The dead they cannot rise, an' you'd better dry your eyes

[sovay]

So far I have packed up all my classics books (original-language and grammar; scholarship and translations remain in the dining room), poetry, scripts and screenplays, biographies, anthologies, and paperback fiction A–F inclusive. There are eleven boxes in rushthatspeaks and gaudior's spare room already and ten more boxes waiting here to move. That only leaves everything else, including all the hardcovers, my publications and the greater portion of the nonfiction. I'm estimating about sixty boxes this time, media included, but it might turn out to be more. I'm just remembering it was about fifty last time and that was in 2013.

I'm leaving out a small stack of books I am in the middle of reading and/or books I wanted to re-read as they went by: so far it consists of Ray Monk's Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1990), Jane Yolen's Neptune Rising: Songs & Tales of the Undersea Folk (1982), and the 1899 Doubleday edition of Rudyard Kipling's Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads that still has the left-facing swastika stamped on the cover.

I need more boxes.

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

No; even the percentage I brought was almost too much for this house (which was not exactly short of books already; I could probably spend the rest of my life just reading Karen's collection, never mind my own). Which was clear in advance, so I did a massive winnowing, and left behind everything that I could conceivably live without. I brought almost all the cookbooks, almost all the SF/F, a percentage of the children's books, a small percentage of the mysteries; after that it was selected authors - Eliot, Kipling, like that. Not much non-fiction. I had a whole Crusades history collection which I kinda didn't need any more since the Outremer books are finished, but didn't want to break up; that's staying with friends in the UK. The rest got donated.

[sovay]

I had a whole Crusades history collection which I kinda didn't need any more since the Outremer books are finished, but didn't want to break up; that's staying with friends in the UK. The rest got donated.

I'm glad the Crusades went to friends.