dispatches from the midst of chaos
Jan. 23rd, 2010 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
harborshore...I'm reorganizing my books. By genre. Have reached letter P of fiction. Poetry, drama, fantasy/sci-fi, and nonfiction await. Send help, there are TOO MANY BOOKS.
Notes (in progress):
ETA 2: Poetry is done!
AND DONE. Sort of. The poor nonfiction shelf is crammed and ridiculous and sharing space with part of my postcard collection and some posters, but it's done and it's all sorted and omg my books!
...I haven't touched the fantasy. OH WELL AT LEAST THAT'S IN ONE PLACE. I'm going to go find raspberry sorbet and something to read and then sleep for a million years.
Notes (in progress):
- I own a lot of Shakespeare editions. And a lot of poetry collections. And every book Diana Wynne Jones ever wrote.
- Half of my bed and half of my floor are covered, and the rest are in piles on the shelves.
- Winnie the Pooh stands next to the four book-long novel series on Swedish immigration to the US, which stands next to Cloud Atlas, which in itself contains at least four genres.
- ETA: Fiction is done! Sample statistics, A-D:
- Men: 29
- Women: 44
- Books by authors of color: 14
- English: 44
- Swedish: 19
- French: 3
- Spanish: 2
- Unread:10
- Number of books: 58
- English: 41 (LOL SELF SWEDISH POETRY EXISTS)
- Lithuanian: 1
...I haven't touched the fantasy. OH WELL AT LEAST THAT'S IN ONE PLACE. I'm going to go find raspberry sorbet and something to read and then sleep for a million years.
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Date: 2010-01-23 07:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-23 08:14 pm (UTC)...I mean I'm having fun. *grins* But seriously, too many books.
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Date: 2010-01-23 08:52 pm (UTC)Diana Wynne Jones is my favourite! Did you know that Enchanted Glass has just come out? One more to add to the piles \0/
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Date: 2010-01-24 01:07 am (UTC)And this is all without the load that's still at my mother's (that she conveniently forgot the location of, at least until I was out the room. All I can say is, thank God I'm best friends with a ninja. Those are my Charlaine Harris books she's hiding, amongst others!). /o\/o\/o\ See, this is why I want a studio flat. SO MUCH ROOM.
...Um. I may have had too much ice cream. I approve of the sorbet! Sorbet is the best. ^_^
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-24 04:41 am (UTC)I am also never going to attempt to reorganise my books, just so you know.
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:27 pm (UTC)But sometimes you need to! When you discover that your current system is crap and they're all out of order ANYWAY and you can't find anything. It happens! Not very often, admittedly, but still.
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