I have a fairly large pile of books I haven’t yet read.\u00c2\u00a0 Most are gathered together on a shelf, hanging out, laughing, ribbing each other, hoping to be the next pulled out.<\/p>\n
Some have been there a long time.\u00c2\u00a0 Veterans, you might say.<\/p>\n
Some have been waiting to be read for so long, they never made it to that shelf.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re in boxes, which were catolgued some 4+ years ago before my overseas travels.\u00c2\u00a0 Since returning to the US, some of those boxes (which containt about 1,000 books, many of which I’ve read and a lot of which are reference of some sort) managed to be unpacked, and some rearranged.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the books are gone now (making room).<\/p>\n
Some, however, are still in boxes.<\/p>\n
Last night, I decided to start reading a particular book, which I know is in my library, but I also know is not out on the shelves.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been waiting a long, long time.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve read other, more recent books by the same author, and it was time to go back to this one.\u00c2\u00a0 I have over a dozen boxes still unpacked, so I checked my spreadsheet and determined I needed Box 38.<\/p>\n
I found Box 35.\u00c2\u00a0 And 14.\u00c2\u00a0 And even 39.\u00c2\u00a0 No sign of 38.<\/p>\n
I checked some of the other titles in 38, and saw that a few of the reference books were on my reference shelves, and a few others I had seen during the most recent move.\u00c2\u00a0 Translation: Box 38 had been broken up and, quite randomly, redistributed.\u00c2\u00a0 To find a particular book from that book, I had to open any (and possibly every) box remaining, regardless of the number.<\/p>\n
Which I did.<\/p>\n
In the fifth box, I found the book I sought.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope (and have reason to believe) it may reach that list of Recent Good Reads<\/i> on the side of this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a fairly large pile of books I haven’t yet read.\u00c2\u00a0 Most are gathered together on a shelf, hanging out, laughing, ribbing each other, […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}