When I moved to my current house, the first thing I did before unpacking anything else was to arrange my books on an entire wall of bookshelves I had built.
Some might consider this an odd way to settle into a new home, but for me it felt like the natural thing to do. A person’s library says something about who they are. A library is a physical locus and material representation of a mental landscape. The house wasn’t home for me until my books had garrisoned the walls, projecting my personality into the space.
