Book Nooks: Inspired Ideas for Cozy Reading Corners and Stylish Book Displays by Vanessa DinaMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This is a coffee table book loaded with photos of 'book nooks', areas to create in your home dedicated to books and reading. I was expecting something similar to all the lovely books and bookcase reading areas pictured in my Instagram feed. I was VERY disappointed!
I should know better by now than to be pulled into these glitzy, self-purported designer books. Typically they are sterile and organized by color. The book is arranged by room (bedside, bathroom, small space) or type of book (cookbooks, kids, gardener). And there is an extreme fondness for just stacking the books on their sides on the floor...or on the stairs...or on the toilet. Why?!? The absolute worst idea was to turn your books so that you cannot see the spines and store them in a fireplace! There was really nothing in this book to inspire me to create interesting shelves of books, combining my book collection with other items of interest.
I read this book in e-book form on Hoopla. I'm not sure why, but there were several different sized fonts throughout the book, from extremely small to very large. Also, the photo captions were all on a different page from the photograph they described. This is obviously a problem caused by the formatting from print book to e-book, but it can be very disconcerting to the reader. My recommendation is - don't waste your time!
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