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Saturday, June 21, 2003 Look what I got for $19.... The wings of the dove, Washington square (Henry James), Madame Bovary, The Tempest, Nausea (Sartre), Beautiful and damned (Fitzgerald), Great Expectations, Frankenstein, 1984, The Brothers Karamazov, Brave New World (Huxley), Future Shock (Toffler), Dream power (know yourelf from your dream), The theory of the leisure class, Selected travle writings & Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton), French Dictionary, Mythology (Edith Hamilton), Greek Historians And they are all in good condition! I had to try very hard not to buy more Agatha Christie's detective books, which I bought tens of them in past two years from this annual sale at our public library. I guess now it is time I donate them back. The joy of possessing new books (even they are used!) are enormous. But moving them with tons of my other book collections to California is really a pain on neck. With the time goes by and I'm getting older, I'm really getting worried if I could read through all books I owned, before I leave the world . How about one third of them? Then there is a issue of choice: for every book I read, I abandon the chance of reading another maybe better book (like getting married, ha!), LIfe is so short. When you have such a stupid anxiety, it is quite difficult to concentrate on reading one thing. Here is what I do: I read three or four books together which cover diversed topics. In mathematics senses, the odds of losing chance reading other books is basiclly the same, but it really reduce the psychological sense of loss. And I also save some classic books for the future, when I have to read them with my kids anyway. posted by lmeimei @2:22 PM| permanent link| | |
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