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
A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
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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