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The Books of Others, Part Two
August 30, 2007
Reader responses to my post "The Books of Others" were delightful. I feel so light and free! I declared, "My name is Bethanne, and I'm a book snoop..." and heard a mighty chorus: "Hi, Bethanne."
Now, there is a flip side to viewing other people's bookshelves, and it's this -- seeing which books people leave behind in motel rooms. Now I know I'm also not alone in sometimes deciding that I can't take it with me -- because of actual weight, or lack thereof content-wise, a book must stay on an alien nightstand, or be tucked into an airplane seatback, or left on a shelf or couner in a train station.
So take a look at the list in this article of Top Ten Most Discarded Books in Hotel Rooms. They include Piers Morgan's autobigraphy (snort!), 'The Diana Chronicles,' a book called 'I Can Make You Thin,' and... 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.' See? The intellectually lightweight, and the weighty.
If I really love a book and think someone else will, too, I usually try to haul it along with me, no matter what. So I do not abandon books lightly. However, recently I felt absolutely no compunction in jettisoning a far-too-slight women's novel on a plane. (What? You thought I'd tell you which one?) Which book would or did you most recently leave behind without a backwards glance? If you don't wish to "tell," either, then at least reveal why and when you do cast off books...
Posted by Bethanne Patrick on August 30, 2007 | Comments (4)
