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ARE YOU A BOOK HOARDER?

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Permalink Reply by Ursula on December 31, 2017 at 12:59pm

Interesting article, but I must admit I have never counted my books, but I do know I have made several book donations to my local library and each was easily over 200 books. At one time I had over 400 cookbooks and although I do like to cook, I finally realized that I never actually used many of them and besides I needed the space on my shelves, so out they went.

How about the rest of you? Are you a book hoarder??

Permalink Reply by Lyn on December 31, 2017 at 1:37pm

most of my books now are in the cloud, which I expect to rain at any time. My daughter collects cookbooks but they are stored in a bookmobile we were lucky enough to purchase about 4 years ago. So not a lot of books in the house.........quite a few out in the barn......mostly on my kindle.

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Permalink Reply by rapa on December 31, 2017 at 2:04pm

I stand amazed!!!!! You have your own BOOKMOBILE!!!!!!! WHOOPPEE!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Lyn on December 31, 2017 at 2:05pm

it is kind of cool!

Lyn

Permalink Reply by rapa on December 31, 2017 at 2:14pm

That's the understatement of the year!!

When I was in grade school I put an orange crate upright on our curb with sign "LENDING LIBRARY", made little check out book cards. Didn't last long when my older brother found out I was loaning his books!

Permalink Reply by Ioruach on December 31, 2017 at 1:49pm

I never came remotely close to having the number that those famous book hoarders did. I probably had five or six hundred at one point. But when I sold my house and moved into this senior facility, I had to give them away. Those in the best shape, I donated to the library. Others I gave to a used book store nearby. I kept about 25 or 30 that I just couldn't part with. Now my reading consists almost solely of books borrowed from the library.

Permalink Reply by Baia on January 28, 2018 at 2:26pm

I'm in the process of clearing my house and condo. Books are the hardest to clear. Fourteen years ago I bought a condo intending to retire there. I brought my best and most favorite books there for my pleasure and now there are at least nine book cases of books there. In my house there are at least fourteen book cases full of books. I never thought to count them, but since I am clearing, it might be nice to establish a baseline. I have donated and sold for credit many bins of books over the years.

My experience of buying a condo for my books is not the most extreme case in my neighborhood. A friend of my daughter bought the house next door to them (when property values in Seattle were more reasonable) to keep their expanding library.

Now I am trying hard not to buy books except for a few well-loved authors that I want to be surrounded by in my last years. My most recent indulgence is assembling the collected Freddy the pig books of my childhood. Written by Walter R. Brooks, they helped form my core values as a child and I still enjoy reading them. Other modern authors I will never clear are Rumer Godden, Elizabeth Goudge, Terry Pratchett, Jan Karon, Alexander McCall Smith. There are others, but these are the most recent and ongoing. I was lucky to collect the entire rainbow fairy book series by Andrew Lang that was reprinted by the Folio Society. I gave the Blue Fairy Book to my grandson and started reading it to him, but I have kept back the rest for my personal pleasure. I will leave them to him when I die.

Permalink Reply by rapa on January 28, 2018 at 7:49pm

Baia, So good hearing from you! You are a true Bibliophile!

I no longer buy books and use the library constantly, reserving on-line. All my book shelves are full and my current reads are stacked by my bed as I'm a night reader.

Just finished a beautifully written, memorable book titled THE MEMORY OF US by Camille di Maio. The story takes place over many years starting in Liverpool and London WWII. This book is meaty with characters you won't forget.

BTW, I do buy books as gifts, especially for the great-grands!

Permalink Reply by Ioruach on January 29, 2018 at 10:06am

And what could be better gifts than books.

Permalink Reply by Lip Service on February 1, 2018 at 11:25pm