma gerade, indem sie unseren Volvo nicht nur wuschen und polierten, sondern sogar aussaugten. Das machten sie wohl spekulierend auf FayrieTaler Taschengeld, denn sie wollen sich von Philip Pullman viele Bücher kaufen, nachdem sie mit roten Bäckchen und Glitzeraugen “La Belle Sauvage” gelesen haben. Pullman ist übrigens fast genau 1 Monat älter als Masterchen. Er ist in Norwich geboren. “So hat er viel mit uns zu tun!” meinten die liebklugen Buchfeen.
Mit lieben Grüßen an dich und deine Tanzmäuschen
The Fab Four of Cley
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Das sind clevere Buchfeen! Die Frage beantworte ich erst nach dem 26.5. Muss erst noch Anna Karenina des Bayerischen Staatsballetts schauen….Jonas und seine Freunde werden als Statisten auftreten, bin schon gespannt…
Was auch spannend war: ein polnischer Mann klingelte bei einem singenden Freund und brachte ihm eine alte goethische Ausgabe mit u.a. “Der Sänger”.
Jetzt bringe ich meine Yogamatten für 3 Tage ins Theater, Junges Theater braucht sie…man hilft doch gern…
Ich liebe saubere aufgeräumte frisch gewaschene Autos…
Aber gerade keine Zeit! Liebdrücker von Pia
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Liebe Pia,
viel Spaß bei Anna Karenina. Wir wussten gar nicht, dass es diesen Roman auch als Ballett gibt.
Die Ballade “Der Sänger” stammt aus Goethes Roman “Wilhelm Meister”. Wir lasen den Text in der Schule.
Ganz liebe Grüße aus dem sommerlichen Cley
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Echt? Stand das im Lehrplan?
Dr. Brode damals am Max Planck Gymmi wäre begeistert gewesen. Er sagte: Eigentlich spreche ich nicht mit Menschen, die nicht mindestens 2000 Bücher gelesen haben.
Seine Schüler waren ihm ein Graus, aber er bemühte sich. Wir waren zusammen in Brasilien, Schüleraustausch.
Mein Bruder und ich waren damals im Schultheater Ensemble.
Z.B. führten wir “Picknick im Felde” auf, Oil und Pia als Zepo und Zapo…irgendwie bin ich Frau Hetterich gerade sehr dankbar…
Schönes Wochenende für Euch! Viel Freude im Garten!
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Der Tippfehler ist wahrscheinlich geschehen, weil mein Bruder Oli Olivenöl liebt….
So, jetzt kümmere ich mich um den englischen Rasen….(hmm)…
Der Odenwälder Rasen wollte nicht gemäht werden, überall Sonne, aber nicht über dem Himmel von Wald-Michelbach….
Kann man dann seine Isomatte und den Schlafsack mitbringen, wenn man bei Euch Leseurlaub machen möchte?
Travel and Read?
Es gab noch diese Flyer…erinnert Ihr Euch? Entsorgen?
Herzliche Grüße von Pia
Übrigens hafte ich an nichts, ein Drama, habe so oft keine Lust, mich um “meine Sachen” zu kümmern, aufräumen, sauber machen, betanken, verwalten, austauschen, fürchterlich, habt Ihr Tipps? Was sagt das Enneagramm, wo hänge ich fest???
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Guten Morgen, liebe Pia,
wir waren gestern den halben Tag am Blakeney Point in wunderbarer Natur, um als freiwillige “Little Tern Warden” die brütenden kleinen Seeschwalben zu schützen. Durch das diffuse Licht herrschte eine besondere Stimmung. Dina liebt es, bei solchen Lichtverhältnissen zu fotografieren.
Ich glaube, dieser Dr. Brode hat da etwas missverstanden. Es geht weniger darum, wie viele Bücher man gelesen hat, sondern darum, wie viele Gedanken man sich machte.
Meine Mutter war so wie du, liebe Pia, sie fand auch anderes wichtiger als sich um die Ordnung im Haus zu kümmern. Das kommt häufig bei kreativen Menschen vor. Sie sind entweder äußerst klar organisiert oder eher `schlampig´. Das ist typisch für die Verhaltensweise vom Enneagramm-Typ 4.
