Free at Last

Don't know quite why I hadn't picked up on Bookcrossing before now, but I have repaired the omission and will release a copy of Lost Worlds into the wild tomorrow. Then it will be time for a major book winnowing. (I admire Pepys, who decided that enough was enough, and for every new book he introduced into his house, he'd get rid of an existing one. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't. I need my books. All of them! They have souls! And personalities, and hopes and dreams! So do my pipes! And my pens!)

(DISCREDITABLE SECRET: I anthropomorphize. I feel sorry for the eraser I reject when selecting the one I will use. In pointless and sentimental empathy I waste my life.)

Comments

[Linda]

We ended up with the weirdest Christmas tree this (last) year: it seemed to have two stalks and hence looked obese. But I couldn't bear the thought of him being left alone at the farm over Christmas, so he came home with us. My anthropomorphization extends to names so: bike (a girl) is called Frederica; mum's car is Iphigenia; best friend's car is Fergus; mobile phone is Dumbledore; laptop is Vaughan-y the Vaio. And my mum named her hoover Jimmy. Jimmy is now broken and we have a Henry and a new hoover. But we can't bring ourselves to throw him away...

[Tiggsybabes]

Bookcrossing is very addictive. I used to hoard all of my books, but I've started releasing those which I know I'll never, ever re-read. I keep books by my favourite authors & I collect penguin books, gotta love those orange spines :)
I also buy duplicates of my favourite books & share them via bookcrossing.
If you'd like one of my availables, take a look at my bookshelf, link above and send me a PM :)

Anna / Tiggsybabes

[Sophia]

It can start early. Once as a child, out shopping with my mother, she asked me to choose between two t-shirts. One had a Charlie's Angels logo on it and the other didn't. I never watched the show and prefered the logo free shirt so I chose it. No problem so far, except that when we got home I sat on the stairs and wept becasue I had left behind the Charlie's Angels t-shirt. I hadn't liked it because it was garish and naff, but that made it the underdog and pitiable and I should have chosen it. Even then I knew I was being utterly ludicrous, but I couldn't shake a sense of delsoation that my rejection had somehow caused. The emotion was overwhealming. What a sap!

[Katherine]

I anthropomorphize too -- even cried when husband Ben closed the National Savings Account his Dad opened for him when he was born. But you know how sentimental I am :-)