tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post62089520163618164..comments2024-03-27T17:03:57.341-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: The Start of a Book PurgeOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-80560538934331402472020-12-23T15:16:43.576-05:002020-12-23T15:16:43.576-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-80476807422026660152019-02-02T19:38:25.387-05:002019-02-02T19:38:25.387-05:00Yes, I will give books to Housing Works. I have c...Yes, I will give books to Housing Works. I have cookbooks, although I do not really cook. But they belonged to people who are important to me and so I can't part with them. Same with maps and books for hikers, and history books.<br />Kathy D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18418720666849497808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-41644768927320112502019-01-31T17:59:12.160-05:002019-01-31T17:59:12.160-05:00I purge my books when I run out of bookshelf space...I purge my books when I run out of bookshelf space, and, like Kathy D., I take the ones I can part with to the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. I don’t own a cookbook I can part with. The vast collection of art books that David and I amassed have been impossible to purge. A three-foot-high stack of the largest ones serve as an end table to one of my sofas. Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-32441024896555029802019-01-31T04:35:31.314-05:002019-01-31T04:35:31.314-05:00If you want to get rid of Madhur Jaffrey's An ...If you want to get rid of Madhur Jaffrey's An Invitation to Indian Cooking, please save it for me. It has been my go-to for forty years, and I keep giving away my copies to friends who promise to return them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-8704788594034898972019-01-31T04:24:42.958-05:002019-01-31T04:24:42.958-05:00I have a lot books, but I brought many to the loca...I have a lot books, but I brought many to the local library a few years ago. And soon I will bring several to a charity which helps people with HIV/AIDS with housing. They will not go to waste.<br /><br />I keep favorite books or those I was given by family members or inherited or books of former partners. I definitely can't part with some of them, but others I can give away.Kathy D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18418720666849497808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-48582598955173074162019-01-30T16:39:49.712-05:002019-01-30T16:39:49.712-05:00I read her book. I put all my tee shirts in a pile...I read her book. I put all my tee shirts in a pile and got rid of 75% of them. Did the same with shoes. Started with books as I gathered them, I started to re-read them. So they all went back on the shelf for another day.Caro Ramsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08499318515241879831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-70600421147620864232019-01-30T10:43:34.918-05:002019-01-30T10:43:34.918-05:00I just wrote a very lengthy comment on how much I ...I just wrote a very lengthy comment on how much I admire your skills at de-hoarding, but it disappeared off my screen! I was talking of how my own office is floor to ceiling filled with shelves stacked with thirty-plus year-old mystery paperbacks, and how I can't bring myself to toss any of them because I view them as patient friends. Friends who sat there oh so many years watching me putter along as a lawyer, subtly calling out by their simple presence, "You could write one of us." How can I abandon them after all they've done for me? Especially since I've just added four (more) standing book cases for their far more recently acquired, sleek hardcover cousins. Hmm, perhaps it is time to read Marie Kondo's book.Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-25993825459998193332019-01-30T05:39:05.862-05:002019-01-30T05:39:05.862-05:00very very nice blog.....very very nice blog.....travel write for ushttps://funtravellers.com/write-for-us/noreply@blogger.com