I can't believe it has been that long!!

Thought about posting, somehow it got lost in the shuffle off to Buffalo.. not that I WENT to Buffalo, mind you. Having grown up not that far from Buffalo I can think of no reason under the sun to go there. Oh well...

I took a long look at the list of books from the last post, and decided to add Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I have had it for ages and then it got into a box when I moved and came out in a different place so I lost track of it. I have actually lost track of a lot of my books.

In the old place, the books were in the living room and I looked at them and interacted with them all the time. Here, they are in the bedroom and I am not one of those people who does things in their bedroom besides sleep. I go to bed when I just HAVE to and generally for me that is 1 AM or later, and once I am up I am UP. So the books are left unvisited and are a mess, as this gives good evidence.

SO, part of the "new, more focused me" is that I am going to clear one section of books by reading them or passing them on or doing something creative with them... not clear entirely, mind you, I have not LOST my mind, just refocused it.

I want one layer of books per section, not two. So I am starting with Jonathan Strange etc. because it was the biggest book in the section I started with. We shall see how long this takes.. I am taking bets.. perhaps by 2011?

All that studying of the bookcase did not produce a copy of "The Things They Carried" so I have to go buy that, though I would have sworn I had a copy. I didn't find "Going after Cacciatto" either, and I know I had that because I loved it and wouldn't have willingly given it up.

"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?"- Tom Stoppard, Arcadia