The Sunday Salon In Addition To Moving Madness... Or What To Create Alongside All Those Books!

Welcome to The Dominicus Salon! And The Dominicus Post (which is hosted past times Kim at The Caffeinated Book Reviewer) It's been a while... So, why has it been a while? The unproblematic respond that comes to take away heed is that I'm retiring from my solar daytime job... this is the unproblematic answer. The non hence unproblematic respond is I'm retiring from my solar daytime job, moving 817 miles away in addition to trying to pack all my worldly possessions! This unproblematic act of retiring in addition to moving has created verbalise havoc in addition to chaos inwards what was a somewhat "normal" life.

Along amongst all the normal things I am packing, (dishes, glassware, cookware, clothing, pottery...), I convey an amazing divulge of books. Paperbacks, hardcovers, galleys, comic books... I dear books... I dear REAL books... But what am I going to do? Too many books. Really, I sympathise I'm a combat obsessive almost books. 

I convey e'er donated to the local library. One of my majority gild members moved in addition to donated a bookcase where nosotros work, hence I donate books to our operate library. I give books away to people I know volition bask a item majority too... but it's difficult sometimes to permit go... What almost those books on the TBR pile that you merely know you'll read "one of those days"... How almost similar a shot that I'm retiring, I tin dismiss read ALL of those books someday?! Enough! I demand to larn to permit become in addition to now! So, I bought a book. What?! You bought a majority to assistance you acquire rid of books?! Sounds similar I'm even hence feeding that obsession, doesn't it? But no, this majority is unlike in addition to genuinely helped me permit go...

The life-changing manga of tidying up, a magical story, past times Marie Kondo... Yes, a manga of that
pop majority that taught everyone how to tidy upwards their lives. I genuinely bought the master cute piddling majority in addition to opened it up, but that was almost it. I similar Manga in addition to when I went to come across if at that topographic point was whatsoever novel Manga at my local bookstore, I saw Marie Kondo's Manga version of "Tidying Up" sitting on the shelf. And it was cute... in addition to I bought it.

So, similar a shot that I convey THAT book, where create I begin... In iii tardily steps, here's the gist of what Marie Kondo tells you to do...

1. Take all your books, ALL of them, in addition to pose them on the floor. 

2.  Standing inwards forepart of ALL your books, wake them up! Yes, clap your hands in addition to wake those books up! 

3. Pick upwards each majority in addition to concord it close... does it spark joy?! If it sparks joy, conk on it!

I did merely that... I pulled all my books from all the bookshelves in addition to layed them on the sofa. I picked each 1 upwards in addition to held it close. And I genuinely felt joy amongst merely about in addition to nil amongst others. Marie Kondo points out that you may convey missed the timing on merely about books... those books that you bought at the fourth dimension to read that you genuinely aren't interested inwards reading whatsoever more. Those books are the ones it's fourth dimension to permit become of. So, I did. They all went into a donate pile in addition to I felt ameliorate for it. Of course, I even hence convey a lot of books, but I've helped weed downward my pile quite a bit. I also felt skillful letting those books go. In a means they were a burden because I felt "obligated" to read them because I bought them, fifty-fifty though I may non locomote interested inwards reading them anymore. Don't nosotros convey TBR books that convey been collecting dust waiting for us to read them?!

I even hence demand to acquire into our storage unit of measurement in addition to become through books. It's going to warm upwards a combat side past times side calendar week hence I mightiness locomote able to tackle that. Otherwise,  I may locomote moving to a greater extent than books than I demand to.

What create you mean value almost Books sparking joy? Have you ever gone through your books to come across if they even hence spark joy?

In a nutshell, that's what I've been doing... How almost you?! What novel bookish things convey you been doing in addition to what novel books convey you constitute that moved you? (okay, bad joke, but seriously, I'd dear to hear almost the peachy books yous convey been reading!) I'm even hence reading, although non equally voraciously equally usual, in addition to I'm planning to acquire dorsum to to a greater extent than reading subsequently "the move". I'm also even hence blogging in addition to volition locomote dorsum to "normal" subsequently "the move"...

Until then... Happy Reading... Suzanne