Bookishness

Order is still being restored to the Dragonsroost Municipal Library. Good grief we've got a lot of paperbacks. I've been busily adding shelves to the 'some assembly required' book cases (I've only drilled through them a couple times, I swear!) and shelving in quasi-alphabetical order.* I've got a 6-foot book case and a pair of 4-footers filled to capacity. I'm through H!

So yesterday I was sitting on the floor, looking at my three bookcases of A-H. I'd already looked back through them twice, pulled out the duplicates I found (I know there are more), and looked over all of *my* books to see which ones I can part with. That opened up a little space, but not much. I might have to get more brutal in my tactics because we don't really have space upstairs for six more book cases.

The irony is, though, that I was looking forward to tonight. We have a homeschool book club meeting. At Borders. Where I'm going to buy the book in the series** I'm reading that I forgot to add to my Christmas list. Turns out I'm half-way through what I thought was the next book, only to find it's the next next book. Drat. Hopefully it will be there in trade paperback; those go in a different place and I won't have to wedge it in with the other G's.


* I have the letters sorted, but have not alphabetized them within the letters. Why bother? It's not going to stay in order anyway. I just thought it might help me spot duplicates easier.

** Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series. I skipped The Fiery Cross accidentally and have had to stop reading Breath of Smoke and Ashes until I get caught up. No wonder I was confuzzled with some of the details!