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January, 2013

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I am using this group to track the books I am literally removing from my shelves & home. Using the group ROOT to track the books I am reading from my shelves. These are both very helpful groups.




Tonight I packed up a rather large box to ship off tomorrow to one of my L.T. friends. I feel so good about it although it took hours as when I last moved my bookshelves around the only books I got back in Alpha-Order were my Virago and Persephone. But I finally found all of the ones that I wanted to send to her and 'these be them'. ;-)
Oranges:
Five Quarters of the Orange,
Gilead,
Black and Blue,
The Tiger's Wife,
Small Island,
Bel Canto,
The Very Thought of You,
The Blue Flower,
Night Watch,
On Beauty,
Larry's Party,
When I Lived in Modern Times,
The Long Song, and

non Oranges:
A Slipping Down Life,
Breathing Lessons and
The Bookshop.

So that looks like 16 off my shelves and onto my friend's shelves. Such a good feeling. Hope I can keep it up all year. Yea!~!

Admirable. I admit I probably would not want to part with some of the books on your list, e.g. Bel Canto. But then, I'm a bit of a rereader, despite the constant inflow of new books.

Hi there cloud;
I am quite a rereader but I did all rereads last Orange January and Orange July plus one each month. There were a couple that I did hate to see go but with 12 bookcases overflowing in the house (small house), and several boxes of books I really need to be brave about this and attempt to keep only my 'heart' books other than those I collect.
Thanks for popping over and I will be checking on your thread too.
Happy New Year.

What's all this talk of oranges?

In Great Britain they have a Prize for female authors from all over the world. It was called the Orange Prize but they lost sponsorship last year and have changed the name of the prize. I don't recall the current name but we who read them on Library Thing are continuing to call them by the name of Orange Prize. The authors do not have to be from the U.K. but the prize is awarded to the female author 'published' in the U.K. for that year. I have been reading them for 3 or 4 years now and find them to be far superior to the Man Booker or any other prize long, short listed and winners out there on the whole. This prize began in 1996.
We actually have a group here on L.T. if you are interested. And I wouldn't consider these 'girlie' books at all either.
The link is here:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/orangejanuaryjuly

Check it out. And thanks for popping by fun.

Happy reading in 2013!

You too rocket. Which book challenge is your thread on?

I just started one on the 50-Book Challenge group today, and I'll be starting one here in a day or two as well. Cheers!

Two books mailed out to L.T. friends:
A Particular Place, a duplicate Virago and
Good Behavior, the same.
WOOT WOOT!~!~! 18 down, 182 to go.

One more leaving the nest:
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning. This one and A Particular Place are both on their way across the pond to U.K. I like thinking of some of my books in Great Britain. It makes me happy.
19 down and 81 to go. :-)

18 John Grishams are today being moved from my library to the Manor where my aged mother now lives. She will read these over and over again and hopefully some of the other residents will be able to enjoy them as well.
I am on a roll!
37 down and 163 to go. Woot Woot!~!

My entire collection of Luanne Rice romance books are out of here tomorrow and going to the Manor. The lady residents there are clamoring for some romance stories so 25 more books off my shelves and wending their way across town.

Eight more off my shelves and out into the world.

My edition of These Old Shades will go out in the post tomorrow wending it's way to PA. Someone there wants it and I just couldn't get into it. Hope they enjoy it.

21 more books coming off my shelves and going across town to the Manor where my mother now lives. Those sweet ladies will be getting my entire collection of Nora Roberts books. Yea, me!

What a dear, sweet soul you are to give so many books away to a LT friend. You are making great progress at getting the books off the shelf. I'm curious, since you mentioned some of your books are shelved in alpha order, do you have the goal of alphabetizing all your books? I tried that a few years ago...it took a long time. But, then I realized that when I bought new books, I hadn't left space for the aquisitions.

I'm tempted to put all books in alpha order, since they are now scattered everywhere in the house. This time I'll leave space for new books.

