Waking up at about 4am the other morning and unable to get back to sleep, I went onto the radio iPlayer and scrolled through that day’s programmes and came across “Too Many Books”.
The title alone was enough to make me listen, but I also remembered reading @vulpes-vulpes thread about books to a good home not long before.
Anyway, listening to Too Many Books is a half hour worth spending. It has gentle humour, some pathos and a man that buys books (including a Smash Hits annual and one about Tim and Jeff Buckley) at car boots.
What’s not to like about that?
It may not be good form to comment on your own post, but you can’t believe how thrilled I am that my hyperlink works!
Lovely stuff, @pajp, thanks for the tip. I really want to help Joan out…
When my parents-in-law died none of their own children were interested, so I got to deal with the books. And very lucrative it was, I can tell you. One of them sold for USD600, which is more than the notional sum I’d paid into the estate for the whole lot.
Here is how I imagine my library would be – if only…
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g401/mikethep/libraries_zpseu8xadxb.jpg
slobber, drool
Hi @mikethep Yes, it was good, wasn’t it?
I’d like to have those shelves… and a house big enough to put them in. I am a “shelves full, piles of books in odd corners” chap myself, much to Mrs Pajp’s frustration.
I must take heart from the people in the programme and have a clear out.
I do know that I have more books than I am ever going to get round to reading, but “possession”! That, and being a completest. I can’t have a few P.G Wodehouses or some orange-spined Graham Greene Penguins without want to collect “the set”. At least I enjoy those; I do have books by some authors where I’ve read one, but the others just sit on the shelf. Cormac McCarthy springs to mind. I read All The Pretty Horses years ago, but not one of the others since.
Right, that’s my Saturday sorted…
I do not wish to hear about another Radio programme encouraging my bibliomania. Once a week I catch “A Good Read” if it’s on while I’m driving home. It’s cost me a fortune. If I ever meet the producer or presenter in person, I swear I’ll do time for them.