“He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually...
This is the cover I wanted to run with. Ah well.
Inside publishing jokes are just the best.
Let’s all take a moment.
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Adorable.
“Sections in the bookstore
- Books You Haven’t Read
- Books You Needn’t Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered
- Books Ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read
- Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
— from If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Why is this post truncated? ;_; Oh well, go to the source for the rest of the list! This post actually inspired me to...
- Books You Haven’t Read - Books You Needn’t Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading - Books Read Even Before...
And then my life would be perfect.
(One of my all-time favorite books.)
Story of my library.