See, I am not a fool with thousands of books I will never read! Instead, I am a practitioner of the ancient Japanese art of Tsundoku!
Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Note to myself:
“Purchasing a book alone does not automatically impart the knowledge it contains”.
I am the master of Tsundoku.
I was at a lecture by Joseph Pierce. He commented on purchasing and not reading books. To someone who asked if he had read a certain book, he would reply, “Read it! I own it!
I have 5 books on mt nightstand in various stages of completion. Some have been there for years.
Add me in.
I recently had to displace all the books in my study for some home renovation to discover that I had bought at least three books twice. The Story of a Soul, Ralph Martin’s book on the Fulfillment of all Desire and Scott Hahn’s book Reasons to Believe. There’s a Catholic book store right outside of the small Chapel where I attend Mass from time to time. I never leave that bookstore without having at least two new books. Some twice obviously.
Of those three, the only one that I haven’t read is Ralph Martin’s book which is somewhat hard to get through. There’s a lot of other ones in my library I still haven’t read.
If only my stacks of books were aesthetically pleasing! They have a tendency to cascade around here.
I wonder if there’s a similar word for collecting exercise equipment I’ll never use?
I have every intention of reading all these books I’ve collected … Provided God grants me time enough 🙂
Tsundoku.
So *that’s* the word my wife is muttering under her breath when she sees my stacks of books 🤔
Maybe because books are the weapons and armor of the intellect, they really ought to be close at hand instead of locked in an armoury.
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