Yes, but over that book?
Though the weather has been glorious - sunny, breezy, warm - I decided I really needed to dig out the sweaters and the quilts and get ready for colder weather. Which wouldn't really be hard except for all the other stuff I have in my closets. This tiny house has only two clothes closets, and those are the old fashioned, small kind. Still, I am whatever the opposite of a clotheshorse is, so more than enough. If I didn't have boxes of books and such in both closets.
So radical decision: closets are only for clothes and shoes and everything else is out of the house. Not everything, I replaced a side table with a bookshelf, and determined all books not currently in bookshelves would either find a place on one of my bookshelves would be gone. Sorted out the books I love, I actually read, or are beautiful, and opened the rest up to my friends.
And many, many found new homes; but only book nearly caused a fistfight to break out: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester. Now, I liked the book, it's a good read on a fascinating subject; but the book has been out for almost ten years and is available at any bookstore or library. If you really wanted to read about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, this was hardly your only chance.
Speaking of books, may I recommend The Sword Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe? A wonderful combination of swords and sorcery fantasy with Raymond Chandleresque narrator. And with bonus points for anyone from Wisconsin - a lot of the place names will sound terribly familiar. The author is originally from Tennessee and thought Wisconsin's combination of Native American and French place names sounded exotic, so people live in Necedah and travel to Poi Sippi and Antigo and the like. Very good, wonderful read.
So radical decision: closets are only for clothes and shoes and everything else is out of the house. Not everything, I replaced a side table with a bookshelf, and determined all books not currently in bookshelves would either find a place on one of my bookshelves would be gone. Sorted out the books I love, I actually read, or are beautiful, and opened the rest up to my friends.
And many, many found new homes; but only book nearly caused a fistfight to break out: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester. Now, I liked the book, it's a good read on a fascinating subject; but the book has been out for almost ten years and is available at any bookstore or library. If you really wanted to read about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, this was hardly your only chance.
Speaking of books, may I recommend The Sword Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe? A wonderful combination of swords and sorcery fantasy with Raymond Chandleresque narrator. And with bonus points for anyone from Wisconsin - a lot of the place names will sound terribly familiar. The author is originally from Tennessee and thought Wisconsin's combination of Native American and French place names sounded exotic, so people live in Necedah and travel to Poi Sippi and Antigo and the like. Very good, wonderful read.