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This is a picture of a wall of books with a door tucked in the middle. The door has some sort of caution or police tape on it warning people not to go in the door.
I must admit I didn’t know where to go with this, but when I thought about it, a library is a means of escape for many, to cast aside their daily lives and bury themselves in fact or fiction for a few hours. I was a librarian in my final two senior years and in my free time, you would usually find me in the library.
In later life, I used to love the old bookshops with rows of shelves and a few battered but comfy armchairs, a badly ringed table or two, and maybe a coffee machine if you were lucky. Add a log burner for those cold chilly days and you were suddenly transported to the times of Dickens or something similar.
In fact, it was an idea Hubby and I toyed with when we retired, especially with all the books we had before we sold the cottage and ended up on the boat.
Perhaps this picture isn’t about keeping people out so much, but more of keeping the characters contained where they belong, in our interpretation of the written word and the depths of our imagination.
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Yes! I agree! I liked where you went with this Di! 🙂
Thank you!
You are most definitely right 👍
thanks Willow
Really enjoyed your take on that image and you just have got rid of a lot of books to go from a cottage to a boat!
And liked this a lot
“more of keeping the characters contained where they belong, in our interpretation of the written word and the depths of our imagination”
Thanks for commenting. In the cottage Hubby built in floor to ceiling bookshelves on one side of the fireplace. We had something similar in the hallway housing our DVDs and videos. When we moved, we gave over 300 of the latter to a charity shop. I have very few books now and don’t read as much as I used to.
Thanks for sharing that and I bet the charity valued the donation and maybe some folks were able to use them!
And your reply reminded me that “there is a season for everything” and it can be nice to downsize and release stuff!
I a down to about 275 books (that is low for me ) and it feels so good
I had 78 by the same author! They were really pleased with the DVDs though as they had absolutely none. We gave them the first 9 seasons of the original CSI and they sold them as a job lot for £75…….. in less than ten minutes!
That was a fast sale! And how cool they were so in demand
And I forgot about the 100+ Louis l’amour books I have in the attic – was hoping to read his paper back westerns eventually
And so who was the author you had 78 from?
Sandra Brown. The first book of hers I read was Where There’s Smoke and I did not anticipate the twist at the end. Envy is also good, as is Breath of Scandal (always made me cry) and Mirror Image. I wasn’t into romance as such, but liked hers as it was easy reading and often amusing. I haven’t got a single one now.
Thanks – my step daughter is always in the lookout for books like that and I will consider Sandra brown the next time I want to get her a book
And also thanks for a couple of titles to consider – that helps even more
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Good luck. Charade is another good one IMO as is The Witness and Lethal.
Oh thanks
And as much as I love books – I sure feel lighter without a massive library
Some might be available as kindle books I don’t know how they all work as I prefer a paperback.
Thanks – and i like paperback too – but don’t mind kindle or digital for some
I love libraries! Sparky works in one and they are magical places. The only way to prevent the escape of the characters is to never open the book! Once the book is open and being read they are free and fly thought the imagination….
Exactly!
Books are a great form of escape 😊
They can be indeed.
Definitely a different perspective but it makes so much sense. David and I used to love this one restaurant that was a bookstore too. The main level had books everywhere and if you ordered a meal you could pick any three books for free. Downstairs they had rows and rows of books that were for sale, mostly used I would say. Then when the kids were little there was this place in the town we lived called The Book Barn. It was on someone’s property and had a bunch of small out-buildings, each one housing a different genre of literature. I always like the horror one in the back but there were plenty of areas for kids books so mine would hunt for good books too.
There’s a Book Barn just outside of Bristol and I could lose myself in there for hours.
One think that irks me though is when people try selling used books for a high price. There are so many books in this world, who wants to pay for one, especially if it isn’t new? And, honestly, I couldn’t care less about new or not!
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Di has made a good point here…