Room For All

[BetteTheRed]

Yes, I have one buffet with hutch that stores and displays that sort of thing. It's full but not overcrowded. Matches a dining room suite with a leaf, only four chairs though, but big guy has two oak chairs if re-stained in a cherry colour and seats done to match the four would take us to six (and the style is not dissimilar). We rarely entertain many more than that.

Some stuff will have to be replaced. Not much left in the way of living room furniture for instance (a leather chair, an antique armchair and a magazine stand and side table. No couches (there's a teak love seat in the dry garage under consideration for reupholstering), no coffee table. But there are enough book cases left if I can get better at paring the books down respectfully.

And I'm finding working with our new Nigerian friend, Prisca, about different cultural expectations of space. I consider my house a doll house, I don't know if the big guy will be able to navigate it really. Top floor is only 900 square feet or so, equal in the basement, but half of it is a bit damp, the undamp bit hosts a long-term boarder/friend and her cat and then there's a pretty big laundry room. Prisca thinks the house is enormous.

 

[paradox3]

@BetteTheRed
I actually turfed a lot of books when I did my big decluttering a while ago. We had many books that we never, ever looked at. I have saved some kids' books and toys that my granddaughter enjoys when she is here.

Perhaps some of it will go to donation when she's aged out of it.

Books and sentimental items are two really tough areas for a lot of people to tackle.

You and the Big Guy seem to be combining your dining rooms. Are you combining your households? Did I miss that?

 

[BetteTheRed]

I actually turfed a lot of books when I did my big decluttering a while ago. We had many books that we never, ever looked at. I have saved some kids' books and toys that my granddaughter enjoys when she is here.

I love books. I love having 12 different bibles to refer to. I have a large bookcase for theology books and bibles. I'm getting rid of as many OPs books as possible, to make room for my pleasant collection of god, history and good literature, with a shelf or two reserved for "read and liked/fate uncertain" and ONLY one shelf for the |"unread, but it might be worth a bash"

 

[BetteTheRed]

You and the Big Guy seem to be combining your dining rooms. Are you combining your households? Did I miss that?

Nothing missing. It's a possible impetus. I'm getting more and more like I live in two houses, and I'm never sure what is where. And while we have concluded that sleeping together all night is not optimal, it would be nice if our respective comfy beds were next door to each other, not 1.2 km away

 

[BetteTheRed]

And here's your "Room for All" moment. Sometime sorting books, I will find Geronimo's Bones and read the last chapter.

 

[Redbaron]

Good morning! Somewhere there's a home-decor 'expert' who claims one should have no more than 30 books. Frankly, I believe this individual is misguided. For some of us, getting rid of books can be an emotional upheaval. Anyway, kudos to those who are doing it, and those who have survived the experience. As we continue to clean out, as we deal with illness, as we go through and experience all the stuff that life holds for us, may we take time for relaxing wit a mug or cup, and gather in spirit round the Coffee Cart for sharing support and conversation. All is ready, join in as you can!

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[paradox3]

The home decor and organizing gurus have a lot to say about books.

I haven't seen the 30 books rule. I have seen the rule that bookshelves should consist of one third books, one third "interesting objects" and one third clear space.

Organizing books by colour of the spines is popular idea.

There has also been a recent trend to turn your books around so that the pages are out with the spines at the back of the shelf.

Don't get me started on those stacks of coffee table books which match the colour scheme of the room.

 

[Luce NDs]

The home decor and organizing gurus have a lot to say about books.

I haven't seen the 30 books rule. I have seen the rule that bookshelves should consist of one third books, one third "interesting objects" and one third clear space.

Organizing books by colour of the spines is popular idea.

There has also been a recent trend to turn your books around so that the pages are out with the spines at the back of the shelf.

Don't get me started on those stacks of coffee table books which match the colour scheme of the room.

Then there is the comprehension of fully booked space ... mentally filled? Lord ... how to say that without a mindless objection ... more fluids to be stirred ...

 

[Luce NDs]

If time travel is only possible withing the realm of the mind tracing history ... what do the mindless do?
Raises question about lost soul ... no? Is that dark or light conquest as a conflict in the desires?

Thus the first and last get very confused and chaotic ... dissonance ensues! Damn we need a spark ...

Ultimately is timelessness a state that the very busy have no time for in the recall situation ... so that outside the present situation they have no psyche essence? Consequently they must go by the book ... their protocol as established or set in edifice ... it just is!

Time as narrator thus sets a baffling wall between 3 characters ... in an urge to see what blasts forth ... mystery, or abyss? Ever get that emptied sensation ...

