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Of course my return to Atlantic City after work today is being mirrored by the first tropical storm to reach our area this year... I am so suck of making this drive alone in the rain :(
 
I was walking through Home Depot and I spotted a hibiscus plant, Not any hibiscus plant but a Really Red Hibiscus plant Needless to say it came home with me.
I cannot wait for it to open another flower so I can photo it.:heart:
 
Here we go, Park View, here we go! *clap, clap*

PVLL going for a world championship tomorrow!
 
*non-Lit-people related*

Why is it that some men feel the need to tell their women what kind of underwear they *must* wear, and get irritated when we tell them we don't wear those particular styles because they're uncomfortable? Why do they say, "well you should try it again," when we say, "I tried that style once and it drove me nuts?" Why is that irritation worse when we tried that style for a bit because they suggested it then stopped because we simply couldn't get used to the way it felt enough to be comfortable? Why do they want us to put up with the discomfort of...whatever we think is uncomfortable...simply because *they* like it?
 
I've been weeding my library. So far I have selected about 300-400 books to go.

Some decisions are easy. Dennis Wheatley is going, as are several police biographies e.g. Slipper of the Yard.

Some are hard. I'm still keeping twenty volumes of Charles Dickens' "All The Year Round". Why? I'm unlikely to read them again. I'm also keeping his Chapman and Hall 19th Century editions and my small collection of the original weekly parts that are the true first editions of some of his works.

But if I want to read Dickens I'll probably read a modern paperback, so why am I using five yards of shelf space for old editions? If I really want to read Dickens almost any charity bookshop has multiple copies.

My local library isn't much help if I want to reduce my collection. Apart from "King Solomon's Mines" they don't have Sir H Rider Haggard. I have at least twenty volumes of his novels. If I get rid of them I would have real difficulty replacing them. That also applies to Thorne Smith, Zane Grey, A E W Mason, Quiller-Couch, A G Hales, Rudyard Kipling except "The Jungle Book", Raphael Sabatini, Russell Thorndike's Dr Syn novels... The list of irreplaceables is long.

Even standard works of English Literature don't appear on my local library's shelves - De Quincey, Lamb's Elia, Bacon's Essays. I wouldn't expect them to have Giraldus Cambriensis or Anglo-Saxon but I don't want just the latest Chick-lit or Clive Cussler.

Back to sorting. Only 5,000 more to consider. My personal library already reduced over last 5 years from 25,000 and then I had my shop's stock as well.

Reluctantly sorting Og
 
I've been weeding my library. So far I have selected about 300-400 books to go.

Some decisions are easy. Dennis Wheatley is going, as are several police biographies e.g. Slipper of the Yard.

Some are hard. I'm still keeping twenty volumes of Charles Dickens' "All The Year Round". Why? I'm unlikely to read them again. I'm also keeping his Chapman and Hall 19th Century editions and my small collection of the original weekly parts that are the true first editions of some of his works.

But if I want to read Dickens I'll probably read a modern paperback, so why am I using five yards of shelf space for old editions? If I really want to read Dickens almost any charity bookshop has multiple copies.

My local library isn't much help if I want to reduce my collection. Apart from "King Solomon's Mines" they don't have Sir H Rider Haggard. I have at least twenty volumes of his novels. If I get rid of them I would have real difficulty replacing them. That also applies to Thorne Smith, Zane Grey, A E W Mason, Quiller-Couch, A G Hales, Rudyard Kipling except "The Jungle Book", Raphael Sabatini, Russell Thorndike's Dr Syn novels... The list of irreplaceables is long.

Even standard works of English Literature don't appear on my local library's shelves - De Quincey, Lamb's Elia, Bacon's Essays. I wouldn't expect them to have Giraldus Cambriensis or Anglo-Saxon but I don't want just the latest Chick-lit or Clive Cussler.

Back to sorting. Only 5,000 more to consider. My personal library already reduced over last 5 years from 25,000 and then I had my shop's stock as well.

Reluctantly sorting Og

*tongue in cheek*
You can send any books you are discarding my way!!;)
 
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