Weekly reading/watching meme

[petronia]

Books:

Not much this week. Got through a few more chapters of the Mark Atherton since I posted last, IIRC; am about halfway through that one now. My best reading experience this week was actually an interior design photobook called New Small Apartments, in a nice thyme-scented bath with a campari soda. XD I've never wanted a big house -- it feels

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[flemmings]

The books. One needs space for the books. See also: clothes, shoes, souvenirs. (Old manga do not come in e-reader format, though maybe some do, and an e-reader would be better for that than bunko. But still.)

Where'd the thyme scent come from?

[petronia]

I don't think I will ever need that many books at one time. I've realized that eventually, after a few years (7? 8? more than 5 but less than a full decade), my former interests get put out to pasture for good. Maybe 10-20% of stuff survives that cutoff? The same applies to clothes, and shoes destroy themselves on my watch. XD; I keep meaning to sell some of my manga (possibly to repurchase them in bunko) but it hasn't gotten urgent since I'm not short on space or money yet.

Thyme scent was a medicinal thyme bath powder randomly picked up from the pharmacy! It was surprisingly nice.

[flemmings]

But all your childhood books? Just thrown away?

You missed the 'you never know when it will come in handy' gene. I have dresses from 40 years ago. (Actually I have dresses from 80 years ago, that were my mother's.)

[petronia]

I haven't missed it, actually, I have it on both sides. My mom and my paternal grandmother are both outright hoarders of the classic type (i.e. refuse to admit they have a problem), though they hoard different things. This is the result of a lifetime of self-directed cognitive training, because if I don't simply ignore my brain when it says things like "this may come in handy" I will end up with 5,000 used plastic bags in a cabinet. XD

One of the side effects of growing up fairly poor (but not realizing it) is that I don't really have that many childhood books. XD; Other than stuff I'd want anyway like the Tolkien, I have maybe one bookcase full. I mostly read from the library.

[meril]

Mine is 1000 or so, only because I hate working from home off the kitchen table, and I would have nowhere to put the books.

Those apartment books suck for the reasons you've said.

[petronia]

I don't really want a separate office, I think -- in my parents' house using the desktop meant I was relegated to a freezing corner of my dad's basement studio, for YEARS. Now I intend to work in the centre of my home, precisely close to the source of mixed drinks and tea. XD