Du kannst gerne bei uns für einen Leseurlaub vorbeikommen 🙂 🙂 Wir haben ein wunderschönes, wenn auch kleines, Gartenhaus im hinteren Garten, in dem eine Person gemütlich übernachten kann. Über dem Eingang steht Shakespeares Satz
“Hand in hand with fairy grace will we sing and bless this place”
Das gefällt dir doch sicher.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ja, das ist der angemessene Ort um in die Sterne über Cley zu schauen! Sehr verlockend…
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Isn’t it?
Wir streichen gerade die Außentüre und die Holzverkleidung draußen. Jetzt ist Pause, damit die Untergrundfarbe trocknen kann. Bei dem schönen Wetter trocknet glücklicher Weise die Farbe schnell. Hier ist gerade ein langes Wochenende. Montag ist Bankholiday.
Liebe Grüße aus Cley
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Faszinierend! Und was gibt´s da zu feiern?
Montags auch noch ausschlafen?
Heute nachmittag gehe ich mit Tante Iris und Cousine Larissa in die Eisdiele, vor “Anna Karenina”. Bei ihnen wohnte ich damals in Moskau.
Das hat sich zufällig ergeben und gerade dachte ich: Leben ist konkret…das stimmt wohl…..
Meine Mama ist in Bad Schwalbach geboren und deshalb: Grüße an die Schwalben, ganz herzliche!
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Liebe Pia,
in UK sind alle Feiertage montags mit der Ausnahme von Weihnachten. England ist säkular, das ist ganz einfach End of May Bank Holiday.
Hanne-Dina besucht heute nachmittag die kleinen Seeschwalben und wird sie von dir grüßen. Ich werde einkaufen gehen, denn nun sind wir im Renovierungsmodus, d.h. nun kommt das Wohnzimmer oder der Drawing Room, wie der Engländer sagt, dran. Da müssen Farben, Pinsel, Folie und was nicht alles gekauft werden.
Dir wünschen wir einen schönen Sonntag
Unser liebes Masterchen war auch öfters in Moskau, als er damals in Finnland lebte. Ihn hat’s dort gut gefallen. An den Wochenenden fuhr er jedoch öfters nach Petersburg, was näher war und wo er Freunde hatte.
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1990, Pia sitzt im Bolschoi Theater, Loge, Grigorowitsch neben ihr, er hat Veilchen gekauft, die wir dann bald auf die Bühne zur großartigen Maja Pl. werfen werden…
Unten, in der Jury, Konstanze Vernon…sie ist die Tochter von Herzfeld….
Konstanze hätte stolz auf ihre Truppe sein können, wäre sie am Wochenende im Pfalzbautheater dabei gewesen.
Trotzdem, manche sind in der Pause gegangen, Musik nicht modern genug, iiiihhh Ballett, da ist gar niemand nackt, wie in den naturalistischen Stücken, die man lieber sehen möchte – oder- ach, es ist halt nicht Schwanensee, zu schwer, so düster…aber, diese Körperbeherrschung, so leichtfüßig….
Hinter mir saß eine: ” Ich sitze lieber vorne, ich will die Schminke sehen und den Schweiß!” …???…
Manche grübelten, wer jetzt der/die Böse ist, Anna oder ihr Mann oder wer, einer muss doch der Böse sein, dass alles irgendwie schief geht. Wer will schon, dass am Ende der Sohn sehen muss, wie seine vergiftete Mutter am Boden liegt?!
Jetzt höre ich Tolstoi-Sendungen auf youtube.
Einer seiner Aussagen: Lobt mich nicht, vielleicht sind 1 bis 2 Sätze dabei gewesen, in denen das “Göttliche” sich durch mich ausdrücken konnte, dafür behaltet mich in Erinnerung, aber lobt mich nicht für das, was ich als Mensch bin.
So ähnlich hat er das vielleicht gesagt…
Ich kann das gar nicht aussprechen, ohne dass mir die Tränen in die Augen schießen. Ich muss mal zum Arzt!
So, liebe Cleyer, klasse eure Bibliothek, im Schweiße eures Angesichts selber gebaut, 1000 Gummipunkte dafür!!!
Suuuuuuper!!! Lob tut gut, finde ich, vor allem ernst gemeintes…und gute Kritik und Korrekturen, die helfen!
Und manchmal auch ein schlichtes: das war nix!
Falls jemals das Dumm-Tanzen-Buch geschrieben wird, wäre der Platz in eurem zuhause vollkomemn egal.
