Literary Love - Organizing My Library

To celebrate Valentine's Day, I'm joining up with the Literary Love party happening at the blogs shown above. Who needs sappy Valentine's love, when you've got book love to post about? :)

So here's the moment when I confess my love for a kind of nerdy thing. I love organizing my library. I've got a lot of books (don't we all?). For years, my library was less than organized. Occasionally a series will end up sort of close to each other. Books by the same author might be on the same bookshelf if they're lucky. But I always knew where to find any book I was looking for. My system worked.

Then I got married. And moved. I certainly couldn't leave any of my books behind (okay, I may have given away 5 or 6). I packed up 27 boxes of books to move. Then I had to figure out how to put them on my shelves.

This was so much fun!

I ended up with a music shelf, travel shelves, shelves for old books, shelves for new books, and an entire bookcase dedicated to my favorite books.

And then two years passed.

The shelves became less organized, since I am constantly acquiring new books. Which meant that in November, it was time for a revamping. I piled all of the books I had accumulated so far in 2013. It was a pretty big pile.

Then I had to organize and reorganize, move things around, group by author on one shelf, move them to another shelf because I couldn't fit them all there, and give in to the idea of laying a few sideways on top of others because that was where they belonged but I just couldn't squeeze another book onto that shelf!

It was a glorious Saturday afternoon, and I look forward to repeating it soon in the future!

So there is my literary love confession, nerdy though it may be. What literary love of yours are you celebrating this week? Feel free to tell me in a comment, or link up your post at Doing Dewey, Estella's Revenge, From Isi, or Love At First Book!