We have a lot of books in our house.
“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary
decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table, framed book
covers, books sorted into stacks on every available surface, and of
course books on shelves along most walls. Besides the visible books,
there are books waiting in the wings, the basement books, the garage
books, the storage locker books...They function as furniture, they prop
up sagging fixtures and disguised by quilts function as tables...I can't
imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to
have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right
one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to
fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.”
―
Louise Erdrich,
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
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