BOOKS THREAD

Mr Hecht,

It's a bit precious ... comme moi!

o-<

 

Maybe a little off track here (and maybe already answered, but I'm too lazy to go through 113 pages) -- but for those of you who buy a lot of books, what do you with them after you read them? Do you keep them on a shelf, re-sell them, donate them, put them in storage, something else? Just curious.

 

I keep all the nonfiction ones. Most of the fiction ones I donate to the local library.

And box up. My parents have nine boxes of my books in their basement. I hope they never move.

 

Heaviest part of my last move was lugging around all my books. Should probably start getting rid of the ones I don't read anymore, but I hate to do that. One day, I dream of having a wall-length library in my house, completely full. First, I need a house.

 

Just started to tear into Why England Lose: and Other Curious Phenomena Explained by soccer writer Simon Kuper and economist Stefan Szymanski. It's a pretty decent attempt at trying to be the Moneyball of soccer. I really liked how seamless the baseball discussion is woven into a book about soccer. Even though this book was written for a British audience, I find it incredibly accessible for the average American sports fan.

 

Big Red Of Meadow Stable is two books away for me; The Breaks of the Game is up next.

They have repackaged Big Red Of Meadow Stable with the title: Secretariat The Making of a Champion. Luckily I finally found it, in a Barnes and Noble in Iowa of all places, and checked to make sure it was the same book.

 

I tend to keep my books, but that may be because I lost hundreds of them in a flood a couple of years ago, so I still have room. If not for that I'd be facing some storage issues.

 

I just finished John Ed Bradley's It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium about his time as a player at LSU and then trying to make it as a writer. Highly recommmended.

 

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert








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...Truth in wine...(Pliny Eldest)

 

Just starting Green Hell

 

I have given away or lost every book I've ever finished.