Book Purge

Moving is a great excuse to get rid of crap you don't really need, and most of it joyously: Goodbye misshapen umbrella, half-full bottles of shampoo and lotion, twin-sized Wal-mart comforter from Freshman year of college--you shan't be coming with me!

And then there is the crap which really should get retired, but you keep around move after move because you can't bear to get rid of it--which is why I'm still holding onto Things Fall Apart (appropriately, being held together with a rubber band) and a copy of The Blind Assassin that's been read umpteen times, lent to everyone I know, and chewed-on by an overexcited chihuahua.

In fact, most of my books fall into this "egregiously-used" category; that, plus the books I've "rescued" from other people's moves (!!) because they would have been thrown out. Surely I had good intentions at the time, but Guide to Texas Politics: you have been moved three times now and never once read.

This time around: Operation Show No Mercy.