Rainbow Bookshelves: Grouping by 7 Colors
The “Oh, I don’t remember the author or title but it had a red cover” request remains an in-joke of the library and bookstore worlds. I am jealous of minds that grasp and remember author names and book titles at the drop of a hat, so I have been guilty of different variations of the request for assistance. I have asked after the book “with the two green dragons” on the cover or “the one with a neon green pocket watch”.
I rarely manage to find the book I am looking for with these descriptions. However, I have discovered plenty of amazing books I may not have otherwise come across. While I have always needed to rely on writing down a book to remember it, especially before I have read it, my lack of memory for titles and authors has brought me a wealth of other interesting reads.
Grouping books by cover title on a shelf is also one the grouping methods that makes the least sense to me. The topics of books that are all one color tend to be all over the map. I will admit it is aesthetically pleasing though. With the simple goal of creating some good-looking color shelves I set out to fill seven full shelves of books, each in the color of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet).
Ironically enough, the hardest part of this was deciding which books were blue rather than indigo. The two colors are fairly similar and in the end the blue shelf may have still had some indigo on it, but I gave it my best shot. I will create a post for each color, giving a brief overview of the shelf contents and my favorite books in that particular color.
Here’s to hoping you enjoy my bookshelf rainbow~
