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Jun. 9th, 2005 07:37 pmI am almost finished re-alphabeticising my modern fiction. This has been hard work and I am so glad it's almost done. I only have the letter W to go. I have lots of Ws thanks to an inordinate amount of HG Wells and Wodehouse and not nearly enough Diana Wynne-Jones.
The bad news is I discovered some books are permanently missing. I have recently retrieved over 30 books from friends, and I can't believe I still have gaps. How could this happen? I don't have a single one of my Kurt Vonnegut books. None. Nada. Not most of my Dorothy Sayers, including my favourites (no Murder Must Advertise, drabbit, nor Gaudy Night, nor the one with the annoying numberplate). I am missing one of the Wurts/Feist trilogy, which is frustrating - re-reading two of a trilogy is just not comfortable and I love that trilogy. The mystifying bit is that I am also missing two volumes of JK Rowling.
If I am missing anything else it is in the A-P bit of the alphabet, which wasn't being sorted. I will mourn *those* missing books at a later date. I was in the mood to read Slaughterhouse-Five again and Sayers is part of my winter survival kit, so I am wearing black just for them
The good news that in the fifty feet worth of shelf that got sorted, I only found one duplicate. The first person to ask for Jody Scott's "Passing for Human" (British edition, The Women's Press 1977) will own it forthwith.
The bad news is I discovered some books are permanently missing. I have recently retrieved over 30 books from friends, and I can't believe I still have gaps. How could this happen? I don't have a single one of my Kurt Vonnegut books. None. Nada. Not most of my Dorothy Sayers, including my favourites (no Murder Must Advertise, drabbit, nor Gaudy Night, nor the one with the annoying numberplate). I am missing one of the Wurts/Feist trilogy, which is frustrating - re-reading two of a trilogy is just not comfortable and I love that trilogy. The mystifying bit is that I am also missing two volumes of JK Rowling.
If I am missing anything else it is in the A-P bit of the alphabet, which wasn't being sorted. I will mourn *those* missing books at a later date. I was in the mood to read Slaughterhouse-Five again and Sayers is part of my winter survival kit, so I am wearing black just for them
The good news that in the fifty feet worth of shelf that got sorted, I only found one duplicate. The first person to ask for Jody Scott's "Passing for Human" (British edition, The Women's Press 1977) will own it forthwith.