I haven't read that biography and I'm not sure I'd enjoy it actually, but I did have that cookbook one before we moved house. When we were moving house last time, DH went ape when I started packing boxes and boxes of books (yet again), so I finally gave in and gave them all away....to a good home though....I would never sell my books, but I have no problem with giving them to some one who loves to read as much as I do.

I'd been collecting books.... whose authors I liked...for quite some time, and in each case I had all, or most, of their books. It made me sad to just get rid of them, but it was getting more and more expensive for us to move all the time, and as we'd been moving states regularly.

NO! No-one was after us . We sold our house some years ago and had been moving around Oz, getting work wherever we could, just so we could see our country while we were still able to do so. Something we've never regretted doing, but we're "home" now, and I just might start my collection all over again. My favourite haunts when I'm in the book collection mood are second hand book stores and garage sales.

I think the only plus to having cognotive problems that I've noticed so far is that I can read a book and put it away, and then read it all over again in a year or two, and never remember what happened in the story!

You don't get many plusses with this disease, so I'm pleased to have found one I'm happy with.