Little boxes, on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky

There are boxes of books in my living room.

There are eight boxes of books in my living room.

Four of them are labelled "MM paperback sci-fi box #[number] of [blank]". Well, one is labelled "paper[bp]ack", with the B and P superimposed, and one is labelled "s[ci][ic]", similarly, but close enough for government work. (I transpose letters and confound lowercase B and P not infrequently when writing by hand.)

One is labelled "Religion/Magic/Egypt box #1 of [blank]".

Three of them are labelled "misc hardcover mostly fiction box #[number] of [blank]".


Net effect? The books double-stacked in the dining room are all trade paperbacks or hardcovers, and the bookcase where we ran out of shelving spaced for paperbacks and just started piling them up (starting around author surname beginning with T) has slightly fewer in the pile. There are no books on the floor in the green room. The bookcase in the foyer looks only slightly overfull and thus merely a touch untidy (I have not, however, packed my Tanakh, so if xiphias and cheshyre drop by again and get into a scriptural dispute in my hallway it will still be handy). There are fewer books on top of the computer hutch, and I don't think any of them are 'genre' by normal people standards. Also, I found my copy of the Book of Mormon, which somehow got taken upstairs rather than filed with the other religion books. The bookcases in the living room are mostly not doublestacked, and the floor in front of them is no longer covered in piles of books; the row of hardcover mostly-David Weber held on top of the bookcases with bookends no longer has an additional hardcover Weber sitting on top of it.

Also, I have dropped a largish pile of Anne McCaffrey hardcovers onto my left knee.

Also, Lennon appears to approve of there being giant stacks of boxes in the living room, as it gives him the opportunity to be Taller Than much more than he can usually be Taller Than.

Edited to Add: Also, I am reminded that I'm allergic to dust, and glad that I started this project when already on allergy meds rather than having this realisation strike me unblunted.