Three books that are already on my shelves and will be forever: Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner. Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver. The Overstory, Richard Powers.
I love this. I am probably a collector but not one interested in monetary value. My Mary Kate and Ashley magazines attest. I did find a hardcover first of Flannery’s short stories for 7 dollars once.
I had to split independent book day into Friday and Saturday so I could get to at least two stores. So I went to Exile in Bookville on Michigan Avenue in Chicago for the first time. It’s an awesome bookstore. I’ve been in a reading slump and I got great help and suggestions. So I bought Straight Man by Richard Russo (which I have now started reading) and White Magic by Elissa Washuta . On Saturday I went to Bookie’s in Beverly (Chicago), also great bookstore and great help. I bought The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chestnutt , In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch and 1001 Afternoons In Chicago by Ben Hecht
Culling books is always hard - and - in the past few years I’ve been doing more and more of it. I move too much and I’m tired of boxes of “heavy” reading. So things I thought I’d never part with are gone. Including the books I used for teaching Humanities. Those were hard to let go of but, like you, the chance that I’ll teach again is slim. The only problem with culling? Those occasions when I spend way too much time looking for something I forgot I gave away and then lamenting that I did. Alas
Three books that are already on my shelves and will be forever: Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner. Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver. The Overstory, Richard Powers.
I love this. I am probably a collector but not one interested in monetary value. My Mary Kate and Ashley magazines attest. I did find a hardcover first of Flannery’s short stories for 7 dollars once.
I had to split independent book day into Friday and Saturday so I could get to at least two stores. So I went to Exile in Bookville on Michigan Avenue in Chicago for the first time. It’s an awesome bookstore. I’ve been in a reading slump and I got great help and suggestions. So I bought Straight Man by Richard Russo (which I have now started reading) and White Magic by Elissa Washuta . On Saturday I went to Bookie’s in Beverly (Chicago), also great bookstore and great help. I bought The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chestnutt , In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch and 1001 Afternoons In Chicago by Ben Hecht
Culling books is always hard - and - in the past few years I’ve been doing more and more of it. I move too much and I’m tired of boxes of “heavy” reading. So things I thought I’d never part with are gone. Including the books I used for teaching Humanities. Those were hard to let go of but, like you, the chance that I’ll teach again is slim. The only problem with culling? Those occasions when I spend way too much time looking for something I forgot I gave away and then lamenting that I did. Alas