announcing the death of A to Z

A while back we were reading Books in Bed, a very cool blog, and we were thunderstruck with admiration when we saw blogger Denise's photos of her bookshelves. She recently rearranged them by color. This is silly, impractical, and totally inspired. Not only does such an arrangement make your shelves look fantastic, but it also provides a great left-brain workout...when you're looking for a specific book, you just tap into your visual memory and recall the dark red of your old used Catcher in the Rye paperback, or the sky blue of that Infinite Jest you never finished. And it turns your personal library into a rainbow-colored candy shop. Think about it: isn't alphabetical order just an arbitrary construct anyhow, not to mention a total snore?