Fran's mother told her, "Marry a reader. Nobody else will understand when he comes home from work to find you've done nothing all day but sit with your feet up and a book in your hands." Good advice; probably it did not occur to her that it might be Fran who'd come home wanting to know if her support staff had picked up the drycleaning, paid the electric bill, and so forth.
Or that there might be a destructive feedback if two heavy readers get together. (The Nick and Nora Charles effect.) We declared the third bedroom in our house a library, but most often it looks like 4:30 in the afternoon at the garage sale. (To be fair, keeping the table saw in there doesn't help.) The shelves filled up some three weeks after we moved in, and now not only do we not have enough bookcases, we don't have room for enough bookcases. No doubt a skilled storage consultant could straighten this out, or a competent arsonist.
Neither of us can bear to sell a book, let alone discard one, but fortunately we manage on occasion to give them away. I'm not offering to give you any, but I will offer some notes on good and other books I've read recently. Don't think of these as reviews, though.
- Popular linguistics
- Plays I've seen
- Fiction
- Science and technology
- History and archaeology
- Theater books
- Books that don't fit into other classes
And for the browser stout of heart and easy of conscience, an unsorted list of the titles from all categories.
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