Bei mir liegen wichtige Bücher sogar am stillen Örtchen…
Herzliche Grüße von Pia
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Guten Tag, liebe Pia,
ach du lieber Himmel, jetzt bekam die liebe Dina die Idee, auch unser Wohnzimmer zu renovieren. Da werden dann ab morgen die Pinsel geschwungen. Da werden ebenfalls die Buchregale weiß oder grau gestrichen. Dann hat aber unser Masterchen vom Renovieren mehr als genug.
Wenn man Ballett sehen wollte, fuhr man bei uns nach Wuppertal zu Pina Bausch. Sie hatte eine große Fangemeinde. Pia und Pina unterscheidet ja nur ein n 😉
Der gute Tolstoi war ja sehr christlich. Die schöne Lou besuchte ihn einst mit ihrem Freund Rilke. Tolstoi und Rilke konnten sich nicht gerade gut leiden. Tolstoi war down to earth und Rilke völlig ungeerdet. Das konnte nicht gut gehen.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom sommerlichen Meer
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Na gut, als Ballerina berührt man ja wenigstens noch mit dem großen Zeh die Erde, wobei es bei mir 3 Zehen sind zum Glück, breitere Standfläche….
Heute höre ich Mendelssohn-Bartholdy beim Bügeln und Aufräumen.
In der Pfalz sagt man in manchen Momenten: Alder nääää!
Könnte brüllen wie ein Hirsch, buddhistische Lachtränen vergeuden…(lachen ist ja auch manchmal anstrengend)
Seid Ihr fertig mit dem Renovieren?
Ich wünsche Euch einen wundervollen Sonntag, gibt´s Pfingstmontag? Oder lassen sie den weg…
Alles Liebe von Pia
Ich liebe Bücher!!!
Die liebe Pina!!! In einem Interview sagte sie: Ich wahr selbst verwundert, dass manche plötzlich die Türen schlugen beim Verlassen des Theaters. Wir wollten gar niemanden verägern.
Humor behalten, alles andere kann weg?
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Liebe Pia,
wir sind fertig mit dem Renovieren und hatten bis vorgestern noch Diskussionen über die Einrichtung. Zum Glück half uns ein Freund, der professioneller Innenarchitekt war. Sein Geschmack trifft den unsrigen, da er lange in Japan lebte und auch den Minimalismus liebt.
Ansonsten beschäftigen wir uns gerade intensiv mit Farbe, mit Farbschemata und Farbwirkung sowohl bei Flächenfarben – bei unserer Wohnzimmergestaltung – als auch mit Lichtfarben für Dinas Fotopräsentation ihrer Bilder im Netz. Wir sind immer wieder erstaunt, wie unterschiedlich Flächen- und Lichtfarben wirken.
Heute arbeiteten wir jedoch den ganzen Tag im Garten, hauptsächlich Topiari, das ist der Formschnitt bei Bäumen und Büschen. Unser Gärtner war Spezialist für Topiari und nun versuchen wir emsig, die elegante Gartengestaltung aufrecht zu erhalten.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy liebte wie wir die Hebriden, denen er ja ein musikalisches Denkmal errichtete. Wir hören ihn auch gerne.
Mit lieben Grüßen von der sommerlichen Küste Norfolks
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Amazing. I like to be surrounded by books.
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Hi, dear Rabirius,
to be surrounded by books creates a very inspiring atmosphere. We love it.
Wishing you a wonderful Sunday
The Fab Four of Cley
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Beautiful library! Well done!
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Hi Steph,
thanks for liking our new library room. We love it very much so that we spend most of our time in there.
Wishing you a happy week
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Das ist ja mal ein Artikel!
Wohlgerundet und etwas zum Thema machend, womit wir alle befasst sind.
Ich selbst bin ja auch ein Büchernarr, aber es gibt da noch weit ausschweifentere.
Ein Freund von mir, der seit 35 Jahren in Würzburg lebt, musste wegn der Übergabe an einen neune Mietherren seine Wohnung vorzeigen. Und das war schwierig, weil die ganze Wohnung eine einzige Ablage von Büchern, Notizen, Zeitungsausschnitten und dergleichen war.
Nun, er konnte einiges entsorgen – manche Themen aus 35 Jahren Wissensbegierfrönerei konnten dann doch das Zeitliche segnen – der Rest lies sich so ordnen/zuordnen, daß die Wohnung begehbar war.
Ich hatte auch ein wenig mitgeholfen und einige Items in den schmalen Keller geschafft.
