My name is Rosa and I am addicted to children's books

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RosaLuxMundi · 27/11/2007 11:15

Oh dear, we have just had to get some more shelves and I have been sorting out all the tottering piles of books that have been lurking in every corner of the house.
It appears that as well as a couple of thousand adult books, we now own at least 1,000 children's books. Most of them I have acquired secondhand, and not always for the benefit of a particular child but because I want them myself.
DH is a bit now that he can see the extent of my habit! The new shelves are full, and I don't think I can stop acquiring new books. Is there therapy I can have?

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Bink · 27/11/2007 17:03

Funnily enough I was just wondering about the LuxMundi Circulating Library (Like-Mindedly Obsessive Correspondents Only ).

Is your collection focussed on certain things? Do you, say, have every Guinness Book of Records from 195x onwards? Or are they all Horse'n'Pony books?

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RosaLuxMundi · 27/11/2007 14:42

Actually I have just done another load of tidying. There was a whole bookcase I clean forgot about . There are at least 4,000 books in this house, maybe 1,500 are children's books. Maybe I should open a library.

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 27/11/2007 11:18

Well, so much of it is just really really good, isn't it? Get rid of the crap ones and if anyone comments tell them children's literature is the authentic literary form of the twenty-first century.

EmsMum · 27/11/2007 11:18

Blimey, I thought I was bad. Was thinking that someone should start Books For Children Anonymous or something.

Marina · 27/11/2007 11:16

There is Cognitive Bookoffloading Therapy, whereby you learn that if you buy a book, another has to go to the charity shop
Or so I am told

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