While walking through the Wilkinson Center today on my way to print up some stuff, I caught sight of tables and tables of books in the Garden Court. My wallet is thin as it is, but I couldn’t help myself. And I’m glad I did: for $12, I got John Maxwell Hamilton’s Casanova Was a Book Lover, Ronald B. Shwartz’s For the Love of Books, and a nice hardcover edition of Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. ‘Tis a good day. :) I really like reading about books, perhaps more than any other subject. It’s kind of like reading about one’s friends and loved ones, in a way. And this Houghton Mifflin edition of The Silmarillion is quite beautiful. A lot of the books on my shelf are somewhat ugly 1960s and 1970s copies I got for 50 cents at the local thrift store, so it’s nice to have some aesthetically pleasing books to make up for it.
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