April 13, 2010
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Reading material
While I do appreciate the occasional luxury item from Lush, I consider myself to be unmaterialistic on the whole. I don't care for bags, cars, gadgets, Starbucks beverages, etc. My soft spot is for old books, which makes me a big fan of second hand book stores. Old books to me are like abandoned puppies. I see them in the window and get all emotional over how lonely it must be to be yellowing (the book equivalent of balding) and to smell like brittle glue. New books just don't do it for me. They're too shiny and untouchable and sterile.
Why yes that is a first-edition, French-version Waiting for Godot printed in France. Doesn't it just make you want to contemplate your lack of meaningful existence? I wasn't going to buy the Tom Sawyer because it wasn't hardcover or first edition but in the end I thought it might be a good read for Trumon (so far he's made no sign that he's ever going to pick it up).
I spend most of my time in the children's section. I am currently oogling a Little House on the Prarie set, an old edition of Little Women, as well as several Madeline and Calvin and Hobbes titles. What I really want though, is the complete and illustrated hardcover edition of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and french Asterix comics, and after that I'll consider starting a Dr. Seuss collection.
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jealous.
i have only paperback re-issued copies of my favourite novels. their covers are printed with posthumous awards of minimal significance and the beginning pages rudely inserted with forewords and introductions of modern writers.
try getting Trumon to read "Number the Stars". i vividly remember that part where she clutches onto her star of david necklace so tightly that it left an imprint on her palm as the nazis searched their home.
Books!!! *O* Booooooooks....... gosh, 80% of my books are packed away in storage right now. I miss them so much ;A; (then again, I've managed to fill the bookshelves in my apartment right now after moving in for a year. Goddammit. I have no more space for books.) Hm, I've never read Madeline stuff.
And.
OMG. DR. SEUSS. YOU MUST!! DO YOU WANT GREEN EGGS AND HAMMM? >:] I had a whole hardcover collection of his stuff, and my mom made me give it to my cousin when I got older, and 5yr olds + pens = books turn into sketchbooks. ;_; I was heartbroken.
GODOT <3
Haha. Dr. Seuss is the best.
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