thoughtfulSome of the de-cluttering efforts are obvious. For example, I am putting books in boxes, indexing their contents, and putting the boxes in a big stack of boxes (also filled with books). I am putting things I have no emotional attachment to/desire to keep in other boxes, and sending them away on a regular basis. I am freely giving things to strangers. Other efforts are less obvious. I bought two new cat trees, because cats knock stuff over, thus creating more mess than they will when given places of their own. I've been saving boxes, which makes more mess, at least until the boxes are filled and put away. And so on.
My brain is no tidier. In trying to clean up my link list, I found things that have literally been waiting for their shining moment for up to two years. Will I ever really get around to some of these? No. No, I will not. That makes me sad, but I'd like to see the floor in my rotating "to do" file someday, just like I'd like to see it in my kitchen, and so away they go. Farewell, sweet links. I hardly knew ye.
Still. Once, Feed was a best-selling title in an Australian bookstore. I was nominated for a Romantic Times award. Apex put out an anthology with my wacky Fighting Pumpkins alien invasion story in it. And I needed to take a nap.
I will probably do some really random review posts in the next few days, just to clear out some links that have waited long past their best-by date. This has never been a judgment on those reviews in specific; it's just how out of control the file has gotten. I need a maid to go with that nap, I swear.
Anybody want to come over and help me index stuff?
(*Let's be clear here: most of it is good stuff. That's why it's there. But not all of it is good stuff. Some of it is bad stuff. Some of it is the kind of stuff that seemed like good stuff six years ago, when I was a different person, or when I really thought that someday I, too, would be a world-class guitarist. And some of it, sad to say, is crap.)
(**If you don't think this is something worth going to war over, you're either not a bibliophile or have never had someone try to take one of your best-beloved books away from you. Not being in the mood to start global thermonuclear destruction, I am doing my best to avoid this.)
July 14 2011, 19:40:22 UTC 6 years ago Edited: July 14 2011, 19:43:24 UTC
Slightly related: I had my brother tell me the other day that his roommate is replacing my loaner copy of Deadline because "If I had known it was your sister's book, I would have been more careful with it." Witness the reason I bought two copies and the only person besides me who has touched my personal copy is my mother. On the bright side, more cat food for your lovelies, assuming he actually buys it, and doesn't just put it off forever. ETA: If he puts it off until Blackout comes out, I will probably end up buying the replacement copy, along with two copies of Blackout. Either way, you (eventually) win! gffy<--Cat says hi!
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July 14 2011, 22:38:54 UTC 6 years ago
I started that when I started to get books signed... suddenly it wasn't easy to replace the lost book.
So far it's worked wonders, but I have no idea where my loaner copy of FEED is. Strangely, am fine with that, as I am hoping it is roaming far afield.
July 15 2011, 09:08:51 UTC 6 years ago
I've had 5 or more copies of Silverlock, at least three of which have found homes elsewhere (I only have one for myself at the moment, but at least one might come back to me sometime). And I have at least 4 copies of Stranger in a Strange Land (the originally published version, not the 'uncut' one which is the only one which seems to be sold now) as "backup copies". I think I still have two copies of Feed, unless I lent one of them and forgot about it...
July 15 2011, 16:15:41 UTC 6 years ago
Wow.
Kill him.
July 15 2011, 17:56:09 UTC 6 years ago
I *would* kill him if I had to live with him. Since I don't, and I bought an extra copy anticipating it getting destroyed (albeit not that quickly...), I don't think I can do it. ;)