Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "Lady of the Library" channel.

Hi, Cinzia! I appreciate your realism and optimism. Yes, we are in a strange, uncertain time and for many people it's difficult to make plans for the future or plans have had to be changed but we can be realistic but not despairing. One of the best sayings I've ever heard is "We do today what we can do today". Another is "Do the good you are capable of doing".
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Wonderful comments and insights, Cinzia! What you said here will really help people. I'm not exactly having a no-buy year but I'm having a no-acquire six months. I'm determined to reduce the number of unread books that I have---and this is just after finding yet another Little Free Library near me. My weakness is books---so many now that their presence causes stress rather than gives pleasure---and my intention is that for six months no new books will come into my space. If any books cross the threshold they will be outbound rather than incoming! I told a good friend about this and I KNOW she's going to hold me accountable!
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Very interesting mix of authors! Many of these are new to me here in the U.S.---I'm a big fan of Barbara Pym. Her book "A Glass of Blessings" is actually at my bedside right now. I know it will be a good read. There are so many excellent writers and so many excellent books out there that were not written in English. You've gotten me interested in authors whose work is now accessible to me through translation.---Too there are so many good books that were written and published decades ago, whose authors may have since passed, but are still good books to read. I'd like to encourage people to look into older books that may be unfamiliar to them to and to discover the writers that maybe their grandparents or great-grandparents read fifty or sixty years ago.
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@faeriesmak That's a great plan. I may need to just sit down with my books and go through them one by one and really consider whether I'm ever going to read them, if I really want to read them and do I truly want whatever a particular book could bring into my life. If the answer is "No" those books can be donated and go to someone for whom they're better suited. I think that sometimes we can simply be a bridge by which a book gets to the right reader.
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