My talk about organizing my books is so far just that – talk. I came home tonight, worked out, started another book, and not once did I think about organizing the shelves.

I really want to but I’m feeling overwhelmed. I was asked if I have a system? Sort of… I like to keep my hardbacks, the keepers, together. They are alphabetized but they have their own bookcase. A smaller bookcase is filled with trade paperbacks. The majority of my books, the to be read ones, are jammed into a tall bookcase. I have lots of those.

Other shelves are devoted for poetry books, crafty books and magazines and Spanish books.

I also have a pretty glass-paned cabinet where I keep my signed books, my prized possessions. I have signed books by Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denise Chavez, Isabel Allende and a few others.

So that’s my organization. How do you organize your books?

My goal this week is to organize the bookshelves. I know you must be laughing at that – I am too. I want to at least have all my books on the shelves and not overtaking the floor in our little office.

I plan to do some donating and selling. Anything to free up some bookshelves. I’ll keep you updated on the progress.

You guys won’t believe this. I found this bookstore which is closing one of it’s Dallas Metroplex locations and has all paperbacks for $1 and hardbacks for $2.

I would list all the books I bought, I spent $36, but my husband cleared space to do some calligraphy and he mixed in my new books with all my other books. Yikes, now I really need to go through all of my stacks of unread books to see what I have and update my booklist.

Other tidbits, I did finish The Body in the Library and found it delightful. I will definitely be adding Agatha Christie to my list of authors to read. Thank you to those of you who gave me some recommendations. I’ll be looking for those books.

And, sadly, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has said that he is no longer writing. Luckily, I still have a few of his books yet to read so I can savor those.