Comments on: Chapter 92 A Small Space vs. A Room of One’s Own, Or, Kitchen Table Wisdom

By: Chapter 443 Let’s See if I Can Do This Without Interruption, Or, Why I May Move My Office to an “Undisclosed Location” « Book Hunter’s Holiday

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:54:31 +0000

[...] considered moving my office from my dining room to an “undisclosed location” so I could get some work done, but my life would be so [...]

By: Chapter 422 Books Into Film « Book Hunter’s Holiday

Chapter 422 Books Into Film « Book Hunter’s Holiday — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:46:09 +0000

[...] Chapter 422 Books Into Film In 2005, Julie Powell published her first book, the bestselling Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. It might have been a good book, but I wouldn’t know, because I was obsessed at the time with reading anything and everything about book collecting and bookselling. I had enough cooking to do for the family of four in my house; I wanted to escape from cooking. The last thing I wanted to read was another book about cooking. I’m sorry I felt that way, because I should have had some appreciation for another woman who works in a very small space and who does her best to master something new to her. [...]

By: Chapter 206 R.I.P. Tasha Tudor, and Thanks For Making It Alright for Me to Have an Office at My Dining Room Table With Children Underfoot « Book Hunter’s Holiday

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:24:46 +0000

[...] here to read the original post I wrote last winter about Tasha Tudor and working at my dining room [...]

By: bookhuntersholiday

bookhuntersholiday — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:10:15 +0000

Oh, ccr, I have paper mountains, too. I just shift them onto the china hutch when we eat dinner!

By: ccr in MA

ccr in MA — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:49:14 +0000

And if it was me, another benefit to your setup would be that being “forced” to clean up after myself regularly would help keep the paper mountains from forming. I have trouble with those!

By: Historia

Historia — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:17:26 +0000

I do know what you mean. I never liked art either. And my book work space has to compete with the computer which takes up most of the dining room table. We dont use a “dining room table”. Everyone just sits around the lounge to eat. We only have a small apartment.