There's some positioning problems with the navbar for sure, it's making my OCD go nuts. Lol.
I'm thinking you're getting the right idea, but the layout looks way too busy. If you are going to keep the girl in the middle, you could make her more transparent to fade to the background instead of the foreground.
Besides that, the navbar positioning, among a few other formatting things...really making my OCD go nuts...
Must...organize...bookshelf....