aww, 200 books gone
i had to do get rid of my collection too and it was heartbreaking, i had some beautiful old books.
i made alot of money selling them but i still get a pang and want to read some of my old favs.
i had this really cool copy of the monkey king myth with all these crazy prints in it and Faust
with beautiful heavy binding with the most stunning art that made me want to read it by
candle light for some reason. i only have paperback copies now, and haven't collected any
good quality books for ages. when i lived with my ex wife i used to go to this second hand
bookshop every week, the owner used to keep aside all the exotic books that he picked up
and he would show me the new ones each week n have a coffee. the place smelled like
cheap incense, dust and that beautiful old book smell.
i really miss collecting them, if you ever go into a good secondhand bookshop talk to the
owner, the amount of stories the owner used to tell me were awesome, he must have read
every book worth reading in his shop, he introduced me to books, concepts n ideas that i
would never have come close to understanding without our chats, he was so passionate
about literature that it was infectious and i always left feeling exited to rush off and read
the books he switched me on to.
gah, i was only going to say that i used to collect books, i haven't thought of him in ages.
i like book people