{"id":4033,"date":"2022-09-21T10:53:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T14:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2022-09-21T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T14:56:24","slug":"a-bookish-kindred-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/21\/a-bookish-kindred-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bookish Kindred Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I know. This is a ridiculously large number of books. And yes, I did just buy them all. However, I spent less than $10.00 ($3.00 a bag) on all of them. I think I have mentioned before that I work at a library. That means that when donations come in for the ongoing book sale I get the chance to see them before they go out on the shelves. Recently, I walked into the back room to find out that apparently, my bookish kindred spirit had donated a huge selection of books. My daughter says I have old lady taste in books so I am perfectly aware that my bookish kindred spirit’s books may have been donated because relatives are clearing out her library after her death but I prefer not to think about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would love to sit down and chat with her about books and London and history. Obviously, she loves all these things. Just look at those book stacks. To be honest, I could have taken home just about all the boxes of books she donated but that would be even more ridiculous than what I did buy. There were a ton more history books that looked interesting but I had to draw the line somewhere. There were also a number of books in the collection that I already own; Josephine Tey, Barbara Pym, and eight other Georgette Heyer mysteries that I bought for my sister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder who she was (for some reason I assume it was an older woman) and I wonder what she was like. Obviously, she had very good taste in books! I wonder which of these were favorites of hers. I hope she is still alive and reading all the other books left on her shelves. I wish her a good cup of tea, a lovely slice of cake, and all the time in the world to enjoy her books. I wish that for you too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know. This is a ridiculously large number of books. And yes, I did just buy them all. However, I spent less than $10.00 ($3.00 a bag) on all of them. I think I have mentioned before that I work at a library. That means that when donations come in for the ongoing book sale I get the chance to see them before they go out on the shelves. Recently, I walked into the back room to find out that apparently, my bookish kindred spirit had donated a huge selection of books. My daughter says I have old lady taste in books so I am perfectly aware that my bookish kindred spirit’s books may have been donated because relatives are clearing out her library after her death but I prefer not to think about that. I would love to sit down and chat with her about books and London and history. Obviously, she loves all these things. Just look at those book stacks. To be honest, I could have taken home just about all the boxes of books she donated but that would be even more ridiculous than what I did buy. There were a ton more history books that looked interesting but I had to draw the line somewhere. There were also a number of books in the collection that I already own; Josephine Tey, Barbara Pym, and eight other Georgette Heyer mysteries that I bought for my sister. I wonder who she was (for some reason I assume it was an older woman) and I wonder what she was like. Obviously, she had very good taste in books! I wonder which of these were favorites of hers. I hope she is still alive and reading all the other books left on her shelves. I wish her a good cup of tea, a lovely slice of cake, and all the time in the world to enjoy her books. I wish that for you too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-i-bought"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4041,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/4041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}