i’d like to ask for some advice please. i was already set on giving away this one book to one of those take a book, leave a book shelves, when i opened it and realized it was a birthday gift from my parents, with a note on the front page. i decided i still wanted to give it away, but my mom made me doubt my decision. should i follow through, or should i keep it instead? i don’t read it anymore and have already read it more than twice over. it’s a not very well known children’s book that i think is just so full of fun and whimsy, and i would like to share it with others too.
I am a very sentimetal person but try not to hoard things. Books are something very special to me, so if I had a book with a message from one or both of my parents, I would keep it and cherish it.
I could also be biased because I am extremely close with my parents, and my father is currently losing his battle with cancer. So the idea of having a message from him in a book would make me smile every time I saw it on my shelf.