Bookshelf Re-org

In a late fit of spring cleaning, I came across my bookshelf.

I have books from my days as an English Lit major, to random classics I bought, but haven't read and my various obsessions (LSAT, Photography, France).

I decided to re-organize my books so they make sense... to me at least. What's funny about the following? From the bottom up the genres blended from "The Art of Raising a Puppy" to "Buying your first Horse" to "Chickens for Dummies" to "Chicken Recipes" then "How to Cook Everything."

Other book groupings I formed were as follows

• Weird books from Brody, or that remind me of Brody (Jimmy Neutron, Zines, "Never Let me Go")
• Kid Books, Parent Magazine
• Books I'm embarrassed to have
• All the Harry Potters
• Random Magazines (Cosmo with Britney Spears, circa 2002, looking clean and perfect; a Japanese mag that Brody gave me one Christmas; a Surfer Girl mag that makes me feel depressingly OLD! "How to Bake Christmas Cookies" which was obviously a gift, but I haven't tossed it.
• And my favorite genre of the moment; all my house books and "Cottage Living" "This Old House" mags.

We're in the process of hiring an architect to remodel our house so I'm dusting off every periodical from "Renovation Style" (my favorite house magazine) to the shamelessly self-promoting "Mary Engelbreit, Home Companion". Mary Engelbreit is right up there in the "Love to hate her" category keeping Marth Stewart company. In fact, I'm going to renew my subscriptions to Home Companion and Living today.

I'm Spring cleaning in August, designing our new remodel and totally 100% neglecting to paint my new picket fence. The clock is ticking and we only have a few weekends of nice weather left... which means SOMEONE is going to have to paint my fence!

Volunteers? I'll trade you a Christmas cookie magazine for labor!