Dorothy Rosby is the author of Alexa’s a Spy and Other Things to Be Ticked off About, Humorous Essays on the Hassles of Our Time and other books. Contact her at www. dorothyrosby.com/contact.
We have two bookcases in our home organized carefully using the home library version of the Dewey Decimal System: They’re arranged by book size. It’s not always easy to locate what you’re looking for, but it does look really pretty.
We have a third bookcase hidden away in our office where our guests won’t see it and judge us harshly. It doesn’t look pretty at all. There are books sticking out every…