Kitchen table covered with books

These two photos reflect the dilemma in my kitchen. The table is covered with books that I have used in writing the last several chapters on which I worked. But it has been several weeks since I finished the last one, and yet the stacks of books, note cards and other materials remain. The book case was filled before I started writing--containing books that I planned to use for the writing that I was doing. About half of the books were from the library, so I should be able to return some of those, rather than waiting until May and needing a shopping cart to return them.

For today, my assignment from Mary Jo is to spend 20 minutes cleaning and organizing a book case. So, I have chosen the above to do that. When I have finished, I will post the AFTER shot below this entry. It should look somewhat different (hopefully the table will as well!). Here goes:-)