I would love to keep them all, but I just can't. There isn't room. But mostly, I don't get rid of any book till I've read it twice.
River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems. Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
'Safe'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - Jul 08, 2004 11:32:26 am PDT #4845 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Connie Neil - Jul 08, 2004 11:38:28 am PDT #4846 of 10002
brillig
Yes. Yes, I do. I can't explain it, I can't really logically justify it...I need all those books right there where I can look at them and feel the weight of their words and knowledge and stories and wisdom. It makes this place my Home and it makes me feel at peace.
Yup.
Though in recent past I've been able to go to my shelves, pull down three or four books, and give someone a complete answer with example and citations for some school work. "Oh!," they gasped. "It's just like a real library!"
Uh, yeah.
Jesse - Jul 08, 2004 11:39:52 am PDT #4847 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Seriously, you guys, don't leave your books at your parents'. They disappear before you have the chance to get them.
Connie Neil - Jul 08, 2004 11:41:21 am PDT #4848 of 10002
brillig
"We figured you didn't want them anymore. Anyway, they were all old."
§ ita § - Jul 08, 2004 11:41:51 am PDT #4849 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My parents keep books I'd happily burn for warmth after running from the frost.
They didn't throw away anything I didn't take out of the house. Some is charmingly nostalgic, and some is a reminder of how crap my taste was.
I'm not much of a book-keeper myself. If it's not non-fiction, I have to like it a real lot to hang on.
sarameg - Jul 08, 2004 11:45:05 am PDT #4850 of 10002
Seriously, you guys, don't leave your books at your parents'.
Unless it is my parents' house.
The way they cull books when the shelves get full? They send them to me. Or to my aunts who eventually send them to me.
I'm now officially out of bookshelf space and wall space for bookshelves.
I think I may start sending some to a friend with very similar reading tastes.
Holli - Jul 08, 2004 11:45:13 am PDT #4851 of 10002
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I read more words than I ever have, I bet, and fewer books.
This. Between school, comics, and fanfic, far less of what I read comes in bound, made-of-paper, non-illustrated form. But overall, I'm reading far more.
Polter-Cow - Jul 08, 2004 11:46:22 am PDT #4852 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Though in recent past I've been able to go to my shelves, pull down three or four books, and give someone a complete answer with example and citations for some school work. "Oh!," they gasped. "It's just like a real library!"
Uh, yeah.
A friend of mine was talking about Borders' summer reading list (buy three, get one free), and how she was just noting the names of the books so she could read them. She mentioned On the Road, and I said, "Oh, I have that," and grabbed it for from the bookshelf. Then she said Siddhartha, and I said, "I have that too," and got it for her as well. It was pretty awesome.
Tam - Jul 08, 2004 11:50:05 am PDT #4853 of 10002
"...Singing their heads off, protected by the holy ghosts, flying in from the ocean, driving with their eyes closed." - Patty Griffin "Florida"
I need all those books right there where I can look at them and feel the weight of their words and knowledge and stories and wisdom.
It's like we're crows and books are shiny things.
Kate P. - Jul 08, 2004 11:53:58 am PDT #4854 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
When I was travelling, I'd send books that I'd finished to my parents' house rather than sell them or carry them around with me. I must have sent home four or five boxes in less than a year. It's like MM said: I just like having them around. It makes my house feel like my home. I remember when I was a personal assistant a few years ago, and I couldn't figure out why I always felt a little uneasy in my boss's house, until I realized it was because she had no books. No books!