September 3, 2009
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Culling books
Keep Tillich, keep Niebuhr, especially H. Richard, who said that, unlike his brother, “I think before I write,” not that Merton, maybe this Merton, something good about fasting in here, that knitting book says in 20 pages what this one says in 200, what about Ngaio? Did Hillerman really write so many? Yes to Ross Thomas, Lathan, Sayers, not to Haissen, no, wait, it’s about the hurricane, yes to the books on science, ecology, religion, all pub dates in ’60s and ’70s, still relevant, books coming about this all the time. What about Harvey Cox? Dick Francis? What is Barbara Pym doing over there? No to Jesuits, college textbook on classical music, Having Our Say, I can read that at my mother-in-law’s. Keep Brunner, Patrick O’Brian, sorry Martin Marty, Vietnam tunnels go, D-Day stays, all Barbara Tuchman should be grouped together. Five more, five more, and then you can take a break. Maybe blog.
