I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it as been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories