[Magdalen] trying to sell my house

[Marion Thompson]

Jim, who is here for a day or two to help, has removed some 39 boxes of 
books to his place and I have donated a further 20 or so. Another six 
have gone into the pod.  And a few have been retained close at hand for 
current churchy reference/  Interestingly enough, fiction hasn't been a 
big category, other than in my foundational library going back many decades.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 5/7/2015 6:25 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> From: Grace Cangialosi
>
>> My granddaughter is 18 and horse crazy and loves books. If they're 
>> all boxed up, I'd pay to ship them to her...
>
> Sounds like my older sister Patricia. She just purchased a new horse 
> (at age 72) after an unfortunate incident where a horse she bought 
> turned out to be a nasty piece of work (the horse had done this with 
> other buyers, it turned out). But being thrown from a horse at age 72 
> is apparently just part of that love for horses that so many girls 
> fall into.
>
> As for books, she drove her large van from Chicago to Smithtown when 
> we were moving, and took four bookcases and the books that were in 
> them, plus another dozen cartons of books. She cleared all the mystery 
> books and some Sic Fi and other miscellaneous fiction.
>
> I recently came across (in unpacking) a First Edition "Black Beauty" 
> which I've sent to her -- and she remembers it as her "favorite book" 
> as a little girl.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
> .
>