Tag Archives: weeding

Definitely Not the Opera

Posted on May 30, 2012 by

(This isn’t a real Perfect Whole essay. Those are long and complicated! This is just a short post about the amazing new place blogging took me recently.) I was contacted by Clare Lawlor, a producer at a CBC radio show … Continue reading →

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Elegy for a Thousand Stolen Books

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

After the seven-year project of weeding my high school library, one task remained: inventory. I had avoided it for several years, reasoning that there wasn’t much point in carefully accounting for books I would probably discard anyway. If someone had … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Believe You’re Throwing Out Books!

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

I am a librarian but no longer a bibliophile. Throwing out thousands of books in three libraries over the past nine years has cured me of bibliophilia, though nothing on this side of mortality can ever release me from my … Continue reading →

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