Da ich in 2 Wohnungen lebe, habe ich aktuelle Bücher, also frisch gekaufte, auf zwei Stabeln liegen. Ich kennzeichne das Kaufdatum, auch das Anlesedatum und womöglich das Endedatum in jedes Buch.
Ein extra Regal fasst das gerade Gelesen Habende.
Dennoch lese ich wohl nicht mehr als 20 – 25 Bücher im Jahr. Ich bin da einfach nicht zu hart.
Und dennoch liebe ich Bücher.
Und wer enstaubt eure Reagle? Nach welchem System geht ihr da vor?
Es ist auch wichtig, sich immer wieder die Einordnung der Bücher zu vergegenwärtigen.
Herleihen von Büchern mag ich nicht mehr so. Mir fehlt ein Morandi und mir fehlt die Autobiographie eines amerikanischen Popart-Künstlers, die ich sehr mochte.
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Lieber Gerhard,
wir sind Vielleser. Unser Masterchen liest so etwa 4 Bücher in der Woche und Dinalein liest auch so einiges weg. Damit wir das Gelesene behalten, führen wir ein Lesetagebuch, in das wir alle gelesenen Bücher eintragen mit 4 bis 5 Sätzen dazu. Damit wir bestimmte Bücher schnell finden, verwalten wir unsere Bibliothek mit einem Bibliotheksprogramm, in das wir jedes Buch eingeben und welchem Zimmer auf welchem Regal es sich befindet. Oh dear, trotz allem sind wir jedoch Banausen, die ihre Bücher nur selten richtig abstauben. Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma gehen zur Taschengeldaufbesserung mit dem Sauger regelmäßig über die Bücherreihen.
Das Systematisieren der Bücher verlangt ständig nach Nachbesserung, so fanden wir heute eine Biographie von Agatha Christie neben ihren Büchern stehen statt unter Biographien. Wir haben Sachgruppen. Innerhalb der Sachgruppen ordnen wir alphabetisch nach dem Autorennamen, außer bei Biographien, die wir nach den Personen alphabetisch ordnen, deren Biographie das ist. Obwohl unsere Bibliothek eine Arbeitsbibliothek ist, legen wir dennoch Wert darauf, möglichst Erstausgaben zu bekommen. Erstausgaben, vom Autor signierte und uns gewidmete Bücher sind mit speziellen Lesezeichen gekennzeichnet, die unsere lieben Buchfeen fabrizierten.
Auch wir leihen keine Bücher aus nach dem Zitat von Oskar Kokoschka: “Bücher sind beleidigt, wenn man sie verleiht. Deshalb kehren verleihte Bücher nicht mehr zurück” (muss das nicht `verliehene´ heißen? Naja, der war ja Österreicher).
Mit lieben Grüßen von unserer Bücherwelt
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4 Bücher die Woche? Wie soll das gehen? 🙂
Neben all dem anderen, was so anliegt?
Ich kann nur staunen 🙂
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Das ist gar nicht so zeitaufwändig, wie es sich anhört. Ich lese 2 bis 3 Stunden pro Tag und beim Schnitt von 85 gelesene Seiten pro Stunden (und bei bei manchen Büchern mehr) macht das bereits 170 bis 255 Seiten pro Tag. Sonst liegt bei uns nicht so viel an außer Gartenarbeit, die ein schöner Ausgleich ist, und das Haus in Ordnung und sauber zu halten. Und wenn wir dann noch Zeit haben, wird gebloggt 😉
Dieses Lesen ist für mich eine Routine, es ist fast so wie Essen und Trinken. Ich habe zumindest das Gefühl, es zu benötigen. Vielleicht sollte ich noch zum Abschluss sagen, dass es Teil meiner ersten Arbeit war, Schnelllesen zu lernen. Zuerst lehnte ich es ab, aber dann merkte ich schnell, dass man einen besseren Überblick über den Text bekommt und ihn zugleich besser behält. Besonders bei schwierigen Texten z.B. Kant, Hegel und Marx hat das Schnelllesen den großen Vorteil, dass man die langen Sätze sogleich im Überblick und Zusammenhang mit einem Blick sieht. Was jedoch nicht heißt, dass ich bei einigen wenigen Büchern auch langsames Genusslesen wähle. Da geht es mir um die Berauschung am Stil.
Mit herzlichen Grüßen vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
Klausbernd 🙂
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Was für ein Verfahren liegt dem Schnelllesen zugrunde? Gibt es da unterschiedliche Methoden?
