About all the moves I've made in the last eight years or so, is losing my books.

Not all of them, by any means, my two big bookshelves are still lined double-deep and full to overflowing...

But enough. All my Witchworld books are gone. And I had most of that series---the major parts, anyway. I really liked the Crystal Gryphon ones. And I keep going to look for Discworld books and not finding them. I'm fairly sure I've owned them, some even in hardcover (how do you lose hardcovers, dammit?), but they're JUST NOT THERE. Dammit.

Of course it couldn't be the Mercedes Lackey or Anne McCaffery books, that I'm unlikely to re-read, that disappear. No, those ones seem to stick around. Not that that's a bad thing... the Anne McCafferies in particular I mostly stole, um, liberated, um, inherited from my father's collection, and I'd feel bad for losing them. I feel bad enough for reading half of those old paperbacks to tatters back when I was 12. I know at least one or two of the Discworlds are at my mom's, but there's more missing than I can account for. And there should be several Patricia C. Wrede books, too, now I think about it, that I don't think I've seen in half a decade or so.

What gets me the most is HOW do these things disappear? I mean, you move into a place, the stuff is there, you move out, you box EVERYTHING up, you do a last go over and you haven't left anything, the truck goes straight to the new place and all the boxes come out... yet still stuff disappears. /sigh.

But just misssing from the Discworld alone...
Hmm, I think one ex-roommate might still have the three-volume hardcover with Colour of Magic, Light Fantastic, and, was it Sourcery? in it. My mom still has Mort, somewhere or other. She might conceivably have Soul Music, as well. Wyrd Sisters I should have in hardcover, and it's missing. Guards! Guards!, a ratty old ex-public-library paperback, is missing. Small Gods is missing, again in hardcover, as is Witches Abroad. Others... well, I'm a little hazier on whether I should actually own them or had just borrowed them from a library. Definitely books I SHOULD own. The whole damn series is one I can read over, and over, and over again, and my kids are almost old enough I could even start reading it to them...

Yeah, just what I need... more books.