dogslife

UPDATE: Done! Now I've got the complete works of Alice Munro to my left (along with damn near everything by Peter Carey, Leonard Cohen, and J M Coetzee), and to my right is the Concise OED and the OED of Etymology. The latter two were badly neglected in my pre-nook life. I'll be forever sorry, but I'll also make it up to them. For starters I'll note that the creation of these much-envied nooks was made possible by the Scandinavians, not only through the cheap furniture they've acclimated us to, forever entrenching the cutilitarian aesthetic in the lives of every member of the American middle class and damning carpenters to contracting hell, but through nok, the Norwegian word from which we get nook, meaning "bent object"--you know, like one of these.

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Sure, the books were unpacked and shelved, but were they organized?

I want to bail but I can't because really all I've done is created a mess. Books that used to be up and out of the way are now stacked precariously in roughly sorted piles all over the place. I like to think it's reminiscent of the Montana landscape used in John Ford's The Searchers. I fear Ginny won't agree, so I keep working.