Maybe the laundromat route is the best.
I've both picked up and dropped off books in a laundromat that I would have been too ashamed to buy/sell at a used bookstore. Like, I have a book of poetry by Dag Hammarskjold (yes, the deceased former secretary-general of the UN), that reads like vogon poetry. I picked it up in the laundry room of a building I used to live in. Completely unmemorable potboiler-thriller-romances (I think) books that my sister or mother have left in my house have been left by me in laundry rooms.
Thank goodness for them. It burns my soul to throw books away, even other people's crap books.
In my old building, people would leave stacks of old books in the laundry room. Excellent way to unload guilt-free, and it made doing the laundry a lot more appealing when you might find some good stuff.
The only books I've ever tossed...well, let's just say there was nothing else to be done. I had a moment of silence for them, though.
I had a copy of "Grunts" by Mary Gentle (damned funny and sick sci-fi), which I leant to someone. It disappeared. A couple of years later, I'm in Philadelphia, and in the laundry room of the boarding house I find a copy of "Grunts." It came home to Utah and doesn't get leant out.
"Throw me another elf, this one's split."
This is mostly the result of culling out books I bought when I was younger and had less taste.
Ah. I really need to do this, myself. As well as culling out duplicate copies and the stack of Crappy Books I Have Acquired Unintentionally.
I need to do this to make room for the ginormous stack of to-be-read books, as well as to make room for my comics. And manga, curse wee Micole!
I'm thinking I'll have a "Free Books!" post on livejournal sometime soon, see how many I can get rid of that way.
What happens with books is there are scenes I adore that I want to keep so I can re-read them--I dogear my books, they're my books, they're not rare, so pffth!--but I don't want to keep the whole book. Tearing out the section I like is the grossest vandalism to me, and sometimes I flip through and read other sections. So I keep books I don't intend to re-read for the sake of a few pages.
My sister in law thinks that
Ron and Kelly
are going to win it all on TAR. This is based on the promo. I'm
not happy.
Some of the most well-read students of Christian theology I've met have called themselves Satanists. I tell them they're just Christian heretics, and they pout and go away in a huff.
