A month back, in addition to the 99% of academic books and textbooks and assignments gone, I also threw out (meaning recycled/donated) 50% of my comics and novels from my high school days.
Why?
sigh*
I just have to.
Not enough space, it’s time, time to move on, time to let go. Cliche hey, but that’s because they are true.
Anyways, I threw away all my Ladybird Key Words Reading Scheme or Peter and Jane as I used to call them when I was a kid.
My Chicken Soup series donated to The Book Attic at Central.
Some comics are gone.
Chinese and English novels I know I won’t read again made up the majorities of the pile on the table.
I don’t think I had any non-fiction in the pile as I didn’t get into the genre until university.
Childhood Books that remain on my bookshelves are:
The Berenstain Bears – Big Chapter Books, The Bear Scouts – A collection I am very proud of, didn’t stop collecting until around the 9th grade. I think I am just a few books short of the complete collection. A collection that traced back to the 4th grade.
Anything earlier than that belongs to a Japanese translated into Chinese comic called <足球小將>, Captain Tsubasa. A collection I am also very proud of and didn’t stop collecting until shortly after university. Sadly, it’s incomplete.
Back to the 50%. They are gone now and made way for books I’ve collected and read from university.
And if I stack the 50% one by one, they would take up 1 pile floor to ceiling ~9 feet high. Doesn’t take up much space eh.
Victor Yeung 