Comment by Judith on August 17, 2008 at 11:40am

Oh my, but I know just what you are talking about. When we were living our starving-artist years, we had to sell treasured books (and blood and plasma!). And it made me completely neurotic about hanging onto my library. But I have found over the years that it is much easier if I give them to friends who will share my joy in them!

Comment by Nina on November 19, 2008 at 8:42pm

Andreina - Wow.... I hear you. I have a love-hate relationship with Architecture. It's like a long marriage, with its ups and downs, and I've been struggling with walking away to pursue other loves, but I just can't seem to make the break. Just when I've had enough, it lures me back. Nothing rocks my world like being on a construction site, preferably when steel is going up... And then I resent it, for taking time away from my family, my writing, my sleep... (always so many ideas, but there's that pesky paycheck to worry about.)

It's very nice to meet you. You and Manny do a wonderful thing with this website, keep up the great work!

Comment by lev on March 15, 2009 at 12:27pm

books a a hard master... i have done just that. i have a large collection of architecture books in my stained glass studio... some of them i hold on to for just one concept or a few photos that will one day be useful... but i have moved my glass studio 7 times in the last 10 years... some of those studios never saw those books unpacked, why is it so hard to get rid of them. i gave a huge old coffee table book on charles renee mackintosh and the Glasgow school of art. i do not know how many times i have gone to the shelve to look for it and it wasn't there.... books are a very fickle master.... i totally understand

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