Our one-bedroom, two-writer apartment has books on all surfaces.  If there’s a system, maybe it’s emotional proximity.

We don’t alphabetize (”I always know exactly where each book is!”).  But we verticalize.

Favorites stay up where they’re visible (Aww, Freckles!!).  The books at the tops of the stacks are the most recently worked on.

Denise Dooley is interested in unconventional writing-training and presently developing a writers’ group at the Chicago Underground Library. Her poetry and fiction appeared recently in Court Green, Shampoo, Two With Water, and online at http://tacks.freehostia.com.

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Tags: bookshelf series, Cataloging, Denise Dooley, w.org

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