Gruß
Gerhard
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Lieber Gerhard,
der Trick bei allen Schnelllesemethoden ist, dass man beim Lesen nicht den gelesenen Text innerlich mitspricht. Dieses Mitsprechen verlangsamt die Lesegeschwindigkeit enorm.
Grundsätzlich gibt es 2 Methoden. Bei der einen nimmt man sozusagen die Zeilen abwechselnd vor und rückwärts wahr, bei der anderen blickt man etwa eine viertel oder halbe Seite im Ganzen an. Ich benutze die zweite Methode. Du nimmst also ganze Wortgruppen und Sätze wahr, ohne genau jeden Buchstaben bzw. jedes Wort zu lesen. Der Inhalt ergibt sich automatisch durch den Zusammenhang. Für mich war es zu Beginn die größte Herausforderung mir abzugewöhnen, beim Lesen innerlich mitzusprechen. Wenn du das hinbekommst, ist der Rest, eben das Erfassen von Wort- und Satzgruppen, relativ leicht. Ich bemerkte jedoch, man muss in der Übung bleiben, ansonsten fällt man zu leicht wieder in die Gewohnheit zurück, den Text innerlich mitzusprechen.
Ich lernte Schnelllesen in zwei Kursen des Auswärtigen Amtes, für das ich damals in Finnland arbeitete. Ich glaube jedoch, Schnelllesen kann man sich auch gut selbst beibringen, wenn man die Disziplin aufbringen kann, es in der ersten Zeit täglich für mind. eine halbe Stunde lang zu üben. Leute, die sich schnelles Lesen beibringen, lesen etwa dreimal so schnell wie zuvor und, was ich noch wichtiger finde, behalten nach Untersuchungen doppelt so viel wie vorher. Wenn du dich dafür interessierst, schau dir `mal folgende Seite an:
https://www.improved-reading.de/schneller-lesen-lernen-anleitung-zum-effizienten-lesen/
Also dann viel Erfolg.
Mit herzlichem Gruß
Klausbernd 🙂
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Danke !
“…behalten nach Untersuchungen doppelt so viel wie vorher.” Das erscheint geradezu unglaublich, aber wiederum: Wieso auch nicht!?
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Die Steigerung des Behaltens finde ich auch den springenden Punkt. Ich konnte die größte Steigerung des Behaltens feststellen, seitdem ich ein Lesetagebuch führe – seit etwa zehn Jahren. Man könnte allerdings auch fragen, ob man so viel behalten muss.
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Wenn man mit dem Gelesenen in Sachbüchern argumentieren möchte, dann sollte man es entspr. behalten können.
Es gibt ja ein neueres Buch, das genau darauf abhebt: Was wissen wir wirklich? Was wissen wir dergestalt, daß wir es verwenden können?
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Naja, das war ja ein wesentlicher Teil meiner Arbeit als Autor, ein Merker und Sammler zu sein. Natürlich ist das wesentlich beim Schreiben von Sachbüchern, aber auch beim literarischen Schreiben ist es wichtig. Da merkt man sich dann elegante und anmutige Wendungen oder einen originellen Satzrhythmus. Meiner Erfahrung nach kann man fast alles irgendwann einmal verwenden, was man `mal gelesen hat, allerdings wird’s dann über die Zeit oft zum Eigenen verwandelt. Ich glaube, wir wissen nur wirklich, was wir auch verwenden, das andere vergessen wir eh. Wissen schreit nach Verwendung. Quasi unnötiges Wissen vergeht wie der Rauch im Wind. So macht es Platz für neues Wissen, das womöglich brauchbar ist. Aber lassen wir die Kirche im Dorf, das wesentliche Wissen besteht doch darin, dass man weiß, wo man es findet. Manch einer hat heute sein Wissen an Wikipedia outgesourced, das genügt allerdings nicht. Wikipedia verbreitet den Mythos des Wissen durch ihr breites Halbwissen. Anyway, ich glaube nach wie vor bekommt man Wissen durch Lesen, Gespräch und Nachdenken. Kühn behaupte ich, ohne gründlich über etwas nachgedacht zu haben, entsteht nicht etwas, das ich `Wissen´ nennen würde.
Unsere Bibliothek ist insofern mein ausgelagertes Wissen, da ich in allen Büchern Anmerkungen, Unterstreichungen und Kritik mit spitzem Bleistift hineinschreibe. Ich schaue immer wieder in den Büchern nach, was mir hierzu und dazu beim Lesen einfiel.
