Q (NYT By the Book): How do you organize your books?
A (Tara Westover): By genre! I want so badly to be one of these people whose books are arranged by color. They photograph so well! And I have this notion that it would be very pleasant to sit in a room of books ordered by shade and hue, like a wall of paint samples.
But it could never work. It would go against how I actually use my library. Every few days I wander up to my shelves with a hankering of one sort or another, thinking some thing like, "Today I would like to read an essay," or "Today perhaps a short story." But I have never once approached my shelves with the thought, "Today I would like to read a book that is yellow."