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I left the Book Barn with only three books this time. I know, I know. It's like a sign of the coming apocalypse or something.
But, in my defense, the Book Barn looked like it had been well picked over and the good stuff taken earlier, and I hope that means that they're doing really good business. Because I'd hate it if they were another victim of this horrid economy.
Viva la Book Barn!
As usual, there were goats, cats, free small donuts, and wonderful people.
It might be a good thing that I didn't get so many books, because I cleared my shelves of a lot of books that I had been holding onto for rather stupid reasons. Books I swore up and down I'd read some day but haven't for the last year, books I bought because I thought it would make me smarter to have them, books I got because the cover art was pretty. I went like a vengeance at the books that I picked up, didn't like, but because someone recommended it or a bunch of people said it was good, I told myself I'd give it another try later. From now on? I have "no second chances" policy towards books. I got rid of some holdovers from college that I'd clung to because I loved the class.
Really is there a reason to have "Violence and the Sacred" on your shelves, ever, if a professor isn't forcing you to have it? In fact, is there a reason for any books on literary criticism to exist? Ugh. If lit crit disappeared from the Earth, I'm not sure anyone outside of a handful of Ivory Tower type folks would miss it. I definitely don't think the world would be worse off for it.
Also? Nothing like getting disillusioned with some previously well liked authors to help you get rid of books. Especially when you realize that they were never that good to begin with.
But, in my defense, the Book Barn looked like it had been well picked over and the good stuff taken earlier, and I hope that means that they're doing really good business. Because I'd hate it if they were another victim of this horrid economy.
Viva la Book Barn!
As usual, there were goats, cats, free small donuts, and wonderful people.
It might be a good thing that I didn't get so many books, because I cleared my shelves of a lot of books that I had been holding onto for rather stupid reasons. Books I swore up and down I'd read some day but haven't for the last year, books I bought because I thought it would make me smarter to have them, books I got because the cover art was pretty. I went like a vengeance at the books that I picked up, didn't like, but because someone recommended it or a bunch of people said it was good, I told myself I'd give it another try later. From now on? I have "no second chances" policy towards books. I got rid of some holdovers from college that I'd clung to because I loved the class.
Really is there a reason to have "Violence and the Sacred" on your shelves, ever, if a professor isn't forcing you to have it? In fact, is there a reason for any books on literary criticism to exist? Ugh. If lit crit disappeared from the Earth, I'm not sure anyone outside of a handful of Ivory Tower type folks would miss it. I definitely don't think the world would be worse off for it.
Also? Nothing like getting disillusioned with some previously well liked authors to help you get rid of books. Especially when you realize that they were never that good to begin with.
