The Winnowing of the Books
Jan. 10th, 2017 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerI have come into possession of a pair of bookshelves, so I decided it was time to move my books from my parents' house down to my apartment. And, as I was going to have to get them all off the shelves and box them up anyway, I figured that I might as well sort them.
There were a lot of books.
What surprised me most was that I actually found quite a number that I haven't read. Now admittedly, some of these were children's books that my mother bought for us lo these many years ago and we simply never got around to reading them, but still. I now have an actual physical unread book pile!
It is a bit intimidating. I only transported some of the unread books to Indianapolis with me, as I figured that having the whole pile constantly under my eye might give me vapors.
I haven not yet managed to transfer all the books from my car into my room and thence onto the bookshelves, but once I do I will probably post pictures of that too. There's already a shelf and a half devoted to Isobelle Carmody. Why must she write such very long books?
There were a lot of books.
What surprised me most was that I actually found quite a number that I haven't read. Now admittedly, some of these were children's books that my mother bought for us lo these many years ago and we simply never got around to reading them, but still. I now have an actual physical unread book pile!
It is a bit intimidating. I only transported some of the unread books to Indianapolis with me, as I figured that having the whole pile constantly under my eye might give me vapors.
I haven not yet managed to transfer all the books from my car into my room and thence onto the bookshelves, but once I do I will probably post pictures of that too. There's already a shelf and a half devoted to Isobelle Carmody. Why must she write such very long books?
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