My inner rebellious teenage gothygirl is very proud of me.

[truepenny]

I am actually consigning Eleanor Prosser and David Cressy to the used bookstore.

Despite the fact that I cited them in my dissertation.

I'm never going to read them again (or even finish reading, in the case of Cressy). I don't want them. But there's a part of my brain that says, You can't get rid of those. They're schoolbooks. I have the same problem with books I read for the M.A. exam, but with dissertation books, it's worse.

This is, and I realize it, a microcosmic rebellion, but my inner gothygirl is sanguine. She says you gotta start somewhere.

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[janni.livejournal.com]

Hey, I still haven't gotten up to ditching some of my undergraduate science texts.

[libskrat]

I still have an anthology of Latin American literature from high school. (Okay, it was because I was taking an evening class at the local uni, but still.)

Someday I'll finish cleaning out my grad school shelves. Someday.

[heresluck]

As someone who is living with you and all your books, I say: good job!

(...and: thank goodness.)

*g*