But still - whoo hoo 3 feet of new books. That's even more books if you get paperbacks instead of hardcover.
That's not what making out sounds like -- unless I'm doing it wrong?
Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
sumi - Sep 23, 2007 12:12:52 pm PDT #3933 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!
§ 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".
meara - Sep 25, 2007 5:11:34 am PDT #3941 of 28212
Ooh, what library, Toddson? Where? Are there limits on donations? I need a place to take a lot of books!
Volans - Sep 25, 2007 5:33:31 am PDT #3942 of 28212
move out and draw fire
Why do I suspect that LeGuin's review is better written and nicer to read than the book she's reviewing? I do love the phrase "openly commits genre."