 

[Northwind]

Books were hard to deal with when we've downsized. We finally did it and lived to tell about it. I can't think of any books I miss, though I'm hoping I didn't get rid of two my mother gave me. *note so self, check that later.

I will be finishing a book today and returning it to the library. I will also be checking out a used book sale at a local mall. (any book I buy will go into the book share shelves at the park.

Kudos to @bette on the decluttering process.

 

[paradox3]

I have a collection of Bibles but I am more likely to use bible gateway these days. I consult my NIV study Bible on occasion.

I have retired my concordance from regular use (hello internet) but I am hanging onto it for sentimental reasons. It was a gift which was presented to me when I joined CGIT in 1967. I also have my childhood bible and a copy of the little blue hymn book.

 

[Mendalla]

I have been debating whether I need to have a study bible or something like it. There's times when the notes might be helpful. I find the commentaries on Biblegateway skew a bit traditionalist or conservative. A good scholarly concordance would be another option. I have a bunch of gift money to spend at Indigo so money is no object. Just not sure how useful it would really be.

 

[paradox3]

I have been debating whether I need to have a study bible or something like it. There's times when the notes might be helpful. I find the commentaries on Biblegateway skew a bit traditionalist or conservative. A good scholarly concordance would be another option. I have a bunch of gift money to spend at Indigo so money is no object. Just not sure how useful it would really be.

We have often seen recommendations here for the Oxford Study Bible.

My NIV study Bible definitely leans to the conservative/ evangelical side. But it is still a useful resource.

The Oxford Study Bible leans more liberal/ metaphorical I have been told. I wonder if I would recognize liberal bias when I encountered it?

 

[paradox3]

A little concordance story. We heard a protest song at a folk festival about picking up Enoch's hammer. I assumed the reference was biblical and tried to find it in my hard copy concordance.

Nope. Wasn't there.

Turns out the reference comes from the Labour movement and isn't biblical at all.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I like the Oxford NSRV as a reference bible. The Jesus Seminar's The Five Gospels also has some very rich commentary, although it skews liberal...

 

[paradox3]

The Five Gospels always seemed very dry and overly logical to me. The commentary used to kill the poetry of the texts for me.

I don't have it around any longer. It didn't survive the most recent cull of my bookshelves.

 

[Carolla]

I have been debating whether I need to have a study bible or something like it. There's times when the notes might be helpful. I find the commentaries on Biblegateway skew a bit traditionalist or conservative. A good scholarly concordance would be another option. I have a bunch of gift money to spend at Indigo so money is no object. Just not sure how useful it would really be.

I have the NRSV Harper Study Bible (Expanded & Updated) I find it useful. This is what the back cover highlights -
Study notes on every page; Book Outlines; Book Introductions - bkgrnd info on each book; Cross Reference System; Maps & Charts; Complete NRSV Concordance. There's probably a newer one now - I think I purchased this in the early 1990s. Zondervan Publishing.

 

[Mendalla]

I have the NRSV Harper Study Bible (Expanded & Updated) I find it useful. This is what the back cover highlights -
Study notes on every page; Book Outlines; Book Introductions - bkgrnd info on each book; Cross Reference System; Maps & Charts; Complete NRSV Concordance. There's probably a newer one now - I think I purchased this in the early 1990s. Zondervan Publishing.

I would imagine that if an NRSVUE version hasn't come out already, it should be soon. I think that's what our minister used when we had a bible study group in my UU congregation (over the very loud protests of some of the humanist crowd who apparently forgot that were were a UU church, not a humanist society).

 

[Redbaron]

Good Friday morning! Books, their display and storage, study Bibles of various perspectives and slants, and all the other things that come up in the day, we gather around the Coffee Cart to discuss. The coffee is fresh, tea water hot, goodies unwrapped and ready. Cmeon in and join the conversation!

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]

 

[Luce NDs]

Do bibles with a slant fall in with Kant and the Bucket List? There is little evidence of means and medium as a very thin line walked by those that could see this sacred chord ... really it is mute and watching ... according to the rule; " walk softly into the night, do no damage"!

There are wild and unseen things that need the night ... nocturns? Dippy essences ... that are lost to those overly indulged in labors ... chronic stress disorders? Very prone to collateral damages ... HP Deletion? Look what happened to the Snow Crabs ... overworked and overheated ...

The secure "wealthy" do not like to hear of it ... even if it roils under their fete ... thus cycling and go rounds ... Big Wheels Turn!