New Pile-O-Books

Like Quixotic, I got a new pile of books in the mail today, so I wanted to do a quick post to show them off. I'm especially excited about Charles Vess' Book of Ballads which is beautiful and Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's collection, The Faery Reel which has some illustrations by Vess. They're all wonderful and my bookshelf welcomes them warmly.

I've been sweating all day over detailing my car and I'm officially done with it. It seems I've been "officially" doing things lately, but I only do things if I make them "official." I have to tell myself that they MUST get done, or I will not do them. I'll say "later". But no more later. At least not for now. So now that I'm done detailing the car and entering the new books into LibraryThing (yes Jessica, I used the scanner), I'm going to put together the 3rd and final bookshelf and then I will OFFICIALLY be done putting together the bookshelves. My, those bookshelves put me in a bad mood. They're such a pain to put together and I tend to snap at people if they're around me while I'm doing so. Stay away from me for the next couple of hours....

The Thing That Is Library

So what did Chris find in the mail today? I found my CueCat that I ordered from Library Thing and I love it! It's this cool little ISBN scanner that puts all of the information for your books into your Library Thing. It's $15, and well worth it if you ask me. Now I can be a librarian wanna-be at home whenever I want.

I've finally updated my LibraryThing and put all of my books onto it. This was exciting for me, but very sad at the same time. I realized that Katrina ate a big chunk of my books. I knew that I lost a bunch of books, but didn't realize how many until I pulled the ones left out of storage once I got the new bookshelves. After taking a census of my books via LibraryThing, I have 180 books left, though I bought many of those (prob. about 80) since Katrina. Among the missing books are all 3 Lord of the Rings books, Ender's Game, Children of the Mind (one of my favs in the Ender series by Orson Scott Card), Seventh Son (first in Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series) some C.S. Lewis books (though I still have most of his), my original copy of A Wrinkle in Time with my favorite cover, all of my cheesy Anne Rice books that I used to love and will probably buy again, and countless others that I can't think of right now. Kind of a bummer, but it's all good. It will be fun to build up the library again from scratch.

P.S. I've added a LibraryThing thing to the sidebar