{"id":885,"date":"2008-01-30T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:40","slug":"too-many-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Too many books?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don’t have nearly enough shelf space for all my books, so they tend to pile up in all the expected places around the house. This is 1\/3 of one of the 4 piles on the desk in my office – the top of the tallest pile that threatens to topple over at any moment. All but the King book are ones I’ve already read, but haven’t found a place for just yet.<\/p>\n

The Michael Korda book was part of the <\/span>horse obsession last summer<\/span><\/a> – thank goodness that never went much beyond books! This was my least favorite of the bunch I read and I still haven’t managed to recycle it to the trash.<\/p>\n

The Pine Barrens field guide more or less lives on my desk together with a wildflower ID book on the off chance that I’ll feel like puzzling over the bundle of photos I took there this spring and summer. The McPhee book is a great one, but I’m only a quarter way through it since October or so. I’m not really reading that one in a linear way anyway; instead picking it up and reading a chaper when it falls out of the pile at me.<\/p>\n

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Fields of Sun and Grass is a great book… one that I’ve read a few times; most recently back in April in preparation for that trip up to the <\/span>Meadowlands in North Jersey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

So… I’m wondering what you all do with the books you no longer have a use for? Anything natural history related that I’m willing to part with I donate to the local Audubon chapter for fundraisers, but the rest of them? Save me from being buried, please!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t have nearly enough shelf space for all my books, so they tend to pile up in all the expected places around the house. This is 1\/3 of one of the 4 piles on the desk in my office – the top of the tallest pile that threatens to topple over at any moment. … Continue reading Too many books?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}