Saturday mornings meant a trip to the library – my favourite outing of the week as a youngster. We’d load our arms with picture books, until that memorable day when I graduated to Chapter books.
At the pique of my book blessedness, I owned two bookstores. And then, years later, we sold off our worldly goods and set off on a new, minimalist adventure. I reduced my collection to one shelf.
A bookcase reveals much about a person, don’t you think? Best of all – I have a poem in the volume “We Will Not Be Silenced”. A dream come true.
(Thursdays are my day for expressing gratitude. When I saw Cee’s Fun Foto challenge: books, I knew right where the post belonged.)
One Woman's Quest II 
I have been shedding stuff, and books especially, I have read so many, I had over 5, 000 at one point, and enjoyed so much, but when I’m not going to revisit a book it is best passed on or recycled, which is also fun. But I must confess, the Kindle is less hassle space wise.
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There is pleasure in passing books on. In the past few years I have taken to listening to audio books – takes up no space, lol.
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Yes, the freedom, especially the space.
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I am learning not to hang onto so many, but to pass them along, but it is hard…so hard…I could never do one shelf!!
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You have some interesting books in your photos. 😀 😀
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Thanks Cee!
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P.S. Will you share that poem with us? 😀
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Sure – maybe I’ll make it a post.
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Great! Looking forward to it! 😀
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You’re right about a bookcase revealing much about a person just like a music library! Beautiful post V.J.! ❤
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Thanks Deborah!
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I loved looking for books at the library when I was a child – mostly at the school library as I remember. How did you ever limit books to one shelf? I could never do that. We downsized a few years ago – and had to let go of hundreds of books. So hard.
How wonderful to have a book with your poem published inside! Wow 🙂
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Getting rid of books was the hardest, I admit. They are trickling back in again though, lol.
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Same here!
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