Unfortunately snobs were in control of New York City, and the snobs were insisting that these nouveau riche be kept out of all the right sort of places. In the years following the American Civil War, there were industrialists and financiers who were making money by the pot full. Title: To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got StartedĪuthors: Gail MacColl and Carol McD. The genres will vary from one post to the next, and so will the age of the book. Hopefully I'll choose a book that appeals to you and makes you try to find it at your local library or to buy your own copy. This is the real purpose behind Pick of the Litter. Moving right along, I thought that it might be fun, from time to time, to show you one of the books on my shelves that will never be weeded out, swapped out, sold, or donated. If I could, I'd invite y'all over for a weekend's Weed-a-Thon, but I can't. I now have a little over 3,000 books in the house, and you know what? I know that the thought of me getting rid of at least 1,000 books is like a dagger in the heart to some of you. I could maintain a steady stream of the books I wanted into the house, but at the same time, I was weeding out my books shelf by shelf. That's one of the main reasons why I joined Paperback Swap. I was running out of room, and I'd made myself a promise that I would never go back to having piles of books on the floor and every other flat surface available. One thing that's guaranteed is that my Nirvana is someone else's idea of Hell, and you know what? Neither one of us is wrong.Īt one point I had over 4,000 books on 28 bookcases in this house. Mix in a splash of dystopian fiction, a pinch of historical fiction, a flake of biography, a seed of time travel, and a dash of history, and I'm in Nirvana. One of the things that makes this entire book-loving community so wonderful is its diversity.
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