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Your bookshelf reveals all this about your personality!

TNN | Last updated on - Oct 1, 2018, 13:05 IST
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Your bookshelf reveals all this about your personality!

American novelist Walter Mosley said, “A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him,” and this is absolutely true. Bookshelves are collector’s pride and speak volumes about the personality of the owner! The way you want to place your books clearly states your preferences in life as well.
Some love to display books in a colour-coded pattern and others love to ornament their shelves that also exhibits a lot about their travel stories and preference of knick-knacks. We decode them all for you!
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Stacked up

If your bookshelf looks clumsy and overloaded with books in every nook and corner of the amazing bookshelf, it does not means that you are clumsy in life too. You are a mad genius and do not believe in outward personality or looks but trust the inner self and the content inside. You are the one for whom the phrase ‘Do not judge a book by its cover’ fits best. Needless to say that you are most comfortable with your old and steady friends.
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Ornamented

You are a great storyteller - you love to tell tales of your experiences, and likes and dislikes. You are extremely polite to everyone around and love to spend a pleasant time with everyone. If you like to deck up your bookshelf with your favourite figurines, it clearly unravels the fact that you have an active child in you who still get fascinated by the knick-knacks you have collected or have been gifted. You are that kid who would crave to get the latest dinosaurus figurine home before any of your friends!
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Genre-centric

Your mind is compartmentalised into different chambers and you keep the issues in life well segregated. You like to organise things according to your preference even if that sounds confusing to others. You have a little bit of every kind of personality trait in you and you know how to balance them all together.
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Colour-coded

You are one creative mind who never compromises on presentation and of course you love colours. Experimenting with crafts and exploring new opportunities is what you love the most. Even though you speak your mind loud, there is a space inside you that is very personal and secretive!
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Alphabetical

If 'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman grabs a place before 'The Fault In Our Stars' by John Green, it does not means that you like the latter any less but means that you are way too organised and prefer to keep things in order. A great problem-solver, you are classy and love vintage.
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GINGER GURU
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Every bookshelf is incomplete without a Kamasutra book.
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