Unnötiges Wissen – dazu fällt mir ein, dass ich das oft zu hören bekam, denn ich habe meine Karriere als Spezialist für mittelhochdeutsche Literatur begonnen. Wozu verwende ich das heute? Ganz klar zur Erbauung. Den “Erec” oder den “Tristan” zum Glas Rotwein vorm Kamin zu lesen, macht mir gute Laune. Und ist das nicht ein wesentlicher Nutzen?
Wir könnten uns hierüber noch ewig unterhalten. Da stellt sich doch sogleich die Frage, ob der Wert des Lesens und Behaltens intrinsisch ist. Und immerhin kann man abgelegenes Wissen zum Angeben benutzen 😉
Ich kenne das Buch nicht, dass du erwähnst. Könntest du mir bitte Autor und Titel schreiben.
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Ich sah das Buch im Bereich “Naturwissenschaften” einer grösseren Buchhandlung, habe da reingelesen, es nicht gekauft, da das Thema ja schon oft behandelt wurde und ich zuhause Stapel zur Abbarbeitung habe.
Man könnte auch von “Wissenstrance” als Thema des Buchs sprechen. Es ging z.b. in der Einleitung darum, ob man eine Klospülung versteht, die physikalischen Prinzipien dahinter.
Wer war denn der Philosoph, der dann auch ein trauriges Ende fand, weil er den Leuten mit seinen Fragen auf die Nerven ging und sie hilflos ob ihres Nichtwissens zurücklies?
Jedenfalls finde ich das Buch jetzt nicht.
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Lieber Gerhard, ich glaube, du meinst Socrates.
Die physikalischen Prinzipien hinter meiner Klospülung verstehe ich ja noch, aber wie all die Funktionen unseres Volvo funktionieren, da findet mein Verständnis seine absolute Begrenzung.
Schade, dass du das Buch nicht findest. Aber du hast schon Recht, das Thema wurde bereits viele Male behandelt.
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Ich war heute (zufällig :-)) in einer Buchhandlung und fand den Titel:
“Wir denken, also bin ich”.
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Herzlichen Dank 🙂 🙂
Wir hörten von dem Titel.
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Now, that’s my kind of room. Why collect books? What a stupid question – I would say, but I know it’s not a proper answer. Well, I don’t need to excuse my passion for books as it seems like you don’t either. The only exception maybe being when I move the tons of books from one place to another, or make a now library as you have done here. Enjoy and keep reading!
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Good morning, dear Otto,
why collect books? We didn’t ask ourselves the questions why we collect like most of the collectors. Of course, we could rationalise it, we collect books because that’s our visit to other worlds without travelling – very ecological. And we love reading and being surrounded by books.
Great that you like our library room. We are just renovating another library room in our house. Well, so we keep ourselves busy 😉
You enjoy your books as well 🙂
The Fab Four of Cley
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I didn’t get a notification of this post, I found it though, hence late…. This is a fantastic room and I would love to be in there and spend a good time with books there. You have done a great job, it looks cosy, it looks inviting, it looks peaceful, just perfect with a good book. Crisps are already there too, I see. Beautiful indeed!
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Good afternoon, dear Ute,
well, this is one of our library rooms hosting books and booze 😉 – and the crisps. It’s our favourite room now but, oh dear, we are renovating and decluttering our living room now. We are giving our rooms a more up-to-date feel which means for us creating place for books and empty spaces. When I bought this house I lived in empty rooms, just a beautiful carpet, some bookshelves and no other furniture. I did everything on the floor and loved it. Very ZEN, white walls, wooden floors and thick carpets. With Dina and our Bookfayries moving in came furniture too and more and more things we now trying to get rid of again.
Great that you like our creation of this library room. Thank you very much 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a wonderful rest of the week
Klausbernd and the rest of the Fab Four of Cley
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I love this space. How wonderful to have a room devoted to your books. That would be my dream. Over the years I have probably owned a similar number of books, but lack of space has meant that I have had to be ruthless and only keep favourites.
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Dear Elaine,
actually, we have several rooms in our house devoted to our book collection, but this is the most beautiful – or like Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma seeing it, our second most beautiful library room. Besides this we have two other rooms filled with books – the entire wallspace is used for shelves there which we built ourselves. Well, we live between books. Very bookish, indeed. But collecting books is an addiction. And to organise these books that you find a certain book again that’s quite a challenge. We do this with a library programme and our books are more or less in an alphanumerical order.
