I am still breathing. I promise.
I've just moved. I'll send everyone that info via email this week. If you don't get that email, pester me and remind me of my shortcomings, and I will send it to you.
Then again, if you don't get that email and I don't know you, I'm probably not going to send you my address. No offence.
Anyway, I am sorting/categorizing my books for the first time since...well, ever. I started out with five categories, then I'll go to sub-categories (by date, subject, region, etc). The big five are: teaching/work reference, general/other reference, non-fiction, fiction/poetry/literature, and comics/graphic novels. Sounds easy, right? Meh. A few things came to mind:
1) Jesus tap-dancing Christ, I have a lot of books.
2) It is sooooo tempting to put Foucault in fiction...
3) Hmmm...surrealism...where should I...
4) Wow, did I take a Henry James class?
5) Well, the cynic in me says anything satirical should probably be non-fiction...
6) EL CID!! I'm organizing these books in a fortunate hour! Ha ha!
7) Okay, well, if medieval chronicles go in non-fiction, surrealism does too, damn it!
8) I own two Thomas Mann novels. You'd think I would have read at least one.
9) Jesus tap-dancing Christ, I have a lot of books...
Perhaps this will be continued later.
1 comment:
Aaagh! Cataloging/classification urges...too powerful...to overcome...!
I must come organize your bookshelf!
And heck yeah, Foucault goes in fiction. But only because you don't have a "paranoid, ridiculous garbage" section. So fiction it is. Or the trash! I vote trash.
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