May Week -- weekend of librarianship

Just before may week, numberland (who is cuddly) stopped over at the weekend, and introduced me to some anime, and helped me resort my books.

My bookshelves had got a bit out of sync. We went through them, and all the boxes in the spare room, working out what should be *out*.

There's no complete system any more, "out" translates to a mix of: favourites to recommend, recent favourites to reread, old acquisitions I'd like to see again or never read, new books.

Do you sort books qualitatively?

Unfortunately, it looses the "This is the bookshelf I recommend" thing. It was good to have it, but it doesn't quite work because (a) new and reread books go on there so it gets mixed up (b) many authors are kept together, so series move on and off as a unit and (c) it's hard to fairly compare recent acquisitions with old classics.

I could keep separate them into "great" and "others", but I know they'd get muddled up.

The other pizza express

We regularly go to Pizza Express by Parker's Piece for geek pizza, but it's been years since I went to the one on Jesus Lane.

I *do* like the décor. It has aspirations to be an shiny temple lined with old books :)

The menu is the same.

However, we were in the main section and it was loud, actually hard to hear what my soft-spoken friends were saying, and the waitress was unfortunately hurried -- though that's possibly because I'm not part of a group known as regulars spending £7k a year there.