tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post2738208601670508510..comments2023-03-27T17:05:34.212-07:00Comments on sceneofthecrime: Who Am I?MadameSmokinGunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00369302102195138989noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post-30518807602639885892011-04-28T16:18:24.678-07:002011-04-28T16:18:24.678-07:00Birdsong was always in the 'yes' pile - ...Birdsong was always in the 'yes' pile - but it has been on my shelves since before my last move (nearly 6 years ago). Someone told me not to read it if I was feeling a bit down as it was a hard one - and that was enough to keep me from opening it as I am very wobbly about WWI stuff anyway. It just sends me into intense melancholia just thinking about it. But I WILL read it eventually! Hopefully before I next move house?MadameSmokinGunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369302102195138989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post-26853518636522935952011-04-28T06:03:05.614-07:002011-04-28T06:03:05.614-07:00Yes Birdsong is good - I meant to say at the time ...Yes Birdsong is good - I meant to say at the time and forgot. Rescue it!alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09338687691871813019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post-49631123115452554622011-04-27T23:58:17.192-07:002011-04-27T23:58:17.192-07:00Agree with Diney - Birdsong is just a beautiful bo...Agree with Diney - Birdsong is just a beautiful book. If you do get rid and change your mind, I'll send you mine!Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00119443727504215312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post-47917182905746929292011-04-27T17:31:10.722-07:002011-04-27T17:31:10.722-07:00I promise I'll read Birdsong - one day. I...I promise I'll read Birdsong - one day. I get weirdly over-emotional about anything to do with WWI but I did keep that, and my WWI poetry book that I've kept since my teens. I can't bear to open them - but I kept them!<br /><br />I love your list of titles! I did finally kiss goodbye to The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting - wonderful but like.... am I really gonna be worrying about the difference between the permanence qualities of ultramarine versus cheaper 'copper blues' in my daily bumbling along picking up mud-coated socks..... Earth pigments only for me I fear for the forseeable... And as for Ivan Illych's The Right to Useful Unemployment: And it's Professional Enemies which I've hung onto for years cos it started well but ...... I knew I'd never finish it. I liked it on the shelf cos I thought it made me look clever. To myself that is. Who else cares?MadameSmokinGunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369302102195138989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post-40609020634795030092011-04-27T07:11:35.637-07:002011-04-27T07:11:35.637-07:00It's curious how we become so attached to book...It's curious how we become so attached to books; I've still got all my books from my Medieval English degree, although I know I will never read them, plus all my stats and incredibly boring books from my library management post grad then there are hubby's ancient Greek plays (in Greek) and law books, and now we have my son's English and Modern history books from his degree plus town planning massive tomes from his post grad.......we need to be tough and throw the buggers all out as we also have tens of hundreds of paperback novels.....where are those large black bin bags then.... PS Do retrieve Birdsong as it's brilliant! And a great sexy bit near the beginning! Just read that then bin it!!dineyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17149135846677528140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post-69735793627396437752011-04-27T06:31:46.936-07:002011-04-27T06:31:46.936-07:00Oohhhhhh I'm weakening!!!
My thoughts keep dr...Oohhhhhh I'm weakening!!!<br /><br />My thoughts keep drifting out into the Drum Room where the black sack mound is piled. What if I just rescued those two?<br /><br />But there's those other two....<br /><br />And that last one....?<br /><br />I'd have to climb down off my high horse!!!! Don't know what to do?????<br /><br />It's those five books I went and mentioned - they're haunting me now. Can I be a grown-up next time around? There's still about a hundred I will be letting go...... hhhhooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh............??????MadameSmokinGunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369302102195138989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post-27219557096448986452011-04-27T04:03:53.536-07:002011-04-27T04:03:53.536-07:00Oh now you've got me quite choked so I'll ...Oh now you've got me quite choked so I'll have to be flippant and then I won't cry.<br /><br />I see your mother loves shopping channels too. We have a ridiculous assortment of Price-Drop bargains from my mum, although my son loves the four box-sets of Lynx she gave him. For heaven's sake, there must be 20 cans of the stuff.Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00119443727504215312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588974102939585635.post-73095511158740929642011-04-27T01:35:59.310-07:002011-04-27T01:35:59.310-07:00I love this post - and very timely for me as I'...I love this post - and very timely for me as I've been thinking of doing the same (thinking, not actually doing yet). Isn't it funny how books define us? How they remind us of different stages in our lives. But like you say, even packed away out of sight, you still read them - they are still inside you. Even if they go to charity. I struggle with letting go of books because I thought they defined me - who I was. But not so much anymore. I may even get a Kindle and put them on that and let go of the copies. <br /><br />or maybe not.<br /><br />Sounds like we read a lot of the same books.alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09338687691871813019noreply@blogger.com