The Weeding Report

This weekend was the first garage sale of the season at my mom's. She tries to have three before the fall weather hits. I've made a good pass at weeding my books and feel fairly comfortable with what I have decided to give up. Among them: Covert Bailey's Fit or Fat Woman, McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss (too extreme), Energy Up!: Shed Pounds, etc. There's only so much information you can read in that area. I think I get it now. Not just getting rid of some diet books, also thinning out some of my French literature from the decadent period (late 1800s), Barbey d'Auervilly, Huysmans, a book on Gilles de Rais by Bataille. Gilles de Rais is just an awful figure in French history, I won't say more here, see the Amazon review of the book. My reasons for buying these in the first place were mostly out of titillation (the scholarly version...), but now I think "why do I want this stuff in my life?" The Gilles de Rais stuff is just bad juju. And for the other stuff, if I want to get back into reading French, there is better stuff to be had, like Proust or Balzac.

This is not a comprehensive list of what's going, but it covers a couple of main areas that jumped out at me.