Clearing out my bookshelves
Posted: January 20th, 2018, 4:06 pm
I've done it! I've finally done it! I have taken the proverbial axe to my stash of books, many of them dating from my university days almost half a century ago. I've created four or five yards of wide open new shelf space, so now maybe I can have something a bit more visually attractive on my shelves than Marcuse's Sexual Dynamics, or the Dialectics of Pre-Enlightenment Brandenburg, or the blatherings of 200 years' worth of German romantic poets, who I always hated anyway?
I've sorted out everything that'll probably find a welcome in the charity shops. (No, sadly I don't really think Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein and Hegel will have the housewives fighting among themselves.) I've kept any books that I particularly loved for their clarity and significance, and I've put all the rude ones far out of my granddaughter's reach. I've got my treasured (and unread) copy of Mao's Little Red Book, which now sits incongruously in a drawer alongside the lump of concrete that I chiselled out of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And what I've got left is....
....about 200 kilos of literally useless books, fit only for pulp. Half of them in German - and actually, most of the rest are incomprehensible in other ways. (The sixties were like that. ) All I have to do now is figure out what to do with the stuff. Will the council take them as paperbacks, and will I have to rip the covers off the hardbacks? Would be great to hear of anyone else who's been down that road. Any advice?
TIA
BJ
I've sorted out everything that'll probably find a welcome in the charity shops. (No, sadly I don't really think Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein and Hegel will have the housewives fighting among themselves.) I've kept any books that I particularly loved for their clarity and significance, and I've put all the rude ones far out of my granddaughter's reach. I've got my treasured (and unread) copy of Mao's Little Red Book, which now sits incongruously in a drawer alongside the lump of concrete that I chiselled out of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And what I've got left is....
....about 200 kilos of literally useless books, fit only for pulp. Half of them in German - and actually, most of the rest are incomprehensible in other ways. (The sixties were like that. ) All I have to do now is figure out what to do with the stuff. Will the council take them as paperbacks, and will I have to rip the covers off the hardbacks? Would be great to hear of anyone else who's been down that road. Any advice?
TIA
BJ