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This weekend I 'ave been mostly ...

... clearing books.

It was time to tackle the study: pretty much all fifty feet of shelving there was double-stacked and there were piles on the floor; everything was dusty. Now all is clean, clear, and calm! 150 books have gone to charity, 100 to another room, and the rest have been reorganised. There are still many hundreds elsewhere in the house to be sorted but we'll leave those for another day.

21 January 2019 in Books, Miscellaneous | Permalink

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Well done Cornflower! I will now have to try and channel your inspiration and tackle my own shelves - something I have been procrastinating over for far too long!

Posted by: LizF | 21 January 2019 at 09:28 PM

Yes! Peter x

Posted by: Dark Puss | 21 January 2019 at 09:50 PM

The mood just came over me - very glad it did!

Posted by: Cornflower | 22 January 2019 at 09:42 AM

I was ruthless! (Well, a bit ruthless)

Posted by: Cornflower | 22 January 2019 at 09:46 AM

Your own (mini) Long Room. Well done. Just think what it would take to dust off that other collection.

Posted by: Mary | 22 January 2019 at 12:53 PM

Whilst watching the eclipse through the dining room windows early on Monday morning I fell to thinking how great it would be to have an entire wall of bookcases there rather than the various sized ones used now. There is much double shelving, piles on top , piles on the floor. One day.....meanwhile I really should have a culling session, yours sounds very inspiring.

Posted by: Fran H-B | 22 January 2019 at 04:39 PM

My goodness!

Posted by: Cornflower | 23 January 2019 at 02:57 PM

I must say that the room - though not unpleasant before - now feels so much better to be in.

Posted by: Cornflower | 23 January 2019 at 03:00 PM

Of course it does, now try having an empty desk too :-)

Posted by: Dark Puss | 24 January 2019 at 10:04 AM

It's pretty clear, too!

Posted by: Cornflower | 24 January 2019 at 02:13 PM

Funny--I have done the same over the past two weekends, engaging in the welcome process of feeding the cycle of the library booksale from whence we get many of the books that we try out, set aside, or fall in love with! So nice to see the clean space, even as we know they'll get dusty and full!

Posted by: Rebecca Leamon | 26 January 2019 at 01:44 AM

It is good to put books back into circulation, and yes, it's remarkable how quickly the space gained tends to fill up again.

Posted by: Cornflower | 26 January 2019 at 07:49 PM

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