As we are cleaning out the house, the time has come to release more of my library. < heavy sigh >
We simply don’t have the room for the books. This is a tragedy upon an epic scale, to be sure. All I can say is that it isn’t hoarding if it is books.
We took the four boxes of books to the local Half-Price Books. I hauled them in, dropped them off at the buy counter, then browsed the store as they evaluated the books and determined how much they would give me for them.
I almost immediately found four books in the role-playing games section I would have liked. I kept them in mind, but as my group has been separated by time and distance they were a lower priority. Also, I was going to be limited to the amount he store gave me in credit if I was to purchase any new books.
There is something about wandering large shelves stuffed with books that feeds my soul and puts me at peace. I think all I ever really wanted to do for a profession is run a bookstore. Although I think I might end up like Aziraphale in Good Omens and I wouldn’t actually sell any books. I’d just have a really big bookstore for me. OK, maybe I’d sell some books to the truly deserving. Maybe I’d have something like the sign posted over The Academy in ancient Greece – ‘let no one enter here who knows no Shakespeare’.
I went on to find five more books, a set of DVDs of MythBusters, and a David St. Hubbins figure from Spinal Tap. I didn’t want the figure of David St. Hubbins, I just thought it was funny.
After what seemed like an all too short time, they announced my name over the store public announcement system that my offer was ready. I went and collected my credit, and after seeing how much it was for, went back among the shelves to get three books. I took them to the front counter, checked out, and came home.
Yes, acquiring more books as I’m having to get rid of half my library. It helps ease the pain of loss, but only by a small amount. It is the only thing that makes the act semi-tolerable.
Anyway, since I know you are curious, my Hordeling, the books I acquired are:
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Vol. 2 (including The Way of Perfection, Meditations on the Song of Songs, and The Interior Castle)
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff (picked out by the wife)
Side note: I just found out the other day that St. Teresa of Avila is the Patron Saint of Chess.
So little time, so much to read.
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