Important Announcement!!

This is going to come as a shock to most of you (if not all), but, after an extreme amount of self-reflection and consideration, I have decided to sell off the majority of my book collection.

I have over 500 books in my possession. That's crazy. I have absolutely no intention on reading the vast majority of them again. So, I will probably keep about 50, but the rest are going to go. I talked to Chris about it and he thinks I should get rid of them, too. See, it's going to be at least a decade before we are going to be in any kind of situation to actually house 500 books and it's not fair to ask Mom and David to keep hanging on to my crap for all that time. So, the books are going to be sold. What can't be sold is going to be given to either a library or a Salvation Army type store.

Of course, family and friends get first pick. :-) In fact, if someone gave me like...$100 or $150 I would let you take every last book. Woo! Eh, Laura B...is it tempting? No? Not really? :-P

I have like 250-300 romance novels, 100 sci-fi/fantasy novels, and other random ones that people can pick though. If there is something I have that you really, really want just ask me or something.

Im going to keep:

• All my Julie Garwoods
• All my Julia Quinn
• All my Mercedes Lackey
• The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Kushiel's Series by Jaqueline Carey
• The first 6 books from the Cynster Series by Stephanie Lauren
• All my books about Japanese (culture, history, religion, language, etc)
• Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern (first 3) and Dragonsinger trilogy
• Harry Potter Hard Back (paperbacks are up for grabs)
• Maybe some of Johanna Lindsey's but I haven't decided

Seriously, I think the rest are up for grabs. I do reserve the right to keep any of my books, even if I haven't listed them. I can't remember what I have. Please don't make me feel bad if I'm giving away or selling a book that you gave me. It's just how it's got to be. If I have somehow acquired a book that belongs to you, you should grab it back and I apologize.

Anyways, I'm not going to really worry about it until we move back home in July, but it's something for people to keep in mind. I just wanted to let everyone know now because I made the decision today! By announcing it, it makes it more cemented in my mind.

So thats that. It's a very hard thing for me to do, but I think it will be a good step for me to let go of these books. I no longer need them. :-)