That time of year again. My Things To Do list is written on a pad that's shaped like a little man, and "reorganize library" has been hovering around the scrotum for about two years now.* The new shelves are much more organized: Canadiana, Classics, Modern Lit, Women's Studies, Native, Equity, NonFiction, Plays, Poetry, Zines and Journals, Jimmy Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Carol Oates, and Favourites (no lending!).

And of the stuff I'll never read again, the following are up for grabs if you give me a shout by January 2:

Hard Time by Sara Paretsky
-kinda cool mystery

Love, Anarchy and Emma Goldman
-some lady found all her love letters and wrote a biography

Psyche by Louis Couperus
-beautiful and mythical and so on. With literary nudity!

Birds of Heaven by Ben Okri
-I totally forget what this is about but it's tiny and you can read it over a lunch hour.

Gentle Savage
-a pretty racist romance novel. I had to write an essay on it in Women's Studies. It has lots of fucking in it, though.

Ruth Rendell Omnibus
-mysteries. You like mysteries? Read these.

Guilty by Sky Gilbert
-I really hated this book. This is from when I read books I didn't like all the way to the end. It was also the book that made me hate first-person narratives, Sky Gilbert, Insomniac Press, and most fetishes. Want it?

A Boy Named Phyllis by Frank DeCastro
-I have no idea. I think I got it from the Free truck when I worked for the library.

various erotica books
-don't be shy if you want these. They're mostly about sexy ladies. One of those crossover projects you get stuck with when you take a joint Women's Studies/English degree.

The Falls by Ian Rankin
-Rankin is my favourite mystery writer and this one is all about Edinburgh. I highly recommend it.



Notes:
*"reorganize library": Under the old system all books were shelved autobiographically, in the order in which they were read. It had something to do with High Fidelity and that I worked at a library and resented the Dewey decimal system.