The ramblings below are from the cleverly written blog of my son-in-law. Great Scott! he writes gooderer than me does. And he shares my exact sentiments regarding book purchasing.
I have a particular fondness for Airmont Classic's, a mass market cheaply made paperback from back in the day. And there are the hard covers - maybe even leather bound- Readers Digest Worlds Best Reading series (not to be mistaken for the Readers Digest Condensed series) (Although I love condensed even in soups) And people can't even get them for me as presents as I already have most of the serieses.
It is definitely the hunt that I love. Finding a used bookstore and scanning the shelves until the book that wants to come to my house is spotted.Come to momma.
"Speaking of a thousand things: As of last week, it grieves me to say, our book collection has finally broken a thousand. The tally as of this writing is one thousand and three. Some are hers, some are mine, some are ours. Regarding the mine-and-ours: Don’t ask me how many of them I’ve read or will read or will even ever crack open and flip through in search of something, I beg you. Don’t ask me how well I remember or understand the ones I have read. Just don’t go there. The answers will reflect poorly on all involved. The shame of the high books-bought-to-books-read ratio is of course comfortingly widespread among us of the book-nerd persuasion. Let’s just round down and say I haven’t read any of them. I don’t want to read them. I just want them around. I require them in my home. And I must have more."
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