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Don’t be Ashamed of your TBR Book Pile – David Quammen QUOTES FOR WRITERS AND READERS

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
David Quammen

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4 comments on “Don’t be Ashamed of your TBR Book Pile – David Quammen QUOTES FOR WRITERS AND READERS”

  1. Glen Donaldson
    March 31, 2024
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    Yep, I’ve got rooms decorated with ‘wallpaper’.

    Here in Australia we have a tv lifestyle show called SPACE INVADERS. It’s one of those programs where hoarders are assisted to declutter their homes.

    Last night’s episode featured two sisters, one of which I’d describe as an out-of-control bibliophile (she had also somehow ‘retained’ over 200 board games in amongst her house-seizing jumble).

    In her case the wallpaper was definitely peeling but the host managed – as he always does via his particular brand of ‘tough love’ – to get them to both mercilessly book self-cull.

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  2. bridget whelan
    March 31, 2024
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    We have similar programmes in the UK. They are not something I tend to watch & I would have thought the point was to clear a path to the books…but yes, I have to admit sometimes we do hold onto to them for too long. (When I say we I mean me.)

    Tried to stick to the One in, One out rule but failed. The only books that find their way from my house to the charity shop are the ones I have read and KNOW I won’t re-read. The books of ‘majestic potentiality’ stay firmly where they are

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  3. Jennie
    March 31, 2024
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    Yes!

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