What's on your mind today?

[Velma]

The part of my library that resides in the living room consists of 610 books. I still have to catalog the books in the dining room and bedroom.

Woo!  I am both impressed and envious.  I did a book count during my apartment repairs last September and had 520.  In a frenzy of downsizing I donated about half of them to the library and have regretted it ever since.

I have done that in the past and still regret it.

I forgot to mention the e-books and audiobooks. Universe only knows how many of those I have.

[Sandra Craft]

I forgot to mention the e-books and audiobooks. Universe only knows how many of those I have.

I made a separate category on LibraryThing for my ebooks -- my only problem is remembering to add them!

[Icarus]

Velma, you appear to have the same affliction as me. I have a mountain of books all of which I am attached to. Recently we were remodeling our house. That meant that the contents had to be assigned to the garage. Holy Cow Batman! I did not know how many books that I had. Hundreds and hundreds of them.

You wanna know what is shameful? The majority of we American do not read. We piss our time away on game of thrones or some other activity that does little or nothing for our intellectual achievement...............Oh Shit, I am at the beginning of a rant. Whew! I'm glad I recognized that probability. 

Love your books but know that some of them have to go.  My cherished books lean heavily toward physics, math, geography, anthro pology,  and history. Well OK there are books by trouble makers like Dawkins, Harris, Avalos, Gable, and those guys  So little time, so much to learn.

[xSilverPhinx]

Velma, you appear to have the same affliction as me. I have a mountain of books all of which I am attached to. Recently we were remodeling our house. That meant that the contents had to be assigned to the garage. Holy Cow Batman! I did not know how many books that I had. Hundreds and hundreds of them.

You wanna know what is shameful? The majority of we American do not read. We piss our time away on game of thrones or some other activity that does little or nothing for our intellectual achievement...............Oh Shit, I am at the beginning of a rant. Whew! I'm glad I recognized that probability. 

Love your books but know that some of them have to go.  My cherished books lean heavily toward physics, math, geography, anthro pology,  and history. Well OK there are books by trouble makers like Dawkins, Harris, Avalos, Gable, and those guys  So little time, so much to learn.

Hey, I read Game of Thrones as well as watch the series.  

[Velma]

Velma, you appear to have the same affliction as me. I have a mountain of books all of which I am attached to. Recently we were remodeling our house. That meant that the contents had to be assigned to the garage. Holy Cow Batman! I did not know how many books that I had. Hundreds and hundreds of them.

You wanna know what is shameful? The majority of we American do not read. We piss our time away on game of thrones or some other activity that does little or nothing for our intellectual achievement...............Oh Shit, I am at the beginning of a rant. Whew! I'm glad I recognized that probability. 

Love your books but know that some of them have to go.  My cherished books lean heavily toward physics, math, geography, anthro pology,  and history. Well OK there are books by trouble makers like Dawkins, Harris, Avalos, Gable, and those guys  So little time, so much to learn.

But, but, but, I can't let them go! Well, I am getting rid of the few duplicates that I have.

(Okay, okay, I admit, I might have a teeny, tiny, problem.)

[Magdalena]

I also have the same problem. 
I still have the books I used to read to my daughter when she was only five years old--She's 26 years old now. Then, I bought **the boy books for my now 13 year old son. That's another 13 years of books. For the past five years, I've been collecting more books for my five year old son. I still have to go through the "retirement years" books. 

I just can't let go of them. 
...Please don't make me.

**boy books.
I wasn't being sexist, there's such a thing as "boy books." 


Why is it that we find it so hard to let go of our books? 

[Sandra Craft]

Why is it that we find it so hard to let go of our books? 

Speaking for myself, because I love them.  They're my friends who never disappoint me and tell me fascinating things.  Often from people dead for a hundred years or more, which I find nearly miraculous.  They're altogether wonderful.

[xSilverPhinx]

I sold most of my books when I moved south back in 2007. I only wish I had charged more for them.

[Asmodean]

Was at this summer party thing with my coworkers today. On the way back, the metro was invaded by a small army of out-of-their-minds-drunk teenagers and one of them was so far gone as to approach seriously dangerous. What did his friends do? Film him with their cell phones, pour beer on him and steal his shoes - when they were paying him any mind at all. Fortunately for him, one had the sense to recognize the seriousness of the situation and call his parents, scrape him off the floor and carry him off the train at the right stop.

...Those young friendships we look upon with such nostalgia as decades pass us by. Totally overrated. Except for those few who do come through in the end. Better late than never.

[Icarus]

Norweigian kids appear to be as fucked up as American kids.  I am sorry to hear of such stupidity among our youth or those of the Viking persuasion who we Americans want to believe are better disciplined. Those of us who are paying attention are flummoxed to learn that the Finnish kids are spectacularly superior academically to our own.

[Ali]

Going to Pride and a gay bar with some of my good friends tomorrow. I would have gone anyway because I never pass up on a chance to drink and dance and laugh with my friends, but it seems particularly fraught this year after the massacre in Orlando. When I texted my friend to ask her if she would go dancing with my fiancé and I, she called me to tell me that she and her girlfriend already had plans to go to Pride. She invited us to come along, but she flat out told me that she understands if I don't want to, that some of the LGBT friends in her circle are scared to go out. I'm not scared. The truth is, none of us are safe anywhere. People have been shot at a mall, at a movie theater, at churches, at Planned Parenthood clinics, at their schools, just walking down the street. Where could I go and be safe? So I choose not to be afraid, because what's the point. That's not why it's fraught. It's fraught because it occurs to me that probably every straight ally should be lining the walls at the gay clubs this month. We should be standing next to our LGBT friends, family members, coworkers, neighbors, countrymen, and fellow human beings. This fight belongs to all of us, and we should all be standing together in joy and love against darkness and anger. So we will go, and drink and dance and laugh. Because if someone wants to stop us from living, they're going to *have to* put a bullet in us.

[Bad Penny II]

Hello Ali, I'd get happy and dance about but I fear you'll just leave us again and I decided last time you left us it's best to guard against despondency by remaining in a constant fugue state. hope you're well

[Bad Penny II]

A couple of Mondays back I checked the weather predictions, 7 metre swell for the weekend.
An East coast low happened, a 17m state record was set down south.

I walked today, along the path a downed tree, I felt a pang, I'd taken pictures a number of times of a lace monitor in that tree.

Later another tree, the one I used lay under as a young'n reading the serious stuff.
The beach had gone to the dogs years ago, literally, it's a declared dog beach now.
Still a little bit sad though.



My tree was about 60m past the big rock on the right.


The lizard tree that now lies sadly horizontal

[Ali]

Hello Ali, I'd get happy and dance about but I fear you'll just leave us again and I decided last time you left us it's best to guard against despondency by remaining in a constant fugue state. hope you're well

I must be Bad Penny III since I never stay missing forever. I hope you're well too.

[Ali]

A couple of Mondays back I checked the weather predictions, 7 metre swell for the weekend.
An East coast low happened, a 17m state record was set down south.

I walked today, along the path a downed tree, I felt a pang, I'd taken pictures a number of times of a lace monitor in that tree.

Later another tree, the one I used lay under as a young'n reading the serious stuff.
The beach had gone to the dogs years ago, literally, it's a declared dog beach now.
Still a little bit sad though.



My tree was about 60m past the big rock on the right.

I'm sorry for your trees, but your beach looks amazing, dogs and all.