I'm a hoarder

We moved back here behind the barn five and a half years ago.  I threw away a few books, but kept most:  some I thought I would eventually read, and some I loved the first time I read them.  Looking at the bookcase in the bedroom, I realized that I haven't read, or re-read, any of the books I moved.  And I'm getting ready to move them back to the house?  

That's silly, I muttered to myself.  I'll just keep the ones I have a real attachment for.  

But as I went through them, half of those books tugged at my heart!  

Here are some I am definitely keeping:  a book about old Kansas City by a local author who is also a Facebook friend; a Bible Story book like the one I read as a child; a couple of books about Johnny Cash and one about Hank Williams; all my Pioneer Woman books because they are personally autographed to me, by name; a little self-published book, I think, about the history of the town of Wellington; an old Uncle Wiggly Book I used to read to my oldest grandson; and some shape-note hymnbooks from my childhood.   

Here are some I wanted to keep, but decided to stop hoarding.  There are three Bibles here, and it's hard for me to throw away a Bible.  That one in the foreground, "Horses Never Lie", turned my last horse into my best buddy, but I won't have any more horses and it's stupid to keep it.  There's a box set of the Little House On the Prairie books I'm attached to but won't read again.  A couple of nice coffee-table books by Life Magazine, but we don't have a coffee table and I've never done more with them than flip through to glance at the quite interesting pictures.  I've read Jimmy Carter's book, "An Hour Before Daylight", twice and love it, but I'm probably done with it.  

These books are all leaning because of the ones I removed.  A lot of these I picked up cheap at garage sales thinking I'd read them.  There are a couple of Sue Grafton books there, and I see yet another Bible.  Since I started reading E-books, I seem not to have a desire to read actual books.  

Thrift stores accept books, and that's probably where I'll take these.  Now that I've started de-cluttering books, I wonder what I'll work on next?

*added later*  I posted this link on Facebook, and one friend asked for the Little House set and "Horses Never Lie".