It started one day as I lay staring at my burgeoning bookcases. Something needed to be done…and fast.

In a fit of excitement, I pulled all the books from their resting places and piled them on the floor.

Mission: catalog and alphabetize. That was before I realized that I have a lot of books.

So far, from the first four shelves, there are 319 books:

• 202 fiction
• 20 non-fiction
• 46 reference
• 11 graphic novels
• 20 expendable

And I still have three more book cases to go (two with five shelves and one with four). <sarcasm>Whoopee!!</sarcasm> But I will not be deterred.

There’s a system. I’m not doing this for nothing. There is some sort of system, right? Please tell me there is. How else do you manage to keep all your books from eating you alive?!?