The books from my mom's collection

[libodem]

I was going to toss the paperbacks and I just couldn't. Now I have to move them.
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[scarletwoman]

1. Why not donate them somewhere?

My local library keeps a cart full of donated books, with a little collection box on the side - people can take a book off the cart and pay what they want, or not pay at all. If not a library, some second hand stores stock books and might be glad of a donation. Like you, I'm constitutionally unable to throw books away - but I'm happy to give them away when I can.

[libodem]

2. I think I might keep them

My dad referred to his books as 'old friends'. I was only going to keep the hard backs. But these tell the reading habits of a certain era.

[libodem]

3. Sometimes I have to scour

My own bookshelves for reading material. You can tell my mom was a fat feminist.way back when. Here's another shot.

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[Curmudgeoness]

4. Some things are just worth keeping.

Look at how well worn those books are. They were your mother's friends. I have shelves full of my mother's books, and more shelves of my own books. I have culled some of my mother's books that I just had zero interest in ever picking up to read, but there is still a large collection. And I have been pleasantly surprised by some of the books in that collection that I have picked up to read. The first one was the book of short stories that she was in the middle of when she died.....One Basket by Edna Ferber, and I am so much better off to have read that.

Memories in the form of something tangible, like books, are impossible to get back once they are gone. Take at least some with you when you move. Give the rest to the library if they take donations as a fund-raiser (as my library does), or take them to a nursing home, or leave them in a Laundromat or coffee shop. Don't throw them out.

[libodem]

5. Good advice

I'm taking it. I don't think I ever unboxed the hard backs. They are some place in the garage.

Tao of Physics is mine.
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[Curmudgeoness]

6. It looks like your mother was an interesting woman

and a great inspiration to you. A toast to great women!

[libodem]

7. And a high five

My mom was interesting and intelligent. She was an English and journalism major. She helped bring me along.

[Enthusiast]

8. I enjoyed that—Tao of Physics.

I passed my copy on to a friend several years ago.

[libodem]

9. It's readable by regular folks

I should revisit that book. It was interesting down to the subatomic particles.

[Enthusiast]

10. It was readable.

I wonder what a revised version would be like now that the existence of the Higgs boson has been confirmed. I guess we can say it exists. Not sure.

[libodem]

11. It would be interestimg

Science isn't static that's for sure. It more fluid and organic than something authoritarian and absolute like religion.

It expands to take in new discovery. Funny how 'truth' differs though disciplines.

[Enthusiast]

12. Science has enriched my life since I was a child.

When they said, "This is a dinosaur, they are extinct." This was very stimulating to my young mind. I imagine many of us have a similar story.

[libodem]

13. I really like science

My oldest son just received his Bachelors in environmental science. He is in Alaska collecting and transmitting data on coastal erosion. It runs in the family.

[Enthusiast]

14. How wonderful!

Congratulations to your son.

[libodem]

15. Thank you very much

Bright kid.