unclutter | Feb. 1st, 2019

I have not done much the last two weeks; it's been very cold and I have been hiding out reading. I did move a lot of books out of the house - 58 in all of January. A lot of these came from a couple of boxes I stashed in December but did not count until I took them to Books to Prisoners a few at a time.

This week I cleared the bedroom chair of piles of books and clothes. I have to do this from time to time; this time I found a new pair of black knit trousers that I had ordered last fall and deposited in the chair but never opened. Of course they need to be shortened. I distributed the books to better locations and threw out a few pieces of paper that had taken residence there.

I am working on the east wall bookcases; shelf three four to be exact. It is double-shelved and has a lot of fannish books in it. The back shelf has a good number of Andre Norton paperbacks; I have not re-read Norton in a long time, and probably won't. Someone whose name I have forgotten has been posting reviews of Norton's books on DW, and I read them with interest but they have not driven me to re-read much. I will have to decide what to keep, if any, tomorrow. There is also a batch of Sheri S. Tepper that I have not re-read - quite possibly because they are in the back row - so I have decisions to make, including what goes in the back row now, to possibly be forgotten. The shelf is sized for paperbacks, and I have a lot stacked around waiting to be read, but the back row just about guarantees I will not read them, although their location will be noted on my LibraryThing account.

I have work to do tomorrow