The problem with this is what to do with my spreadsheet. Some I have actually read, and I don't want to lose track, so I can't just delete them. Therefore there is now a new page devoted to 'books discarded.
Surprisingly, there are less sacrifices than I thought .... and although I promised I wouldn't, five have gone back on my shelves and I'm trying to make up my mind about that biography of Lucrezia Borgia ...
And now, although I said I would not do this, I am going to post what I'm getting rid of. I don't intend on doing a pick and choose, but if anyone sees something and has been desperately looking for it for years etc. then please comment before Saturday morning, when I will be taking them to Blackwell's second hand department, where I will be trying to sell them ....
Napoli, Donna Jo | Daughter of Venice |
Newbury, Linda | Flightsend |
Drabble, Margaret | The Seven Sisters |
Menzies, Gavin | 1421: The Year China Discovered the World |
Sperber, A. N. & Lax, Eric | Bogart |
Scott, Sir Walter | The Bride of Lammermoor |
Plutarch | Roman Lives |
Garfield, Simon | Mauve |
Maclaine, Shirley | Out on a Limb |
Tannahill, Reay | Fatal Majesty |
Wells, H.G. | A Short History of the World |
Bogdanovich, Peter | This is Orson Wells |
Callow, Simon | Charles Laughton |
Holinghurst, Alan | The Line of Beauty |
Orwell, George | Nineteen Eighty-four |
Baker, Nicholson | U & I |
Kapuscinski, Ryszard | The Soccer war |
Ondaatje, Michael | The English Patient |
Wolff, Tobias | In Pharoah's Army |
Harris, Robert | Archangel/Fatherland |
Haggard, H. Rider | King Solomon's Mines |
Breslin, Theresa | Rememberance |
Tyler, Anne | The Amateur Marriage |
Sandford, Christopher | McQueen |
Pennington, Kate | Tread Softly |
O'Connor, Joseph | Star of the Sea |
Barnes, Julian | Flaubert's Parrot |
Mailer, Norman | An American Dream |
Kundera, Milan | Slowness |
Rathbone, Julian | Kings of Albion |
Fowles, John | The French Lieutentant's Woman |
Falk, Quentin | Anthony Hopkins |
Thakeray, William | Vanity Fair |
Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe |
Bosworth, Patricia | Marlon Brando |
Tiffany, Grace | My Father had a daughter |
Molony, Rowland | After the death of Alice Bennet |
Rushdie, Salman | Midnight's Children |
Brown, Peter Harry | Howard Hughes |
Ibbotsen, Eva | A song for summer |
Christie, Agathe | A Murder is Announced |
Kerouac, Jack | The Dharma Bums |
Penman, Sharon | When Christ and his Saints Slept |
Marshall, Dorothy | Victoria |
Sorenson, Theodore C. | Kennedy |
Farmer, Francis | Will there really be a morning? |
Bunyan, John | Pilgrim's Progress |
Frieda, Leonie | Catherine de Medici |
Hawkes, Howard | Bringing up Baby |
Lerner, Alan Jay | The Street Where I Live |
Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
Davies, Martin | The Conjuror's Bird |
4 comments:
If only I had your self-discipline! I can see several books in your list that I own and know that I will never read again but just can't get rid of them! So sad...
It doesn't really make a difference. I still have more books than I know what to do with! I think if it's been on a shelf for more than four years, and you can't think of a time when you will ever need to read it, then it should go. Not that that works every time of course!
Huh, I have already a first, signed edition of Simon Callow's seminal book on laughton, but I re-visit it so often, I guess "I'd need another copy to mistreat", LOL
If you aren't lucky trying to sell thses ones, drop me a line (i might be interested if postage to Spain isn't too expensive):
Kapuscinski, Ryszard/The Soccer war
Kerouac, Jack/The Dharma Bums
Bogdanovich, Peter/This is Orson Wells
I am actually vaugely wondering if I should keep the Laughton .... I'll let you know Gloria if I don't sell any of the ones mentioned!
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