Putting Old Books To Pasture

This is probably going to scandalize many of you (we all do love books here) but I am taking 2014 to read through the books I once called beloved.

I am reading them.

And if they are not up to snuff, I am patting them gently on the cover as I set them in the donation pile.

Already, more books have fallen to the reaper than have survived. (Ace, the Very Important Pig did not make it, but Babe, the Gallant Pig stands strong).

Even as I set them aside, I do still see in them the spark that had me love them, and it has been oddly more sweet than bitter to revisit them. I’ve changed, but I will always remember them fondly.

Has anyone else ever gone through and done this or something similar?

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