our not quite 8' by 8' bookcases were full before we finished them. Dh was surprised, I was not. What did surprise me that when it comes to keeping books - I am the one responsible mostly for that. oops.
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
beth b - Sep 23, 2007 11:11:24 am PDT #3931 of 28212
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Scrappy - Sep 23, 2007 11:49:55 am PDT #3932 of 28212
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
After lugging them around for four different moves, the DH has decided to give up his (about three feet of shelf space) hardback Robert Parker books. This is more due to him being a completist and not liking them much anymore, than it is to sacrifice, but still--three feet! The three feet won't last long, of course, as we are going to take them to a local used bookstore and see what we can trade them for.
sumi - Sep 23, 2007 12:12:52 pm PDT #3933 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!
But still - whoo hoo 3 feet of new books. That's even more books if you get paperbacks instead of hardcover.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2007 3:30:34 pm PDT #3934 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't feel much pull to hang on to most of the fiction I read. There are some to-keep authors, like Brust, or some that are mostly to-keep (I'm ditching Fledgling--I'd like to pretend it doesn't exist) but mostly I am all about the non-fiction books (love/lust/need) and the more coffee-tablish they are, the more I love them.
I have no coffee tables.
Emily - Sep 24, 2007 4:52:53 am PDT #3935 of 28212
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
All my shelving space is full. On the other hand, I could probably cull some of it... again.
Or just throw out the diary from 15 years ago that I can't even look at without cringing. You think?
Jars - Sep 24, 2007 4:53:54 am PDT #3936 of 28212
I just threw out my teenage years diary. It had stopped making me cringe a while back, but it was taking up space while moving, so it got culled.
Volans - Sep 24, 2007 6:38:13 am PDT #3937 of 28212
move out and draw fire
For the first time ever, we have two coffee table books on our coffee table. It's weird.
Laga - Sep 24, 2007 5:03:19 pm PDT #3938 of 28212
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I could never bring myself to throw out any of my diaries. There is much cringeworthiness but they're also part of me.
Consuela - Sep 24, 2007 8:19:46 pm PDT #3939 of 28212
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am bothered, though, by the curious ingratitude of authors who exploit a common fund of imagery while pretending to have nothing to do with the fellow-authors who created it and left it open to all who want to use it. A little return generosity would hardly come amiss.
How much do I love Ursula LeGuin? So very much.
Toddson - Sep 25, 2007 4:00:33 am PDT #3940 of 28212
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I am de-booking myself. sigh. I'm going to miss some of them, but a lot of them are books I'll never read again and they're just occupying space. I hauled three shopping bags full to the library for their book sale ... when I wandered by (you thought I was going to miss a book sale? silly!) I found I kept reaching for books and then thinking "no, I brought that one".