Diane asked Katarina Bivald:

I'm so glad that Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend was translated into English. And thank you for the list of books referenced at the end of your story! I love how Sarah named the bookshelves and rearranged the books accordingly. Where did this idea come from? Have you done this with your own collection? I'm inspired.

Katarina Bivald I'm so glad you liked my book! Now, the idea with the bookshelves grew sort of gradually. I wanted a bookshop in my book (every book is better for a bookshop), and books and reading were naturally big parts of both Sara's character and the plot of the book, how she ended up affecting people. But for a long time, the bookshop itself was fairly traditional. A friend of mine, one of the first who read the book, said: "Wouldn't Sara do something... more with her bookshop?" And of course she would have! I went home that evening and started planning all the sections I would have wanted.

My own bookshelves are depressingly traditional, or perhaps I should say organical. I have a fiction-section, in my bedroom, which takes up all free space. It's mostly autobiographical, except for two that are more by theme: romance and supernatural (vampires and the like).

In my living room is the non-fiction: biographies and academic works and history-books. In the living room is also my sisters shelves: art books and fun, ironic reads like Christopher Moore, and the books she and I share, mainly an entire shelf dedicated to Terry Pratchett and one to Georgette Heyer. In the living room there's also a shelf for all the books connected to World War 1, the biographies, poems, history books etc. I have quite a collection. It looks slightly morbid next to the tv.

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