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Nov. 13th, 2019 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI've been bringing books up from the basement every time I go down there and putting them in bags and boxes in the living room. I think that we'll end up donating them to the Friends of the Library for their book sale rather than me trying to give them out in twos and threes to local little free libraries.
The little free libraries I know of in our general area are far enough apart that I was never going to be able to visit all seven in one day, and I'd really rather not deal with the icy sidewalks.
I'm deciding what stays or goes based on a few criteria.
First, does looking at the book give me story related happy memories? Things about particular scenes or plotlines or characters or... It probably doesn't matter if I'm remembering the bits wrong because I'm unlikely to reread. I just want the reminders of things I enjoyed.
Second, does looking at the book bring up memories of where/when I read it? (As an example, there's a not particularly great book that I happened to read the evening after my first performance as the Wicked Witch of the West. My parents thought that a 16 year old wouldn't want flowers and gave me a jar of Hershey's kisses instead. When I look at that book, I get a lot of sense memories about the play and a phantom memory of chocolate.) For these books, I'm really not going to care which members of the Suck Fairy Clan have visited because it's about the book as object rather than about the book as medium for story conveyance.
Third, am I likely write fic for it?
Fourth, am I likely to reread the book? I haven't done much rereading in the last decade that wasn't related to fic writing, but there are a couple of authors whose works I still reread when stressed.
Five, am I certain about the book being mine and not Scott's or ours? There are some big sub-sets that I know not to touch. All the Dragonlance books are his and all of the Simon Hawke and James Hogan. I'm not sure who brought in the Foundation Trilogy, though, or if he has any wish to keep those four Piers Anthony books.
The little free libraries I know of in our general area are far enough apart that I was never going to be able to visit all seven in one day, and I'd really rather not deal with the icy sidewalks.
I'm deciding what stays or goes based on a few criteria.
First, does looking at the book give me story related happy memories? Things about particular scenes or plotlines or characters or... It probably doesn't matter if I'm remembering the bits wrong because I'm unlikely to reread. I just want the reminders of things I enjoyed.
Second, does looking at the book bring up memories of where/when I read it? (As an example, there's a not particularly great book that I happened to read the evening after my first performance as the Wicked Witch of the West. My parents thought that a 16 year old wouldn't want flowers and gave me a jar of Hershey's kisses instead. When I look at that book, I get a lot of sense memories about the play and a phantom memory of chocolate.) For these books, I'm really not going to care which members of the Suck Fairy Clan have visited because it's about the book as object rather than about the book as medium for story conveyance.
Third, am I likely write fic for it?
Fourth, am I likely to reread the book? I haven't done much rereading in the last decade that wasn't related to fic writing, but there are a couple of authors whose works I still reread when stressed.
Five, am I certain about the book being mine and not Scott's or ours? There are some big sub-sets that I know not to touch. All the Dragonlance books are his and all of the Simon Hawke and James Hogan. I'm not sure who brought in the Foundation Trilogy, though, or if he has any wish to keep those four Piers Anthony books.
