I can no longer cope with the feelings of being inadequate..not to mention the anxiety… when it comes to my “To Be Read” pile of books…..so off they go to the local lending library….well at least 18 so far.
Which ones did I keep???
My classics of course (just knowing they are there waiting brings me a sense of comfort):
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
War and Peace by Leo Tlstoy
The Odyssey by Homer
Dracula by Bram Stoker
My psychology books (saving for when I feel intellectual):
Female Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
EMDR by Francine Shapiro
The Gaslight Effect by Robin Stern
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
My books on writing (for when I need be inspired):
On Writing by Stephen King
Writing for Your Life by Deena Metzger
My fiction/non-fiction books (for when the sun gets too hot to work outside anymore):
An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor
Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs (my favorite author of all time)
And so there you go.
By the way….for inquiring minds that just can’t help themselves…while going through my “keep” pile to make the above list I managed to let go of six more books.
Now perhaps I can focus a bit more.
2 Comments
Wow, Danielle, I admire you. That takes guts to pass the books along! I need to do the same thing, lots of places I could donate to, you are inspiring me to think about it…Barb
I think you are a readaholic..:) I can’t begin to imagine getting around to all those you kept…much less the ones you let go. Good for you! More time to garden..and scrapbook..and FB, of course..haha