My apartment has never been cleaner.
Bathroom: ready for a surprise guest.
Living room: vacuumed and everything in its place.
Kitchen: dishes done, recycling put away. I even mopped the floor.
Bedroom: clean sheets, clothes folded and put away.
I even cleaned the windows!
Last room to do was my library. I had books in piles everywhere. Sunday I built one more bookshelf, then last night I sorted and alphabetized all my books into categories.
I have the following categories (from memory so I might miss one or two):
- Reference: dictionaries (yes, I have more than one), thesauruses, style guides, maps, etc.
- Computers
- Humor and Sports: This is just a few books but an important category.
- Textbooks: Just had a few and wanted to keep them separated out.
- Self-Help and Relationships: An area of special study over the course of my life.
- Science and Philosophy: I tried to separate these out but had a hard time distinguishing in some edge cases. F’rinstance, Daniel Dennett’s books on consciousness and evolution: philosphy? Or science? A bit of both, I think.
- History: General non-fiction books on various topics, including my recent purchases of specifically political works, like Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga’s “Crashing the Gate” or Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”.
- Memoir and Biographies I’ve got four biographies of Philip K. Dick, and a few other memoirs and biographies. It’s about a half-shelf worth.
- Religious Texts: The Koran, Bhagavad Gita, Bible, etc., and various books critiquing same.
- Fiction: Everything else.
First bookcase
Second bookcase
Third bookcase
Now I want to find a program, like Delicious Library, and catalog them all. And my CDs and DVDs and other movies, too.
Yeah, I’m an organizing buzzsaw lately. Heh.