I have them all over our house. Mostly because I get too ambitious about what I am to read next and sometimes because cool books present themselves to me at a bargain price. What am I to do? I have to have them, right?
Other times, it’s because I have gathered a few books together to take to our secondhand bookshop, or in the case of not very good books, to the charity shop. The pile usually sits there for a while until I get around to taking them.
The stack in the photo is different.
They are all mine. By that, I mean I wrote them. There is something incredibly satisfying about looking at a stack of your own books.
Until recently, the idea of stacking them up in one place did not occur to me, but toward the end of last year, there was a flurry of publishing activity and now it seems worthwhile.
I’ll put them back on the shelf eventually, but for now, I’m going to enjoy walking past them every time I go to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee (which is quite frequently!)
This is impressive, Terry! Very happy for you. I promised myself I’d stack some books of my own, but until now I have them only in e-book version. Okay, now to make it black on white, I’m making the promise in this comment: I’ll have them printed from CreateSpace when I publish the next one 🙂 And oh, do I feel you with the coffee. I’ll certainly do the same when I have the books, pass by them deliberately to make myself yet another coffee – I’m a coffee junkie, LOL.
I used to hold onto books and then one day, randomly gave them all away. I figured I wasn’t going to read them again, so why not let someone have them. Did they read them? I don’t know, but I sure feel good about moving it forward. I have a handful of books now. I think I’ll hold onto those for a while longer.
We are just the lucky custodian of books — for a brief time then we send them on their way.
Thank you for taking the time to comment Gina. Enjoy your handful of books — they need you.
Terry
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This is impressive, Terry! Very happy for you. I promised myself I’d stack some books of my own, but until now I have them only in e-book version. Okay, now to make it black on white, I’m making the promise in this comment: I’ll have them printed from CreateSpace when I publish the next one 🙂 And oh, do I feel you with the coffee. I’ll certainly do the same when I have the books, pass by them deliberately to make myself yet another coffee – I’m a coffee junkie, LOL.
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go for it kid
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bravo, you!
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thank you kindly
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That is impressive!
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I agreed and thank you
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Well done, Terry.
(I’d do the same thing. I mean look at them with pride and a sense of “I wrote them”).
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Thanks Vicki. I just walked past them with a cup of coffee in hand!
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I used to hold onto books and then one day, randomly gave them all away. I figured I wasn’t going to read them again, so why not let someone have them. Did they read them? I don’t know, but I sure feel good about moving it forward. I have a handful of books now. I think I’ll hold onto those for a while longer.
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We are just the lucky custodian of books — for a brief time then we send them on their way.
Thank you for taking the time to comment Gina. Enjoy your handful of books — they need you.
Terry
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Indeed satisfying and quite wonderful!
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