Hypothetical Question : Trapped and Freezing

[Renkon Root]

Okay, you live in an area that snows.

One winter you get snowed in with your only source of heat being the fireplace (or wood-burning stove).

You've already run out of every other flammable object in your house, you MUST resort to burning some of your books to survive!

What do you burn first?

 

[xxEverBluexx]

I've been locked inside that house, all the while You hold key
And I've been dying to get out, though that might be the death of me

How am I supposed to remember the books I don't like? xd I only keep in mind the ones I like. Seriously though? There's hundreds of books around my house. I'd burn the copies laying around first, and then all the books on that aren't on a shelf in my room because most of those I don't like or am not planning on reading. I'd just sort them out as I tossed them in the flames. :3

And all I'm asking is for You to do what You can with me
But I can't ask You to give what You already gave

 

[Esiris]

I inherited a bunch of books- so I don't have a personal stake in a lot of them.
I'd go fiction then non-fiction though.  

[Renkon Root]

I would probably burn my cookbooks first because I have never used them, ever. Then that one book that's holding up the short leg of my coffee table, I don't even know what it is anymore. Then all my New Age stuff. The one or two gothic romances I have from my goth-phase (minus Anne Bishop's stuff, I know they're bad but I just love them to much), then the last 3 Harry Potter books, after Sirius dies there's really no point anymore. Then I'd start to worm on my manga and if the storm still hasn't lifted by then, I will happily die surrounded by all my Tolkien, sci-fi from the 70s and 80s, Orczy, Bishop, arts & crafts guides and various reference and research materials.

I just can't bring myself to burn them.

 

[ncsweet]

Esiris

I inherited a bunch of books- so I don't have a personal stake in a lot of them.
I'd go fiction then non-fiction though.

This ^^ I could probably heat several houses and still not have to burn any of my personal library. Even then, when I used to have my wellness center, I had a lending library, so people would donate books, and I have a ton of random wellness/new age crap, that would keep me toasty for a while if necessary.  

[Esiris]

Renkon Root

I would probably burn my cookbooks first because I have never used them, ever.

I didn't even think of those!  

[Renkon Root]

Esiris

Renkon Root

I would probably burn my cookbooks first because I have never used them, ever.

I didn't even think of those!

My mother and sister keep giving them to me every Channukah. I've got at least one cook book for every ethnic food under the sun. As well as books for soup and nothing but soup, for potato and nothing but potato, gluten free, soy free, vegetarian, atkins diet, chicken only... the list goes on!

I think the only cookbooks I don't have are ones for the Native American tribes of Canada and Alaska.

 

[Esiris]

Renkon Root

Esiris

Renkon Root

I would probably burn my cookbooks first because I have never used them, ever.

I didn't even think of those!

My mother and sister keep giving them to me every Channukah. I've got at least one cook book for every ethnic food under the sun. As well as books for soup and nothing but soup, for potato and nothing but potato, gluten free, soy free, vegetarian, atkins diet, chicken only... the list goes on!

I think the only cookbooks I don't have are ones for the Native American tribes of Canada and Alaska.

That's a lot of cookbooks!
Do you have a favorite?