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.

Comments

[kore]

You have all my sympathies. I HATE packing. Packing is one of the major reasons I absolutely hate moving, because I have....well, nothing but books, really. But about 9500 of them, I think.

[phi]

I have SO MANY boxes. Do you want boxes?

[umadoshi]

Ohhh, packing. :/ Good luck!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Did I tell you that my process of emigration was to ship 120 boxes, 115 of which were books? And I still left two-thirds of what I had behind me?

[gwynnega]

Good luck with the packing and moving of the books!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Can I help? Gods know I've packed books.

Nine