Culling

[theatokos]

Adam and I just culled at least 25% of our books. It was easy. We've always struggled with what to keep, what to get rid of; we've been very stingy. We really must be ready to leave because it was just bam, zap, pow. Comic books, fiction, poetry, women's history, loads of poker books...

(I won't pay for shipping or type them all out, but if you're a real book hoarder I can email you my phone number and we can go through them and if you pay for shipping, I'll totally give them to you!)

My goal now is to work through the books I haven't read that I decided to keep. Hardcovers first, then paperbacks. We are planning to do another cull closer to when we move. Whenever that is.

Comments

[erinya.livejournal.com]

I could use some books! Maybe not poker books, but everything else sounds good.

You know, I should just come down to Oakland sometime soon without anything else on my plate and just hang out...once you're in Wales, it's going to be so much harder to visit you! (Although it will give me an excellent excuse to finally make that trip to the British Isles...)

[queen-of-wands.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. And I'm glad you didn't list the titles, because I totally don't need more books. My bookshelves are overstuffed as it is.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

Good for you! I have to do something similar...I did so a few years ago, and I haven't bought a lot of books since, but I feel like I don't need all these books I don't look at.

[keypike.livejournal.com]

Poker books! Yours, Adam's or both? We've got our own shelf full of them.

I used to find it quite difficult to part with books, even ones that I didn't really enjoy. I'm not sure what changed, but now I can get rid of them quite easily, and I only keep the ones I really love.

[ladyartemisa.livejournal.com]

i would cry if we got rid of books.

[honeyrider.livejournal.com]

i'm really glad you're not listing titles because i know we don't need more books. before we moved, we cleared out about 60 books and threw out a huge bookshelf. when we were unpacking i thought we'd be able to get away with one less bookshelf -- yea right. we had to buy a replica of the one we threw out.

what did i miss? where are you moving too?