A bookslut like me always looking for reasons to keep the books after I read them.
"I feel connected when I read this book."
Who didn't feel connected with one of many characters we've come across if we love reading?
"I love the main character. She reminded of me when I was in high school. A rebellious. Always got into trouble."
Who were not rebellious when they were younger?
Bla...bla...bla.....bla..........
I choke myself with excuses to keep them until they take over my tiny apartment. They were all over the place.
I think I sold almost a hundred books on ebay since 2006. I read those books but they didn't move me, so I didn't have separation anxiety everytime I mailed one or two books to a respective buyers.
Between a long Christmas lweekend ast year and a new year holiday I built two book shelves. I asked the housing management about their regulations. They gave me a thumb up.
While holiday shoppers rushed to Macy's, TJ Max, Marshalls and Filene Basement, I was pushing a shopping cart up and down on aisles at Home Depot with a list in my hand.
I bought my first toolbox when I moved into my apartment many years ago. A few years later I bought a Black &Decker cordless drill that came with high torque screwdriving and high speed drilling when I wanted to do some fixing around my aparment.
I wanted to build something simple, something didn't require too much of my time but it would last.
Shopping at Home Depot turned out to be a lot of fun. Besides getting a bunch of gracious offers from guys (shoppers)to help me to choose types of drill bits, anchors I learned that shopping for tools could be confusing (for me) too.
A young man who adivsed to get 1.5" anchor looked perplexed when I insisted to sales person to get me blue anchor instead of grey.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because I like blue."
His friend who asked me if I already had a stud finder rolled his eyes goodnaturedly when he heard my response.
"Young man, don't you roll your eyes at me." I pretended to scold him.
They chuckled and continued their shopping.
By the end of first week year 2009, I got tw0 book shelves on the wall. Up until now, they are still up there on the wall.
Do you keep your books in any kinds of order? alphabatize by authors ha ha .
We went thru our bookshelf and I made the kids pack the books that they enjoyed when there were little and gave some to my nephews and gave some to friends. We take great care in deciding which ones will go where depending on how they will be cared for. FUnny isn't it.
Posted by: Azah | February 21, 2009 at 09:48 PM
So hard to let go of our book-friends...but we need to make room for new ones too.
Are you all better now, Ana? When I was sick recently I missed my Mak so much too. Hugs to you. And the amaryllis is gorgeous!
Posted by: beth | February 20, 2009 at 01:04 PM
So what was your response to that studfinder question?
Just curious.
Posted by: Gurindam Jiwa | February 20, 2009 at 03:03 AM
ana, i dont know whether i want to admire you for the neat, huge collection of books or the shopping at home depot :)
wow! such a collection you have there.
Posted by: mama rock | February 18, 2009 at 09:50 PM
I was just talking about this with a colleague a few days ago. I'm not sentimental - I can get rid of books no problem (maybe I'm heartless?). I'll keep the ones I truly love, where maybe there's a passage in them that I think is brilliant. But even then, I have way too many books than I have space for!
Posted by: Diz | February 15, 2009 at 01:31 PM