Bookshelf #26

This week's bookshelf is...well, perhaps I should start by clarifying that this particular shelf isn't part of a set of bookshelves or anything. It's actually the interior of an old, cheap, wooden entertainment center that used to be in my parents' room in the '90s or so. The shelf pictured above is where the television used to sit...and the make of television set they had wasn't actually compatible with this entertainment center, which is why the back wall of it was cut—perhaps "hacked" is a more accurate word—out, so the back of the TV would fit in the space, and the cords and wires and what not could escape and drape down towards the electrical outlets. That's what the weird white shape beyond the books here is; a hole that looks like it was made with a hatchet in the wooden, and the white of the wall behind it. As with any and all furniture in my current home, I turned this entertainment center into a makeshift bookshelf, by cramming it full of books. There's a set of doors that…