tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post2286828416919382207..comments2023-12-23T19:32:16.381-07:00Comments on The Goat's Lunch Pail: Let It Be HypberboleLeah J. Utashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497599109798015888noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-2360845789879009922007-08-09T20:39:00.000-06:002007-08-09T20:39:00.000-06:00Did you know in many places it is a rule that libr...Did you know in many places it is a rule that libraries must dispose of books which haven't been checked out in a certain period of time. <BR/><BR/>A good librarian lets people know about this and gets his or her buddies to start checking out books in jeopardy of the trash bin. Not all librarians are good, though . . .<BR/><BR/>Anyway, we love books here. Karen has thousands. She needs an entire room just for the books. <BR/><BR/>--PPenelopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765737667782111636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-17134670819850712902007-08-07T20:07:00.000-06:002007-08-07T20:07:00.000-06:00Terrie Farley Moran - Yes, that is a danger. Too m...Terrie Farley Moran - Yes, that is a danger. Too many have been lost forever.<BR/><BR/>Hey Anonymous - I know you had to get it away from him. That's why the book is so awful and dangerous and why it must be kept around. It has to be taken apart and analyzed so we don't all become easy prey.<BR/> <BR/>Soft in my middle-age? Could happen!Leah J. Utashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08497599109798015888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-41928328507580854202007-08-07T15:42:00.000-06:002007-08-07T15:42:00.000-06:00Jeez, Leah, You know I wasn't REALLY going to burn...Jeez, Leah, You know I wasn't REALLY going to burn that damned book!! I just wanted to get it away from my extremely suggestible significant other!! Although, if I ever met a book that deserved burning, that was the one!! <BR/>I admire your iron control in not marching right up to that woman and begging her for those books - you must be getting soft in your middle age :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-59653631063281741182007-08-06T10:09:00.000-06:002007-08-06T10:09:00.000-06:00Interesting thread, Leah.Crabby, I think all we bo...Interesting thread, Leah.<BR/><BR/>Crabby, I think all we book people can be a bit snobbish about the tv people, but the difference is that if you shut off the tv in mid program or choose not to watch it at all, that show is still on the air and still available to everyone who wants to see it. <BR/><BR/>If you burn a book, that book is gone for ever and as Leah reminds us, there have been book burnings where all the copies of specific titles are destroyed. That is a danger to society<BR/><BR/>TerrieTerrie Farley Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980849018232866773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-61449313075105977422007-08-06T09:03:00.000-06:002007-08-06T09:03:00.000-06:00It's interesting though--I say all the time "I don...It's interesting though--I say all the time "I don't watch much TV." And I don't say it sheepishly.<BR/><BR/>Yet there are thoughtful, educational, well-crafted television programs, and there are terrible junky books. I realize I have a total double standard about forms of entertainment and education! Because I would have felt just as huffy as you did about the woman who dismissed reading as a waste of time.<BR/><BR/>Interesting post!Crabby McSlackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12108791388350253344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-10235986335118032232007-08-06T06:50:00.000-06:002007-08-06T06:50:00.000-06:00Rebecca, most of my paperbacks ( it's okay to say ...Rebecca, most of my paperbacks ( it's okay to say that here) don't look like they've been read either.<BR/>I've seen people open a book in the middle and bend it back cracking the spine so it would be easier to hold and read. It hurt me.Leah J. Utashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08497599109798015888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-52586103041701550762007-08-05T23:54:00.000-06:002007-08-05T23:54:00.000-06:00Hear! Hear! I cannot understand people that don't ...Hear! Hear! I cannot understand people that don't read. They probably vote exactly the way their parents did, if at all, and have never tried food outside of their culture. How can you be broadminded about anything if you don't read?<BR/><BR/>Bookmarks are made for a purpose, you can't even tell most of my paperbacks (I know dirty words) have been read 5-6 times. (I do own hardbacks too, it's just they are harder to read in bed.)<BR/><BR/>As for plants dying....that's why I don't keep any in the house anymore, I do plant outside and I remember to water those.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-13849350911079759872007-08-05T13:43:00.000-06:002007-08-05T13:43:00.000-06:00I knew I could count on you, Dawn.Spreadeagled boo...I knew I could count on you, Dawn.<BR/>Spreadeagled books hurt me, too.<BR/><BR/>Mike feels the pain of the neglected plants. Such sights bother him a great deal.<BR/><BR/>Hello Bunnygirl- there are plenty of ways to dispose of books so that others can enjoy them. You can even leave them at the local recycling depot.Leah J. Utashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08497599109798015888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-211166847409597392007-08-05T13:22:00.000-06:002007-08-05T13:22:00.000-06:00That's a needlessly negative attitude toward books...That's a needlessly negative attitude toward books you encountered. Surely there's a nursing home, library or charity she could donate them to.<BR/><BR/>But she doesn't read, so she's probably not well-informed, so how would she know?<BR/><BR/>Beats the heck out of me why anyone would intentionally live in ignorance.Ann (bunnygirl)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04938134750150653386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892083748555571767.post-63353147979966584442007-08-05T12:25:00.000-06:002007-08-05T12:25:00.000-06:00Good for you, Leah. I'll join your "save the book...Good for you, Leah. I'll join your "save the book" campaign. I get quite upset when I see people lay books down spreadeagled so that the spines will eventually break.<BR/><BR/>Another thing that upsets me is when I walk into the big stores that sell plants as a sideline and I find some wretched plant dying of lack of water.Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04991009842667783101noreply@blogger.com