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Don Vincente, a fictional Spanish monk who was suspected of stealing books from his monastery, and later murdered nine people so he could steal their books. Leisel Meminger, the protagonist in The Book Thief, is a nine-year-old who steals a grave digger's handbook, beginning her obsession with books. [12]
The psychology of collecting is an area of study that seeks to understand the motivating factors explaining why people devote time, money, and energy making and maintaining collections. There exist a variety of theories for why collecting behavior occurs, including consumerism, materialism, neurobiology and psychoanalytic theory.
The classic bibliophile loves to read, admire and collect books, [A] often amassing a large and specialized collection. Bibliophiles usually possess books they love or that hold special value, as well as old editions with unusual bindings, autographed, or illustrated copies.
A hoarding disorder is a recognized mental health condition in which a person has difficulty discarding or parting with possessions. Regardless of the value of the items, it causes the person ...
What started out as a genuine desire to hold on to memories slowly turned into an obsession.
Three years later, the house they fell in love with has become their prison. A next-door neighbor, described by relatives as a mentally ill hoarder, has turned some six acres of green space into ...
A major focus of Dream Hoarders is to argue that the upper middle class is best positioned to make the political changes needed to help all members of society, especially the bottom 80%. Reeves points out that over half of the wealth of Americans is held in the hands of the top 20%, and the largest share of active voters, and donors to ...
Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and archivist, especially known for hoarding [1] [2] and archiving hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012, [2] [3] at which ...