Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
--Virginia Woolf
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This morning I took our senior cat Charlie to the vet for his monthly arthritis shot. L. ordered an induction range (on sale!) for our retir...
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As I said on New Year's Day, one of my projects for the year is to keep track of all the reading done by the characters in the fiction t...
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Books Read in 2022 (In backwards order) The Snow Hare. Paul Lichtarowicz “He’s Very Well Read.” Catherine Lacey A Psalm for the Wild-Built....
Ahhh...She gets it right every time. Loved yesterday's quote too.
ReplyDelete(today's word verification is "homish"--how apt!)
I like that. I love the congregation of diverse books you find rubbing spines together in used bookstores. And from there, onto my own shelves...
ReplyDeleteLOVE it. And so the used books I buy from street vendors, those are practically feral.
ReplyDeleteMy new library is run by people whose first language isn't English, so it's positively feral!
ReplyDeleteThey're not homeless once I get my hands on them. That is the root of my entire tbr problem!
ReplyDeletePerfect. I like to adopt homeless books, but they often just pass through, so they are truly 'wild' books, roaming books. :)
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