Hi Linda. And yes, I do attempt to keep my shelves in alpha order by author, then title. But about a year ago I moved all 12 bookcases in the house and you must first unheave the books before moving the cases, you know. It is a big job and I am afraid that the only ones I got back in proper order are my Virago and Persephone collections. So I am currently attempting to get the rest of them in order. I try to shelve them loosely so that there is room for additional books as they come like you are planning. It is so nice to know where to find a book when you need it.
Books that I have really enjoyed I do try to post to L.T.ers who would like them rather than just give them to Good Will, etc. I just can't stand the thought of a book I treasured to go for a buck. I would rather give them away. And I bookcross when I have the time as well.
Hope things are good with you and yours.

Today is another productive day for decluttering my bookcases of books I have previously enjoyed but won't read again. 21 Patricia Cornwells and 20 Tess Gerritsens are bagged up and ready to go to the Bank branch from which I retired. My manager is very keen to have them. Love remaining friends with an ex-boss.
I quite liked these mysteries back when I read them but am afraid I would find some of them too graphically violent today.
So 41 more out of here. WOOT WOOT!~!~!
133 down and 67 to go with not even 1 month into the New Year. I may have to change my goal again. :-)

Yah! The anal retentive part of me thinks it's great when people organise and send books off to new homes :) I used to read Cornwell, Gerritsen and a bunch of others (Jonathan Kellerman, James Patterson etc) but I just don't enjoy them anymore. Some are just too graphic and some have gotten too boring. Funny how tastes change.

Isn't it though? I read very differently post 2007 since joining Library Thing. I just wasn't familiar with all of these different types of books that are available to the reader. It's pretty amazing, looking back, at the books I mentally turn my nose up at these days. The reviews and recommendations one gets here at L.T. make it so easy to choose a book that feeds one and doesn't simply distract one.

I do remember finding LT and thinking 'good grief, I don't know any of these titles!' when I first started looking at various threads. And sadly, at that point, I had worked in numerous bookstores and for a publishing house and thought myself fairly well read. I was a little intimidated at first but once I started getting hit by some book bullets, I realised there was this whole other world of books that I never knew existed. This place is the sole reason why I now have over 1000 more TBRs :)

Ditto all of that excepting the working place.
L.T. has seriously been a saving grace for me bucket. When one talks about books it really opens a true book lover's heart. Love it.
I would love to work in a library or a bookshop even though I would have to travel forty some miles to get there. lol! And actually since retiring from the bank, I have applied at both for part time work. But I think businesses shy away from hiring sixty somethings. Oh well, more time for reading.
Cheers!

More books off my shelves and out of the house.
2 to my mother to read and share with the other ladies of the Manor. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
7 more wending their way to my ex-boss. All of them by Linda Lael Miller. A gift from one of my brothers one year because he loved them and thought I would too. Sadly, I didn't read a single one of them. They just didn't draw me. But my cases are 9 books lighter this morning. Yea!~!
Down 142 with only 58 to go.

All 7 Harry Potter books out to my grandson and 2 Jodi Picoults out to my granddaughter.
151 down & 49 to go.

Three more out the door. Two Jan Karons to mother's place of residence and My Abandonment, a R/L B/C read, I am going to Bookcross out.
154 down & 46 to go.

Three more that I unsuspectingly duplicated. :-(
Cutting for Stone,
Paris Without End: the True Story of Hemingway's First Wife, (That one got duplicated because of a title change. Drat! I hate when they do that. It is a bio and the previous name was Hadley. and
Suite Francaise. This one, someone was sending me a duplicate copy and I forgot and bought the darned thing.
So they are going along with Safe Haven. I enjoy a Nicholas Sparks read when I want a comfy, cozy read to put on like an old favorite sweater or sweatshirt. But I rarely reread them. So out it goes. And that is the only one of the four that has even been read. The other three are brand new. I need to start taking my husband's I-Pad with me when I enter any bookshop. (or just stop buying books) Shame on me.
Anyway that will make 158 down and 42 to go. Yea, me!~!

I completed a reread of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, a 3 1/2 star read for me and am ready to give it up so out it goes. WOOT WOOT!~!
159 down, 41 to go!

