It’s empty; the second one. And, it’s out the door. I also sent books hither and yon and I have many more to take to thrift stores. I am firm in my resolve to buy no books in the next year; however, I did pull a few out of the boxes and I have them to read. The choices are interesting. What do I choose out of 500+ books? If you had to list 25 favorite books; or books you want to read; or books you want to buy…what would they be?
I kept several books by Orhan Pamuk and as assortment of Turkish authors. I kept a few “trashy” reads. I kept three by Steinbeck. I kept a couple of Pulitzer Prize winners.
And, I sent some absolute favorites on. Richard Brautigan books. I have had them since I was 19 or 20. I decided to put them up on Bookmooch, so that people who wanted them would get them. They were gone in minutes. Poetry. Simple. Sensual. Visual.
Brautigan in a laundromat in San Francisco. The author is unknown.
Your money in my
Machine (#4)
By accident, I put
My money in another
Machine (#6)
On purpose, I put
Your clothes in the
Empty machine full
Of water and no
Clothes
It was lonely.