Books, books, books

One of the summer chores is to sort the books, clean out the book shelf, re-shelf by category all the books and take away those that we have read. It sounds like a pretty easy job, but for a bunch of bibliophile it is not. Old friends, ie read books, bring back wonderful memories, and may be worth a second read. New books, well there is a certain anticipation, excitement and anticipation when one begins a new book, so maybe that time should be right now?
Hence, sorting, piling and organizing took a backseat to the impromptu readings and browsing until someone broke the spell by reminding of task at hand, and then back for a few minutes to sort, stack before a new book captured the attention and mind.
We did get the task done and the shelves are nice and tidy - and there is even some empty space ready to be occupied with new yet to be discovered books... you see we are off to Detroit to visit Bob and there are bookstores in Detroit!