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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Last night I read Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending . Yes, the night before it went up against Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil Al...
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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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Anthony Trollope's 200th birthday takes place on April 24, and Karen at Books and Chocolate is hosting an Anthony Trollope Bicenntenni...
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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