The Library

We have so many books, really, just hundreds of them. I can barely give a single one of them up, even the cheap-ass halo backstory novel and the even cheaper Alias backstory books, of which I have two. (It was nice to see Sydney a young gal at college.) When we moved, WE put most of the books into storage months before. This helped in getting the house less full of crap, and easier to do all of the improvements we had said we were going to do on moving into it five years ago. But I missed the books, everyday. At least once, sometimes twice, I thought of a bit of information, or wanted to show someone something, and I knew exactly what book it was in, and that it was in the storage unit. Killed me. Now that we're settled in again, I am starting with A of the fiction section and reading all the way through. I do this every few years to ensure that the books I don't re-read every year- like the Lord of the Rings, or the Dune books, or His Dark Materials- are still worth keeping. If I get to a point in the process where I am faced with a book I don't want to read, off it goes. I just finished Watership Down last night, the first book on the shelf.

Also read this week are: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Attwood. Fabulous!
The Daguerreotype, by Patrick Gregory. I'm glad it's over. Not a
terrible book, but close to it.

The next book in line is the Oresteian trilogy, by Aeschylus. Yum.

I got a shareware version of Doom last night and played it like crazy. Man I love that game. I wish our computer was able to run the latest edition, but you can only do so much with an eight year old machine. Halo runs, but just barely, and usually without sound. Also, now we only have one working computer, and we can no longer play Quake against each other. Maybe when Star Wars Battlefront II comes down in price we'll pick that up and then blast each other to smithereens. Fun fun fun. And the Nightmare Before Christmas game looks so great! And leggo Star Wars! I can actually play that one with the little boy. We played it at a neighbor's house that we were looking after (and their cats), and we finished it, but I totally want to play it again co-opratively. It seemed like there were things you just needed another player to get done.