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I thought I was doing so good on my "finish all the books you've started and then gotten distracted from" goal - I finished twenty-eight books in the month of January! Eleven of them were even ones that were on my list of things I needed to finish! And I made serious progress on several more! And I haven't started any new books that were left lingering for weeks! I got the list below 30 and have kept it there!
But then Librarything (finally!) instituted tag autocomplete, so I started trying to clean up the tags on my books, and discovered I had a "started to read" tag with. uh. Sixty-five books in it. Granted, some of them are ones I am NEVER going to finish because I have better things to do with my time, because literally anything would be better (DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, most awful book I have ever attempted to read, omg) and ten of them are duplicates from the list I'm currently working through, but. um. yeah.
And then there's the "early review" books which I got in exchange for agreeing to read and review and then punted when I had a really bad year. There's six of them I haven't read. I went ahead and added those. So much for keeping the list under thirty. I have another one coming too because I lack willpower. (One of 'em's by the same dude as Day of the Triffids though. I may just ignore that one.)
...also of course "A Companion to Wolves" which I still have out from the library.
Anyway this whole LibraryThing recheck has me thinking out how badly I need to reshelve my books in a more orderly way. What do you folks thing of reorganizing my nonfiction collection along these main sections:
ancient runes
arithmancy
astronomy
care of magical creatures
charms
defense against the dark arts
divination
herbology
history of magic
hyperstellar archeology
muggle studies
potions
transfiguration
Good idea? Bad idea? Best idea? (It's not quite as silly as it sounds: about half my nonfiction is on topics that would not be out of place in the Hogwarts library: I have about forty books tagged "divination" already.)
--Anyway I feel like my DW has been higher on boring life stuff than fandom content lately. My fandom life lately has been a) les mis chat, which is very rarely about les mis anymore; b) re-reading old JVJ longfic; and c) obsessing over a Winter Soldier AU where the Soldier is sent to honeytrap Captain America rather than kill him. SERIOUSLY. If that already exists I have failed to find it. Somebody tell me I just haven't looked hard enough.I don't even ship the damn pairing
But then Librarything (finally!) instituted tag autocomplete, so I started trying to clean up the tags on my books, and discovered I had a "started to read" tag with. uh. Sixty-five books in it. Granted, some of them are ones I am NEVER going to finish because I have better things to do with my time, because literally anything would be better (DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, most awful book I have ever attempted to read, omg) and ten of them are duplicates from the list I'm currently working through, but. um. yeah.
And then there's the "early review" books which I got in exchange for agreeing to read and review and then punted when I had a really bad year. There's six of them I haven't read. I went ahead and added those. So much for keeping the list under thirty. I have another one coming too because I lack willpower. (One of 'em's by the same dude as Day of the Triffids though. I may just ignore that one.)
...also of course "A Companion to Wolves" which I still have out from the library.
Anyway this whole LibraryThing recheck has me thinking out how badly I need to reshelve my books in a more orderly way. What do you folks thing of reorganizing my nonfiction collection along these main sections:
ancient runes
arithmancy
astronomy
care of magical creatures
charms
defense against the dark arts
divination
herbology
history of magic
hyperstellar archeology
muggle studies
potions
transfiguration
Good idea? Bad idea? Best idea? (It's not quite as silly as it sounds: about half my nonfiction is on topics that would not be out of place in the Hogwarts library: I have about forty books tagged "divination" already.)
--Anyway I feel like my DW has been higher on boring life stuff than fandom content lately. My fandom life lately has been a) les mis chat, which is very rarely about les mis anymore; b) re-reading old JVJ longfic; and c) obsessing over a Winter Soldier AU where the Soldier is sent to honeytrap Captain America rather than kill him. SERIOUSLY. If that already exists I have failed to find it. Somebody tell me I just haven't looked hard enough.
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(hyperstellar archeology? clarify term please)
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Are you doing the soul-bonded wolf fest then? I have that book on my to read pile as well.
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I have the book, and a book on wolf behaviour, but may not get around to anything this year.
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*Curiouses if you JVJ is the same as what I think it is, and if yes where is all the fic? @_@)
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Not the same then, alas :( (JVJ = J.V. Jones = an author I am fond of but I have never seen much fic for her stuff!)
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...no I thought about it but the restricted section at Hogwarts seems to have a little bit of everything, not just one topic? And since my library isn't usually full of eleven-year-olds I'm not sure why I'd need one. (I mean. I probably do have enough books about sex and/or black magic to have one.)
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I think what's fascinating me about the version I'm playing with, though, is how different things are if the Soldier gets to re-learn Steve without having to fight his orders - if his orders are "Make Steve happy and don't let him get involved in anything dangerous" he could basically get almost 100% back to standard fanon Bucky without ever having to actually fight his orders, and that changes things in... interesting ways.