Have you any room?

Have you any room in your heart or your house?
Helen Garner's book, The Spare Room, is a portrayal of life at the end, what we will do to hang on and what we do to those around us.
I liked the writing.

Always leave 'em laughing department:-

I was discussing the problem of books recently with someone who, manifestly, has too many.
I recounted the famous solution advanced by the detective Pepe Carvalho, see Murder in the Central Committee, by Manuel Vazquez Montalban. He burns books to keep himself warm and cheerful through the Barcelona winters.

Hmm... The bibliophile pondered;
Maybe what I need is a book burning stove.