(Ok so it's only partially a good excuse to get a pic of Johnny in there!!!)
Yet these are not the only treasures to be discovered out there apparently. Peat Weblog has a fabulous link to a wonderful idea of a site recommended by Radio 4 apparently!
Book Crossing is a scheme whereby people DELIBERATELY leave books in public places, log the place they left it and await to see where it might have travelled!
Only trouble is I have to dig out some books I enjoyed but didn't love SO much that I can't part with them. I do have just a FEW books around the place. In fact someone sitting in my dining room recently looked up at the groaning shelves and said, "Sarah are those all your books?" "No," I answered, "the rest are upstairs!!" When I like to think I'm not too materialistic I have to remind myself about my love of books.
2 comments:
Ben that was sneaky!
I'm really not that organised but I like to make it look like I don't FILL any given day with blogging!
I heard (once upon a time) that the average household has three (yes 3, three, THREE!) books.
If that's the average, then how few do some houses have, thinking of you, Youthblog, myself, my parents, grandmother, aunts (x3) and friends having oodles and oodles and oodles.
Living in a shoebox means I don't have to move to be able to see my entire collection of possessions and count the 50 books I have with me at uni (7 of which are course related). Add the ones that I didn't pack but will slowly migrate next year when I have a house rather than a room...
Is it materialistic to collect treasures that will one day be out of print, so we can pass our joys on to the next generations??
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