The Winnowing of the Books

[osprey_archer]

I 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?

Comments

[littlerhymes]

That is a lot of books! I'm really wishing for the 'enhance.. enhance...' feature here because I definitely want to read all the spines, haha.

I definitely spot The Little Prince though. HA!

[silverusagi]

Yep, that looks about like my room after I moved.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

So many books! :D I have an entire bookshelf only of unread books, which probably will eventually give me the vapors. I keep managing to get it lower, but then people buy me more for Christmas, or I see a fifty-cent used copy of a book I've been meaning to read and obviously I have to buy it, and...

And so it grows and grows.