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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