“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! – When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Just posted this on my instagram account and for those wondering I got my totebag from Litemporium
“I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won’t read them soon. At least they are mine now.” —Anais Nin
A novel I love deeply. We have close to ten copies in our flat, in various editions. This one was a gift from a friend who moved away and left us her book collection, and how lovely is it
Once a reading of a book is under way, and we sink into the experience, a performance of a sort begins…
We perform a book-we perform a reading of a book. We perform a book, and we attend the performance.
(As readers, we are both the conductor and the orchestra, as well as the audience.)
— Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read (via booklover)
