Breaking up is hard to do

[desperance]

So when I packed the interesting Asian cookery books, I barely stopped to think about it: just picked out the duplicates and kept everything else (well, bar one, a sort of '70s compendium that was fat and heavy and, no, not that interesting).

I just put that whole empty bookshelf out into the back alley for anyone to help themselves (wow: giving bookshelves away? I really must be leaving...). Which means that now I have easy access to the shelf behind it, where I kept books I didn't need such easy access to: which means the back end of the cookery collection, basically stuff I don't use and probably never will. And I'm putting two of those on the discard pile for every one that goes into a box for keeping, because honestly, when am I ever going to use The Harrod's Book of Entertaining? - but even so, it's hard. They're a part of the collection, damn it, and I hate breaking up a collection. Even the dull stuff has its place.

But its place is not California. No. The dull stuff isn't coming.

In other news, I am frying sossidges for cats lunch. They're I'm looking forward to that.