Peckerwood Manor

Welcome back to The Peckerwood Book Club, the first of 2024! If you're like me, your bookshelves are always near-to-bursting. Me and the hubs have floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the bedroom, the guest room, the living room, and in what we call the dining room, or dining area, against the wall next to the kitchen table. Too much? Probably, but Elder Cat has plenty of wee areas in the shelves to hop up on and rest, or to leap from (without warning) if he's so inclined.  But when is too many books too many? Is there such a thing? Are you panicking just thinking about this? How do you decide which books to keep and which to pitch? And when? For our part, we moved to a new place last summer, and just after, did a serious inspection of every book in our collection as we unpacked them. We had room for them all - we'd already made sure of that - but knew that our shelves would likely be bursting at the seams (again) in about a year if we didn't take drastic action. And so we d...