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LLLH: On Loving Books Too Much

Posted by DFO

Feb. 9, 2009 3:34 p.m. • 11 comments

I love books. I have many. My husband thinks I have an addiction problem with my books. When it is suggested to me to get rid of a few because ‘you only read them once,’ I am offended. I remember when we moved three years ago. I did get rid of a box, a small box, of books, and it was almost painful. I don’t know what it is, but I just like to be able to go to a bookshelf and pick a book up about a certain subject, or to just know that I always have something to read, which is an understatement/Live, Love, Laugh, Hope. More here.

Question: Are you a book worm, too?

11 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

JeanC on February 09 at 3:47 p.m.
Oh yeah :D
Token on February 09 at 4:07 p.m.
My library is limited only by my bank account, which is a good thing because otherwise I’d be swimming in books. I don’t just read them once, however. I read them over and over again. I have had to get new copies of some books because I read the originals to death.
Liz on February 09 at 4:10 p.m.
I like books. I don’t like clutter. I guess I am odd because I either go to the library or buy books at thrift stores and then take them back to the thrift store and get more..I’m cheap like that. What I DO have a lot of that I own is craft pattern books. Most of which I will never actually make anything out of but I get hours of enjoyment looking at the nice eye candy..
JeanieSpokane on February 09 at 4:21 p.m.
I love books! New books, used books, really old books. I relate to LLLH - I can’t get rid of them. Funny though, I can loan them and forget I loaned them and never think about them again. But I would never, ever throw one away. (I think that’s somewhere up there with First Degree Literary Murder.) And I just can’t bear the thought of strangers pawing through my dozens of boxes of books at a garage sale. I have several bookcases that line the walls upstairs and down. I would LOVE to have a library that is floor to ceiling with books and one of those ladders on wheels that you can roll around the circular shelves and gaze upon all your thousands of books!
Cindy_H on February 09 at 4:33 p.m.
I reject the label book worm. Worms are slimy, dank and live under rocks. I do not.
How ‘bout lover or book goddess?
hhuseland on February 09 at 5:47 p.m.
I’m with CindyH. What’s with the negative connotation. book worm suggests the Mr Peepers type sissy that has only books to replace his life. I fell asleep in class when I was a teen because of reading far into the night.

I have friends. Lots of them, but those closest to me are the books that I have collected over the years. Books never get angry with you, nor do they trick you, plot against you. They just are. One might say that books are non-judgmental, but that’s probably going to far. At one time, I owned a book store, called “Herb’s Paperback exchange, ” in Dalton Gardens before moving to Bayview. I kept all my favorite authors and donated about 3000 books to the then, new St vinny’s in Post Falls. I actually have so many books with so many different plots, that I can go back two or three years after reading them and not remembering how they turned out.

I do however, need to lose some. Anyone know a need for a set of 1982 encyclopedias? How about twelve hard cover Zane Grey Western romance stories. Anyone?

Most knowledge comes from reading. Without that I would have never been able to write professionally. Books? Bring ‘en on!

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.