Posts Tagged: buying books

Anatole Broyard

“The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.”   – Anatole Broyard (This makes me glad that I am a compulsive book buyer – imagine if you didn’t have a bookcase in your house,

Anatole Broyard

“The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.”   – Anatole Broyard (This makes me glad that I am a compulsive book buyer – imagine if you didn’t have a bookcase in your house,

Alain de Botton on buying books

How needlessly mean to buy only as many books as one actually has time to read. –  Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton on buying books

How needlessly mean to buy only as many books as one actually has time to read. –  Alain de Botton

On Cheating

I’m cheating. Cheating on my ‘1001 Children’s Books I Must Read Before I Grow Up’ list, that is. As much as I love pretty much all the books I have read from the list so far, I have this problem

On Cheating

I’m cheating. Cheating on my ‘1001 Children’s Books I Must Read Before I Grow Up’ list, that is. As much as I love pretty much all the books I have read from the list so far, I have this problem