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Heyang: With your book organization style, it can say a lot about you. It’s almost more telling than what you read to some extent. It’s not the subject matter of the books you read that reveal the insights to your personality, but it’s the way you organize those books in (ways such as) spines in or out, or according to color code, or genre. How do you exactly order your bookshelf? I wanna ask you guys first about your personal decisions, and we’ll go from there.
Ryan: When I was looking at this I looked at all the different kinds of ways they had listed for you on how you organize your bookshelf. And I immediately connected with subject matter, because I feel I would put books about science over here, and books about space and art here. That would make it easier for me to get to the kind of book I wanted real quick.
But I saw some other ones too. Like color coordinated. I am kind of a “Fengshui” kind of guy.
HY: You are?!
Ryan: I know, yes, I am.
HY: I don’t know you at all, Ryan. I feel betrayed.
Yu Yang: You said you are into science, space and something like that.
Ryan: But I’m also into aesthetics, if I have a space ship it would be really cool. So I can understand that, like color coordinated books to look awesome. That might be really cool.
HY: What about you Yu Yang?
YY: I sometimes stack my books according to their sizes. I put books of similar size together. The big books are stacked here, the smaller books at stacked there. But sometimes I group books of the same subject matter together. Journals, dictionaries, novels, and notebooks are grouped separately.
HY: And Yu Yang you are an organizing freak. (YY: Yes, I am.) She likes things clean, in an orderly fashion, and it would be such a treat to live with you, and have you help me out with these things. I would be so grateful Yu Yang!
YY: I know your purpose, Heyang. But I’d like to help you out. (Thank you.) I’m notoriously known as the super clean and super organized person.
Ryan: I think it’s a good thing to be known for. I think I’ve been known as the opposite. No no no. But anyways, Heyang, please fill us in. Where do you fit in on this category of organization.
HY: At first, I thought I would go by author. Coz if I like a writer, I will buy almost every book that’s published by that person. I want it to be grouped together, regardless of size and how it looks. I want it to be together. Otherwise it kinda bugs me. But that’s not really on the list! So I’m kinda thinking outside of the box.
I think subject matter kind of makes sense. But color coordination, like what Ryan said, no way does that become one thing I would consider.
Ryan: Whatever…To each their own okay. But there was one of these categories which I was pretty surprised with. But I could also understand. And that was spines to the back. So image the part of the book where you have normally facing you out from the bookshelf actually goes in, so you just see the pages. I immediately thought this…the description says you are a perfectionist. Any my thinking is you are reading shameful things. (HY: You have something to hide.) Romance novels that are cheesy and you don’t want anybody to know about it, like my mom out there. I know you mom!
HY: And I think Ryan you are talking about me too. (Ryan: And Heyang too for sure.) It’s like if you’ve got “50 Shades of Grey.” (Ryan: Or “The Notebook”…) Or The Notebook, or…It might surprise some people…(YY: You don’t want other people to see the title, so you hide the spines to the back.) You are just reading my mind Yu Yang. I have a collection of, can’t believe I am revealing this to our listeners, but yes I read romance novels. I’m a girl, I’m allowed. Sometimes it is a little bit embarrassing if a visitor comes to my home and sees this. Heyang, are you an educated and worldly person, and you should be reading “The Memoirs of The Second World War, ” and you read this? About some hot dude dating some girl. And sometimes the covers are kind of shameful.
Ryan: You know you are not alone. Coz I remember when I was visiting my grandmother’s place, my mom, my sister and my grandmother were all in the kitchen talking. I was like that’s interesting, what are they talking about? They were talking about this book that’s secret dark passion. I was like that is the most corny romance chick flick book I’ve ever heard. But they are so into these books. And they were trying to talking to me about it, I was like no no. those books are like…horny...chick flicks. Not my scene.
HY: I am so brave to admit that I enjoy reading them. (YY: Brave girl.) If you are a chronological order person, then you are probably an academic that holds on to everything. If you are on your tablet all the time and order your books on the tablet, then you are into technology and you definitely are not in my “cave.” That’s all for the books.
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