Bookshelves

Before we realized we would soon be moving, Brian decided to spend some of his job-hunting time brushing up on engineering knowledge and reading other books of interest. To that end, he created this:

Yup. That's a giant pile of books stacked on the edge of his desk. Honestly, I didn't really have a problem with that. Except that in creating this tower of tomes, he left behind this:

In case you're one of the majority who is looking for the problem in that photo, the problem is the gaps. Brian took books off their shelves and left no manner of support for the remaining books! For clarification, I've supplied a modified version to show you what my brain saw.

Why have you taken away hardbacks and left paperbacks to be bent and possibly broken? Are you torturing me on purpose? Don't you care about that thick copy of the History of Creativity? Do you realize that by leaving those language workbooks at a forty-five degree angle that the pages will be irreparably bent? I still use those workbooks! Do you just not care about the unsightly mess you've left of those three stacked shelves? And those are my linguistics shelves! You're an engineer! What could you possibly want with my linguistics shelves? And for heaven's sake why are you messing with anything on that lower shelf? Those books are purely decorative! Yes, it's the only copy of Chaucer I own, but the thing was printed I-don't-even-know-when and if you move any of the books on that shelf, the cover will literally fall off of Grandfather's Stories Taken from the History of France! 

Brain aneurysm on the spot.

After several deep breaths, educated Brian about the purpose of bookshelves, which is to hold books, versus the purpose of desks, which is not to function as book depository, all while carefully reshelving everything he'd taken out. And then after a moment, I realized that this would make a pretty good blog post and pulled all the books out again for pictures while Brian laughed.

But then I put them right back.