Well not exactly everything but these Closeout merchants are always economical with the truth. What I mean is I am having one of my periodical book dispersals. I have been so caught up in Simon Serrailler and the Case of the  ..well, you wait and see that I lost the use of my limbs so I decided to clear out the little room next door. This little room started off in our lives here as the Younger Daughter`s bedroom. When she moved down the corridor it turned into my study only I don`t really use a study so it became another book room with some huge cupboards in which I keep stationary and pens and spare printer cartridges and the Sylvanian Families House complete with animals and furniture. You know the sort of cupboard I mean. The bookshelves house my collection of 600 plus Ladybird Books, all the books I have used for my MA in Theology - shelf after shelf, abandoned once a module has been completed. So that`s done with Genesis then. St Paul ? Been there, done him. I`m now onto the Dissertation part so there`s a large collection of obscure books on  medieval Cistercian monasticism. Otherwise, the shelves are an odd random mixture - one whole bookcase just became a dumping ground for stuff that didn`t fit in anywhere else. I keep the foreign editions of my own books in the Big Cupboards too.

So, I bought 20 of those extremely strong and useful hessian bags from Tesco and off I went.

I dispose of my unwanted books in a number of ways.

1. I sell the best on amazon. Textbooks and academic books cost a fortune so it is good to get back something and they sell very fast.

2. Oxfam Bookshop. Hospice Bookshop.

3. The shelves in my doctors' surgery. They sell hardbacks for £1, paperbacks for 50p and I often pick up a bargain.Money goes to buying equipment for the surgery which the poor doctors on their annual pittance, can`t afford.

4. The Village Hall bookstall at the monthly Sale and Coffee Morning. They only like paperbacks, crime, romance and popular books. Cheap as chips.

5. NEW BOOKS. These go to the library. Gloucestershire Library Service is pretty good and hasn`t slung out all the books to make way for Seaside Arcade Games and other frolics, so I like to give them all my brand new books. They`re jolly glad of them and they snatch at any of my own books translated into foreign languages like Polish. The Poles borrow a lot of books apparently. Good.

The piles get sorted into the hessian bags and lugged downstairs. Oh look at all that lovely empty shelf space !

I keep meaning to go through the hundreds of Ladybirds for duplicates and sling them out, or trade them but every time I start there arrives a Person from Porlock who seems hell bent on ensuring that I never get this particular task done.

But I have pruned the paperbacks ruthlessly, the secateurs have been through the M.A. stuff and snipped away a bit and Gloucestershire Libraries are going to be very pleased when they get the big pile of Simon Serraillers in  French, German, American, Polish, Dutch and a language I do not recognise. Serbo-Croat ? Urdu ?

It`s just the Sylvanian Families House Complete with Animals and Furniture I seem to be stuck with.