A Bookshelf-Builder’s Notebook

I love notebook pages with measurements and plans! I found this one accompanying an excerpt from Nina MacLaughlin’s memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter:

“…the story of MacLaughlin’s journey out of a drag-and-click job at a newspaper and into a carpentry apprenticeship. In this section MacLaughlin strikes out on her own to craft bookshelves for her father and meditates on the relationship between writing and carpentry, and learning to build with wood instead of words.”

Sounds like a great book… especially if it includes more photos of her notebooks! (Though I’m not sure it does, alas…)

Read more at : All the Language in the World Won’t Make a Bookshelf Exist : Longreads Blog

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