The Great Bookcase Weedout of 2010
Jul. 28th, 2010 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI am entirely unpacked. Hurrah! As promised, here are photos of the Great Bookcase Weedout of 2010.
This is what I was up against:
There was a double row of books on each of the shelves. The narrow white bookcase you'll see later was piled even deeper.
In order to rearrange and figure out what I wanted to sell to the used bookstore, I had to take everything down. Because I am a fool, I decided to start this process at 6:30 at night. Once I started, I had to finish, because, well:
The two boxes quickly filled up with used bookstore fodder. By 10:30, I had finally finished. Behold:
Of course, it helped that we moved one of the bookcases I brought back into the dining room, and I got to take it over entirely:
My anthologies and such wound up on yet another bookcase in the den, which I haven't taken a picture of because it's kind of hidden behind a chair, and I figure this is self-indulgent enough.
Anyway. Yaaaay, it's done! Now I just have to hope that my cunning plan of using the two sets of bookends as a kind of barometer of Hey, You Need to Sell Some Books will work out for me. Once they get within a couple inches of the edge, it's time to chuck the ones I don't want anymore? We'll see.
This is what I was up against:
There was a double row of books on each of the shelves. The narrow white bookcase you'll see later was piled even deeper.
In order to rearrange and figure out what I wanted to sell to the used bookstore, I had to take everything down. Because I am a fool, I decided to start this process at 6:30 at night. Once I started, I had to finish, because, well:
The two boxes quickly filled up with used bookstore fodder. By 10:30, I had finally finished. Behold:
Of course, it helped that we moved one of the bookcases I brought back into the dining room, and I got to take it over entirely:
My anthologies and such wound up on yet another bookcase in the den, which I haven't taken a picture of because it's kind of hidden behind a chair, and I figure this is self-indulgent enough.
Anyway. Yaaaay, it's done! Now I just have to hope that my cunning plan of using the two sets of bookends as a kind of barometer of Hey, You Need to Sell Some Books will work out for me. Once they get within a couple inches of the edge, it's time to chuck the ones I don't want anymore? We'll see.
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Date: 2010-07-31 07:29 pm (UTC)Totally worth it.
I loved Charlotte Temple because it was so. very. dramatic. and not because it had an awesome plot.
Yeah, that's pretty much the selling point for Pamela as well. There's less melodrama than Charlotte Temple, though, and more of Pamela being overwrought about things we wouldn't consider a big deal today.
It was boring, it was unnecessarily complex - one sentence extended an entire fucking chapter, thankyouverymcuh, which is bad enough in English but when it's in your second language....no. Just no.
ZOMG. I enjoy modernism and its associated stylistic tricks to a perhaps unhealthy degree (Ulysses and I are like THIS), and that sounds painful even to me.
I've heard I need to read Borges, and Marquez as well. They and Cortázar are definitely going on my list. Thanks for the recs!
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Date: 2010-08-01 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-01 04:40 am (UTC)Technically it means Southern Highway, but I seem to recall something about Motorcyclists in the translation. It's hiding somewhere in my notes but I'm way too tired to drag them out and find it. Sorry!
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Date: 2010-08-01 07:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-01 10:15 pm (UTC)