I have winnowed out over a hundred books from my shelves to donate or give away. It's always hard to see them go, but I need the space.
When my wife and I moved from Japan to Canada in 1999, we shipped over 100 boxes at great expense, and over half of them contained books. Those boxes were met by 30 or 40 more boxes of books that had sat in my mother's garage for the 14 years I lived in Japan.
Last week, nearly five years after we arrived in Canada, I finally unpacked the last half-dozen boxes, and something had to give.
Last summer I managed to toss a couple of hundred old textbooks and useless tomes on the Soviet Union and Eastern European history. At one point in my life I'd thought I'd be a Kremlinologist :-).
This latest batch includes a pile of Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Robert Ludlum and other assorted novels. Why keep them when I'll never re-read any of them? A bunch of books on running -- my back hasn't been able to take pavement-pounding for years now....
There are several hundred more books that could go, but this is enough for the moment.
Posted by Paul at March 17, 2004 07:16 PM