A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine sent me these pictures and text message: My response: And she wasn't even sorry! I had some things to finish first, so it took me about an hour to get out of my house. By the time I got to the sale, someone had purchased two entire bookcases of the books, but there were still many, many titles to go through. You see, my … [Read more...]
Books I want to re-read
While cataloging and arranging my home library recently, I ran across several books I haven’t read in a long while. Of course, that’s the majority of them, right? But a few I marked as ones I want to re-read. But first, why re-read? Because yes, I have sooooo many books waiting to be read for the first time! 1, I re-read for the sake of nostalgia. This happens when I rediscover a book that … [Read more...]
The Stories in Old Books
As you know, I’ve been cataloguing the books in my library. I got about half done via barcode, but the other half? Too old for barcodes! So I’ve been inputting them manually, little by little. The other day I did a shelf of Grace Livingston Hill novels. I have a ton of them! Most are reprints from the 1970s-1990s, but a few are the old, hardbound books with fragile pages. As I carefully flipped to … [Read more...]