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Boomerang books
Sep. 17th, 2005 07:40 pmSometime last year, I had purged the bookshelves and deposited 4 grocery bags + 1 box of books in the garage. I had hoped to trudge them off to either the local used book store or another resting place, but I never got around to it and never got around to it.
Time passes. Leaves fall. Grass grows. The bookstore is no more. But lo, the garage needs rearranging in preparation for winter, and it's time for me to think about finding those books a new home. I found plenty of addys to which to send books for Katrina evacuees, and decided to box up and ready the shipment. But dust had gathered since the initial storage, which necessitated my going through the bags and box and dusting...
...which was a mistake.
The lesser Ian Rankins have been reclaimed. The Kip Thorne book on black holes and such was deemed a keeper, even though I have never cracked it, for the simple reason that, well, it's by Kip Thorne. A couple books on the nature of consciousness. A book on exorcisms. A collection of short stories by Stephen King, and another by Stanley Ellin, the guy who wrote, among other things, "Specialty of the House," which was the basis for a pretty good episode of the old Alfred Hitchcock hour.
The erotic horror is still gone. The copy of DaVinci Code. The JD Robbs, which were nice for one read through, but aren't my flavor of keeper. And a couple of waaay the hell over my head what was I thinking quantum mechanics books because I'm betting that some kid out there will fall all over them like the answer to a prayer.
Time passes. Leaves fall. Grass grows. The bookstore is no more. But lo, the garage needs rearranging in preparation for winter, and it's time for me to think about finding those books a new home. I found plenty of addys to which to send books for Katrina evacuees, and decided to box up and ready the shipment. But dust had gathered since the initial storage, which necessitated my going through the bags and box and dusting...
...which was a mistake.
The lesser Ian Rankins have been reclaimed. The Kip Thorne book on black holes and such was deemed a keeper, even though I have never cracked it, for the simple reason that, well, it's by Kip Thorne. A couple books on the nature of consciousness. A book on exorcisms. A collection of short stories by Stephen King, and another by Stanley Ellin, the guy who wrote, among other things, "Specialty of the House," which was the basis for a pretty good episode of the old Alfred Hitchcock hour.
The erotic horror is still gone. The copy of DaVinci Code. The JD Robbs, which were nice for one read through, but aren't my flavor of keeper. And a couple of waaay the hell over my head what was I thinking quantum mechanics books because I'm betting that some kid out there will fall all over them like the answer to a prayer.
