Most of it was not based on memory. I keep bags of books for a friend of mine who I loan reading material to. I finish a book and toss it into the bag and give her a bag only every couple of months or so which means I've usually got 3 or 4 bags of books in the pipeline. I went through those and the "too awful to save" bag that goes to library book sales and recreated what I'd read. Only a few books relied on my memory.
The trouble also is, I re-read a heck of a lot. I was actually cringeing when you said you recycled books.
I don't reread so much but that doesn't mean I constantly get rid of books I've read. If I've really loved something, I hang onto it. Which is why I joke about living in a book-lined cave. The books I recycle are the ones that either I didn't like at all or ones that I may have liked okay, but they weren't in that *love it must hold onto it* category. Those generally go to friends or to libraries or senior citizen centers or the like.
I do know that I didn't read anything but Sf and F barring a couple of mysteries.
Same here. And I do read romances now and again, though the bulk is sff and mysteries.
I've tried reading out of the genres but unless your name is Dorothy Dunnett
I'll have to try her one of these days.
Perhaps I should do this next year, just to see what I do actually read.
It's actually kind of fun. In my original file I did mini-reviews of each book, but that's completely lost now. :-(
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Date: 2006-12-15 07:52 pm (UTC)Most of it was not based on memory. I keep bags of books for a friend of mine who I loan reading material to. I finish a book and toss it into the bag and give her a bag only every couple of months or so which means I've usually got 3 or 4 bags of books in the pipeline. I went through those and the "too awful to save" bag that goes to library book sales and recreated what I'd read. Only a few books relied on my memory.
The trouble also is, I re-read a heck of a lot. I was actually cringeing when you said you recycled books.
I don't reread so much but that doesn't mean I constantly get rid of books I've read. If I've really loved something, I hang onto it. Which is why I joke about living in a book-lined cave. The books I recycle are the ones that either I didn't like at all or ones that I may have liked okay, but they weren't in that *love it must hold onto it* category. Those generally go to friends or to libraries or senior citizen centers or the like.
I do know that I didn't read anything but Sf and F barring a couple of mysteries.
Same here. And I do read romances now and again, though the bulk is sff and mysteries.
I've tried reading out of the genres but unless your name is Dorothy Dunnett
I'll have to try her one of these days.
Perhaps I should do this next year, just to see what I do actually read.
It's actually kind of fun. In my original file I did mini-reviews of each book, but that's completely lost now. :-(