This is what I was up to at the end of my holiday break. I should have taken a before photo. Just imagine larger piles of books (and totally unwieldy) sitting in front of the little bookcase sitting against the wall! I could not even see the two shelves and getting to an of the books was always a (mis)adventure. I pulled them all out and sorted and organized and neatly put them back in a way that hopefully keeps the ones of most interest (at the moment) to the front and easily accessible!
The bookcase and the shorter piles sitting in front are all mysteries. The two closest stacks on top of the bookcase are classics. The two stacks next to those are nonfiction books--some memoirs, some nature books, and other odds and ends. The last stack on the end are all cloth novels (I HAD to have but likely now are all out in paperback). And the piles sitting in the corner are all novels and if there are more than one book by a particular author (for the moment anyway) they are all neatly sitting next to each other.
Here it is. Well, at least half the bookcase. It does look a little hidden in this photo, but compared to what it looked like before . . . it is a vast improvement.
This weekend I spent a little time at the bookstore. I did a little reading (the pile sitting there are my own in progress reads) and I am attempting getting back into the habit of book journaling again. I am not quite sure what form this will take, but I want to get back to keeping paper journals--if only for book lists (I have another journal that I am using to note down titles, authors and fates of the books I finish reading), quotes, wish lists and whatever else that catches my eye as I am reading. Do you journal? What form does it take?
The other habit I want to get back into it reading my weekly New Yorker story. Alas I did not get this story (from the first issue of 2019) read yet, but I have it tucked into my bookbag. I am trying to form good reading habits this year!