Me, too. I'm a buy-and-hold person. It's come back to bite me, though, and I'm culling my collection now—at least of books I neither enjoyed nor admired. I tell myself it makes more room for more good stuff. (Every possible wall of my office is jammed with shelves, the upstairs hall is lined with them, there are shelves in every bedroom, the room with the kids' computer is lined with their books, there are books in the dining room and family room, and shelves next to the living room fireplace. . . . And still piles of unshelved books in corners. )Impenitent wrote:Primula Baggins wrote:People must buy them, read them, and sell them back.
How horrifying! I cannot for the life of me understand how they can bear to let them go! But then, that goes for any good book. I need them with me forever, yesss, preciousss.
Still, though—Mr. Prim and I watch those home-redecorating shows and are creeped out by how many people live in gigantic, luxurious houses with NOT A BOOK IN SIGHT! They have banks of gorgeous built-in bookshelves lined with tchotchkes some decorator bought for them and nary a book. And often there is no place to read—lamps next to chairs interrupt the flow, I guess, and possibly make those annoying little reflections in the TV picture.
They would be so much better off if they bought and read some nice Georgette Heyer!