tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post2037404857394376892..comments2023-06-02T17:54:44.641+02:00Comments on Connaissances: Books books booksJonathan Wonhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-27208332090147405322007-06-25T08:03:00.000+02:002007-06-25T08:03:00.000+02:00Kelly - well done!Ivy - that conjures an interesti...Kelly - well done!<BR/><BR/>Ivy - that conjures an interesting image!<BR/><BR/>Ms - If only they were JAs!Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-58990071512404408362007-06-23T22:24:00.000+02:002007-06-23T22:24:00.000+02:00What a shocking story. The web of life is so fragi...What a shocking story. The web of life is so fragile. This kind of stuff always makes me think how amazing it is that we know anything at ALL about previous civilisations. <BR/><BR/>Mind you, maybe they won't miss your mildewed Jeffrey Archers! <BR/><BR/>:ducks:Ms Baroquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836227454899083962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-18432553624367327892007-06-22T23:32:00.000+02:002007-06-22T23:32:00.000+02:00Jonathan, that's a big ouch!When I came over to th...Jonathan, that's a big ouch!<BR/><BR/>When I came over to the UK, I just had to bring some [not all, alas] of my books over. I remember saying, rather melodramtically, 'I'd rather go without clothes than without my books!' :-)Ivyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703056626322603467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-62341255187410022112007-06-22T17:45:00.000+02:002007-06-22T17:45:00.000+02:00Jonathan, I have no blog...I never really have any...Jonathan, I have no blog...I never really have anything to say of any great interest (not that that ever seems to stop me from commenting).<BR/><BR/>For those keeping score (me), move accomplished, no books relinquished!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-13380571990470445462007-06-22T00:04:00.000+02:002007-06-22T00:04:00.000+02:00Hello Clare - glad bloglines is working again. I'm...Hello Clare - glad bloglines is working again. I'm still reading you, I just couldn't think of anything to write about green tea, except perhaps that we have an air freshener in our bathroom called 'rituel du thé'! It was such a wacky name, I just had to buy it.<BR/><BR/>Yes, mould spreads very quickly, especially, it seems, when there is high humidity as we have had here. No. I don't think we can do anything about the wet. It's not our house, and really it needs a proper impermeable membrane putting in.<BR/><BR/>Kelly - thanks for your comment. Do you have a blog? I understand completely. I find it very difficult to part with books as well. But it's irrational really. If a book can be easily replaced, why make a fuss about letting it go? I think it may be quite a deep problem of psychology. Something to do with having appropriated a certain piece of knowledge, invested it with particular significance (because you chose it) and then not wanting to let go because that would mean a sort of rejection of the significance it has been given, which means also to reject something of yourself.Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-77517749952010871582007-06-21T17:03:00.000+02:002007-06-21T17:03:00.000+02:00Sighs...we too in the process of reminiscing about...Sighs...we too in the process of reminiscing about (me)/packing and urging me to cull through (my sort-of understanding husband) my thousands of books (how did I accumulate so many by age 32?) in preparation for a move. I've tried to explain to him why it's so hard to turn them loose, but I'm not sure I fully comprehend the reasons myself. For me, I think, there's something rather experiential about them to which I cling. Almost as though they were keepsakes from a voyage.<BR/><BR/>I promised him I'd carry all the book boxes if he'd just let me keep them...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-34099708777748065802007-06-20T15:44:00.000+02:002007-06-20T15:44:00.000+02:00Oh, my sympathies - that must have been such a sho...Oh, my sympathies - that must have been such a shock, and mould can grow so quickly. I suppose there is no economic way of damp-proofing the cellar? <BR/><BR/>P.S. Somehow or other your posts have not been picked up by my bloglines recently. No idea how that's happened but it seems OK now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-42528655935984879532007-06-19T00:06:00.000+02:002007-06-19T00:06:00.000+02:00Thanks Dick. I hope your "shed with pretensions" i...Thanks Dick. I hope your "shed with pretensions" is precociously water-tight!Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-25010821096864870362007-06-18T23:56:00.000+02:002007-06-18T23:56:00.000+02:00My heart goes out! When we moved nearly two years ...My heart goes out! When we moved nearly two years ago the most overwhelming problem was how to avoid having to get rid of even one of my thousands of books. So we spent three grand on a 'garden office' - a shed with pretensions - & they're nearly all in there, crammed, stacked & tottering, but safe!<BR/><BR/>Good luck with your ongoing clean-up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-63977630390140189032007-06-18T23:01:00.000+02:002007-06-18T23:01:00.000+02:00Hello Lucy. Well, that's a turn up. My sister-in-l...Hello Lucy. Well, that's a turn up. My sister-in-laws parents run the English bookshop in Josselin. You must mention our acquaintance the next time you go there!Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-28288222038722679002007-06-18T21:28:00.000+02:002007-06-18T21:28:00.000+02:00Oh this makes one want to weep!I think I have more...Oh this makes one want to weep!<BR/>I think I have more or less abandoned the idea that every book is sacred and must be preserved, only some.<BR/>Now and then we have a throwing out blitz and take a disproportionately long trip to Josselin where there is an English language bookshop and we think a better chance of our discards finding a good home, or at least somebody else has to make the decision about binning them!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-14499419719464309452007-06-18T00:04:00.000+02:002007-06-18T00:04:00.000+02:00Hello again Stuart, thanks for your comment. How c...Hello again Stuart, thanks for your comment. How come I can't follow you're name to a blog? Are you on another system? It was really nice talking to you last week at the picnic. Sorry, I didn't send you the details of the reading. Things were a bit rushed before heading off on Sunday.<BR/><BR/>As for books, I wish I had more of an easy come, easy go attitude. The books I let go to the fete were not that great, but I felt bad for them just the same. I must be a sentimentalist.Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-59212901102211163532007-06-17T23:32:00.000+02:002007-06-17T23:32:00.000+02:00I feel your pain, Jonathan. I feel just as protect...I feel your pain, Jonathan. I feel just as protective of my library, to the extent that I stopped lending books to friends after one or two never made it home again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com