![]() ![]() Keep books that have blessed and moved me: Matterhorn, Peace Like a River, anything by Frederick Buechner or Mary Oliver. Keep touchstones: a first edition of Dune, a galley of A Time to Kill, my first Josephine Tey. So I've necessarily come up with some rules for eliminating books: I can't even compute what we'll have in the apartment without feeling faint. In the house, we have (had!) 283 linear feet of bookshelves. (A favorite epigram is the title of the 10th novel in Anthony Powell's 12-volume epic A Dance to the Music of Time: Books Do Furnish a Room.) My husband and I just sold our house and are moving into an apartment with half the square footage. ![]() ![]() Books have been my means of employment since college. when you look back at your old books, it's sort of like finding a little record of yourself."īooks have been my life since pre-kindergarten. "They're the first thing I think about moving whenever I change city, and the first thing I want to set up when I arrive. Author Tom Rachman, recently interviewed on NPR, believes that books are not something to consume and dump. ![]()
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