"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Monday, August 07, 2006
Why I Can't Stop Starting Books
The title of Joe Queenan's piece in the New York Times Book Review says it all. He says he is simultaneously reading about 25 books. Steve and I both feel the same way.
I keep buying books. I get them on sale at the bookstore, I get them at the thrift store, and I order them from my favourite little bookshop. They're all waiting for me patiently to pick them off the shelf and read them. I never ever have to look for a book to read. (I don't always read them one at a time though!)
I just checked. Depending on whether two versions of an ancient english hawking manual count as two or one and whether the four volumes of an (also ancient) Chinese novel count as one or four I am reading 16, 17, or 20.
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I keep buying books. I get them on sale at the bookstore, I get them at the thrift store, and I order them from my favourite little bookshop. They're all waiting for me patiently to pick them off the shelf and read them. I never ever have to look for a book to read. (I don't always read them one at a time though!)
I just checked. Depending on whether two versions of an ancient english hawking manual count as two or one and whether the four volumes of an (also ancient) Chinese novel count as one or four I am reading 16, 17, or 20.
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