Organizing my Library

I didn't try to organize my books when I first moved into this apartment. I just threw them up on the shelves as fast as I could so I could break down the boxes and get them out. Since then, I've been frustrated by not being able to find anything. This evening I started sorting it out -- which is a real challenge given the size of my library.

My first thought was that I would take all the books down and stack them into piles by topic, and then figure out how the whole system would be organized -- but I don't have that much floor space. Once there were a few hundred volumes scattered about, with hundreds more still sitting on shelves I decided a new strategy was in order. Instead, I decided to focus on what was most important to me and just let things develop from there.

( The shelves so far. . .  )

My "Select Library"

Just in case anyone is curious, these are the books that I love the most, the ones that don't get shelved with the others of their genre.

Like the former title of this journal, they range from the sublime to the ridiculous.

( A little bit of everything, and it comes close to adding up to me. . .  )