Fiction

I figure we had at least 3000 books, and that's a low estimate. After weeding through the ones that were just in really bad shape (too moldy or brittle to really keep), it turned into kind of a game - donate, pack in storage, or take with us. We learned a lot of stuff about ourselves.

1) I had four copies of Camille, but had never read one of them. I kept the best one and read it (it's really good!)

2) We had enough books by or about Frank O'Hara that we now have a small Frank O'Hara section.

3) We buy a lot of duplicates.

4) The ones we were least likely to keep were ones other people had given us, or really topical political books. So now we don't buy as many of those.

5) We both wanted to get rid of some of the other person's books, but didn't (so he still has a section on bridge (cards) and I still have a section on the Salem Witch trials).

And, now we've been in our new place for five years and they are piling up again.