We know, it’s crazy but we love it 🙂 🙂
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How wonderful to have so many bookshelves/rooms. I’m not surprised to hear that you need a system to help you locate your books. Do you ever have trouble deciding which book to read? 🙂
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Dear Elaine
Indeed, I have quite often the trouble to choose a book to read. I just read “Dreams by the Sea” by the Swedish author Björn Larsson. Before that I read “Shantaram” by Gregory Roberts. It was especially hard to decide what to read next after this thrilling novel.
Wishing you a happy day
Klausbernd 🙂
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I like the sound of ‘Dreams by the Sea’ – it sounds relaxing. 🙂
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🙂 🙂
Indeed, it is!
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I missed this one first time round – April was not a good month for me. I’m grateful to Gwen for sending me the link. Jackie built most of my bookcases
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Dear Derrick,
our dear Master with Selma’s 🙂 help built our most of our bookcases and all bookcases in this room we got from IKEA.
Thanks for commenting. We hope that July will be a great month for you
The Fab Four of Cley
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A Rooms full of Books is not enough. You must have a Head full of Books and the Talent to use
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Dear Erwin,
as a professional writer it was part of our Master’s job having his head full of books and using these infos to write new ones.
Thanks for commenting and wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Your new library looks AMAZING. congratulations
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Dear Lisa
thanks a lot 🙂 🙂
It’s great that you commented at our’s so we found your book blog.
Have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you so much. Sorry I have been so silent.
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Don’t worry.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hi, loved your blog. Love the books as well. I have attempted a supernatural children’s book recently.
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Thanks 🙂 🙂
The Fab Four of Cley
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Super! A dream! Love it!
robert
PS: organizing books in a library is not easy, is difficult but a joy in the same time!
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Dear Robert,
you are absolutely right. Organising books is quite a job and because of limited shelf space a never ending job as well, but, as you say, lots and lots of fun 🙂 🙂
We feel as you write in your gravatar text living in a Euro-critical country but feeling European.
Thanks for commenting.
Wishing you a GREAT weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow, how beautiful. What a great post.
We love books. I have obtained about 1500 French books from Paris and Brussels since 1975. I have also about 1000 books in Spanish and Portuguese together. I have naturally Finnish books and my wife about two hundred together. So, we love books. and read them every night before sleeping.
Have a good day!
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Dear Sartenada,
we always read before sleeping as well. It’s so cosy reading in the bed.
Actually, our dear Master tried to learn Finnish but he wasn’t that successful and now he has it all forgotten as he didn’t practise it.
Wishing you a cosy evening
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow,Best room till date for me.I can understand how much love makes such a big library
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Thank you very much! 🙂 🙂
We love this library room.
All the best, keep well
The Fab Four of Cley
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Sir, i would love to have bullet points of your blogs journey
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Oh dear, I am very sorry, I don’t really understand what you mean. Could you, please, be so kind as to explain. Thank you.
Wishing you a happy weekend
Klausbernd 🙂
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Yes sir I wanted when you started blogging & what you feel during these years.
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We started blogging 8 or 9 years ago. It all started with the website of our Master http://www.kbvollmar.de, who as an author wrote every month an article for his “fans”. Dina as a photographer wanted to present her pictures and so we started blogging seperately first, well, not really seperately. And after about 4 or 5 years we started blogging together. In the beginning there was a general hype of blogging. We got easily 600 likes and more but now we get in an average about 350 likes. Many bloggers who started with us have given up blogging. We thought of giving up blogging several times as well. But now we love blogging again, trying out something in photography and text.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Great sir. Nice.
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Great sir.
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I am beginner blogger. Love to blog daily even if I get small time.Miles to go before we sleep.Lot of learning on the way. SEO & affiliate Marketing is next target alongside. Suggestions of senior bloggers always welcome
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For us blogging every day means low quality because of high quantity. We started blogging once a week and now we are posting once every forthnight or 3 weeks.
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Well, we collect books, mostly first editions. That’s our hobby. We have several library rooms in our house.
We don’t blog for making money, we just blog for fun.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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I absolutely love the final result! Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Have a wonderful day! 😀
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Dear Lashaan,
thank you so much 🙏 🙏
We love this room very much as well.
Have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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