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.)
Re: in regards to books...
July 15 2011, 02:57:01 UTC 5 years ago
I can't understand this attitude. Most parents would be happy that their children were reading without being prodded.
Re: in regards to books...
July 15 2011, 04:03:31 UTC 5 years ago
... but I was an odd child. I was the most picked on kid at school, she wanted me to make friends, and I wanted to read (I really didn't see the point in trying to befriend people who called me names and worse. She thought if I tried hard enough to fit in, it would stop) 'cause I could escape in books.
And it was rural, bible-belt PA. My home town boasted having the most churches per capita in the country and most of them were very, very fundamentalist.
So, no, the fantasy and science fiction books didn't go over so well. Let's put it this way, I was not allowed to celebrate Halloween. It was the "Devil's Holiday".
I paid for the majority of those books by shoveling snow and skipping lunch.
Classics, historical period books, heck, even romances were acceptable. Science fiction and fantasy were not.