Posted on 03/23/2006 11:53:14 AM PST by Physicist
Law librarian Rick Ramponi's collection of 3,000 regional cookbooks --including "Talk About Good" from the Lafayette, La., Junior League and "Shalom on the Range," which celebrates southwestern Jewish cuisine -- was manageable while he lived in a large house in Kalorama.
But when he moved to a one-bedroom Dupont Circle apartment with a partner who collects large art and architecture books, Ramponi had to exile those cherished culinary texts to a pair of rented storage units several blocks away.
Since 2002, he has spent more than $5,000 to keep them there, which "may be more than they are all worth," he concedes. "But there is a sentimental attachment and I associate them with places I've been, people I know."
Accountant Jennifer Kimball, who is studying for a master's degree in English, and policy analyst Matt Cail, who has a pair of master's degrees, call themselves "huge bibliophiles." Thus their chief requirement when condo shopping two years ago was enough wall space for shelves to hold their books. Already they have run out of space in their Alexandria flat. "Next year we will start looking for a house to buy that has room for children," she says. And books.
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LOL
About the floor and plenty more room for books. That's me too!
I have such a hard time culling any of them.
"Shalom on the Range,"
The banquet books for me are the Laiden Universe books by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Pilots Choice
Agent of Change
Conflict of Honors
Carpe Diem
Plan B
I Dare
These are Sci-Fi, but only in the sense that they are set in space. They are fully evolved characters and just when you think things can't get worse, they do. It's real life and they are just fabulous. I re-read them at least once a month, and if I get a craving I stay up all night to get one finished. LOL
And I'll be storing them when we move, until I can bring them home ...
I've been there. I have about 30 books on an SD card and it will hold a lot more. Whenever I have a moment that I'm forced to waste I have a book to read! It's great!
Thanks for the list. I will keep an eye out for them.
Sounds like something from James Lileks' Gallery of Regretable Food.
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
WARNING! The carrots here are not to be eaten. Your manly meat-a-rifficness will diminish if you eat the carrots. Vegetables are for commies.
Oh my! Books? What books? We don't have any books! (pause)
Oh, you mean THOSE books!
Seriesly, our coffee table is covered in about a foot of books. My kitchen table is also covered in books. Then there are the stacks of books. Of course, the bookshelves are all full as well. And I hate to admit it, but I stashed a bookshelf full of books into my baby's closet.
(I have another order of books arriving soon.)
That guy probably would remember, like I do, when Publishers' ClearingHouse was actually a book catalog and not the Prize Patrol!
Too many books are a problem. I have a separate library in my home but have had to weed out many books. I have left my entire estate to the L.A. Public Library as a result.
I confess.
LoL thats a lot of music. Say 50*365*24 or 3-400,000 cds or records for half a century. So far I am safe.
I had that ultimatum given me. Thus, hundreds of books never even made it home from work. I worked over a great bookstore which had Penguins for a buck. Oh, my.
You define "value" how? Resale value?
Some of us value the words inside.
It's like an ice cream man named Cone.
Uh-oh. . . . I've done that.
Only once, I think.
I keep buying Catcher in the Rye for no particular reason..
I have ten bookcases with 4-6 shelves each. But I need more for the books piled on the dining room table (which we can't eat on because there is no empty space).
My husband and I freely admit that we have a "problem". 15 years of military moves have kept it in check so far, but we've just settled down permanently and I can see this spiraling out of control!
That's a really great idea! I've been fighting to keep my collection in the study. Why didn't I think of that sooner? Husband's books in his study, cookbooks in the kitchen, craft books in the craft room...
I ll have room for MORE BOOKS!! LOL!
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