>27 rainpebble:: I listened to this a few years ago but remember very little about it. Time for a relisten, perhaps...

Such a deal! Yesterday I was playing around on Amazon looking for any Iris Murdochs I am missing. (found all for a penny each plus S.&H.) Anyway one of my recs on there, and I never pay any attention to these but this one caught my eye, was a near complete selection of the L.M. Montgomery Anne series on Kindle for 99 cents plus The Story Girl, The Golden Road and Kilmeny of the Orchard. The two that they were not able to include at that price, because of publication dates, were Anne of Ingleside and Anne of Windy Poplars. So I will be keeping those two in paperback and I now have the remainder on Kindle so I will be able to free 10 Anne books and I have a young great niece who will adore to have them. Great for her and good for my shelves.
I am keeping my original Anne of Green Gables as it is a beautiful hardback. I will buy a paperback for the niece to go along with the remainder.
Yea, another great day!
169 down-31 to go.

I am soo cooking at this that I have bumped my B-O-T-S goal from 200 to 300 so now 131 to go.

I admire your resolve.:)

Thank you cloud but it is more a 'clear some of these shelves' than resolve. And I hope I haven't intimated that I am reading all of these at this time for I am not. Along with reading a few of them, I am weeding out the chaff that was read in the past and that I won't be reading again. You are very sweet.

Oh, I understand, but I'd still have a hard time giving so many books away.:)

At least, these days, whenever I'm finished with a book, I decide whether I'll want to reread it again and if not, it gets listed on a swap site. My husband was very impressed with the parcels going out until it dawned on him that for every book I sent off, a new one is likely to come in... (But he still donated his CD collection to me for turning into books -- I am a lucky woman!)

Wow, a very generous and loving husband to gift you his CD collection to exchange for books (for you, I am guessing,,lol). You are a lucky woman. Somehow I can't see my husband donating his dirt bikes and Anglia body & parts in exchange for books. That would really be a day. ;-) But he did buy me a mini-laptop yesterday so that I would not be taking his I-Pad to the Philly Meet Up. I had to laugh about that.
Have a great day cloud.

Well, he's digitalized all the music and we're keeping only the CDs where the actual physical object has some sentimental value (e.g. signed ones or special gifts). My husband is a bit of a minimalist -- how he fell in love with me and all my books and plants is a bit of a mystery. He's asked that his office be free of books (about the only room in the house) but has allowed some plants in.:)

He sounds like a really good man who is totally okay with his cloud being her own self. Good men are like that.

Last month I read:
Shopgirl; (out of here)
House of Silence; (out of here)
Housekeeping; (out of here)
A Woman of Jerusalem; (out of here)
The Road; (out of here)
Henry and Cato; (back on the shelf)
The Magic Toyshop; (back on the shelf)
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes; (back on the shelf) and
The Lovely Bones; (back on the shelf) for a total of 9 with 4 gone, gone, gone!
So that puts me at 174/126. (I bumped up the number of books I want out of here this year to 300)

And I have only been counting the books that leave. I think I am off-topic with that.

>35 rainpebble:: Yes, I am a lucky woman. And I say that after -- next week -- twelve years together.

>36 rainpebble:: Wow, that's quite a list! I take it the "back on the shelf" for The Moving Toy Shop means that it's a keeper?

Yes, cloud. The Magic Toyshop is a keeper. It was a 4 1/2 star read for me and normally I am not an Angela Carter fan but I may have to change my tune. Not only was it a great read but it is also a Virago which is a book publication that I collect.
Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary. That's exciting. :-)

A few more to go out the door:
1. Looking After Pigeon,
2. Thin Threads, and
3. The Forgetting River: all ARC/ERs.
4. Again Calls the Own, won't read it again.
5. The Perfect Storm, a duplicate but brand new.
6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, again a duplicate but brand new and one of the favorite books of my life.
Which brings me to 180 removed from my shelves and 120 to go to get to goal.

102 books listed on PBS so......off my shelves & if no one wants them there it is off to Good Will with them. That brings me to 282 removed from my shelves this year and only 18 more to make goal. Time to re-up my goal of books to rid my house of.