Some days ago, a neighbor invited me over because she was donating books that belonged to her husband, who died from covid during the pandemic. There were a lot of books, and even by choosing only the ones which caught my attention, I was able to get over 100 different books.
It was the first donation I have ever received and I got really happy about it. I am already halfway through The Shining, which was in the collection. So it got me thinking about donation itself.
What about your experiences with it? And I am asking about donation of things, not money.
My then girlfriend was spending a summer in Portland. Just before she left, she handed me a box of about twenty hardback novels all by the same author, one Sir Terry Pratchett.
A couple days after she’d flown out, I grabbed a random book from the pile and began reading. By the time she returned, I’d read the entire box.
So I married her. 😁
They are that good, aren’t they!
The only books I have ever liked reading over and over and over again ♾️, too.
And congratulations on the marriage!
Eighteen years and about twenty-seven hours just now!
Wonderful!
I have looked it up here, those novels look awesome. I will try to get some of them for sure. I didn’t know about Discworld, but to start a series about a planet in a turtle’s back, Pratchett must have great stories to tell. XD
I highly recommend them. There’s a lot of them, but unlike many other long-running series, you can pretty much read the Discworld books in any order. It helps to read them in rough publishing order, but it isn’t required
I love them so much.
If you like fantasy (witches, wizards, dwarfs, trolls, etc etc etc), then add in wit and satirical humor, also clever parody of people, places, past and present events of things from our actual world, all cleverly woven together, then you’re in for a fantastic time. It also, sometimes can get a little dark (a murder to solve, etc, but nothing graphic), in the best of ways.