A Book Lover's Diary (x)
1 journaler for this copy...
I got this book as part of a local library program. It's a journal for books. It has a place to write what books you want to get, books you've recieved from people, books borrowed, books loaned, quotes, etc.
My favorite quote is from the first page:
"In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the book shop past the thick barricade of BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T READ, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you...And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of BOOKS THAT IF YOU HAD MORE THEN ONE LIFE YOU WOULD CERTAINLY ALSO READ BUT UNFORTUNATELY YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the BOOKS YOU MEAN TO READ BUT THERE ARE OTHERS YOU MUST READ FIRST, the BOOKS TOO EXPENSIVE NOW AND YOU'LL WAIT TILL THEY'RE REMAINDERED, the BOOKS DITTO WHEN THEY COME OUT IN PAPERBAKC, BOOKS YOU CAN BORROW FROM SOMEBODY, BOOKS THAT EVERYBODY'S READ SO IT'S AS IF YOU HAD READ THEM, TOO." --Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
I think that describes a whole lot of us here!
My favorite quote is from the first page:
"In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the book shop past the thick barricade of BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T READ, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you...And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of BOOKS THAT IF YOU HAD MORE THEN ONE LIFE YOU WOULD CERTAINLY ALSO READ BUT UNFORTUNATELY YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the BOOKS YOU MEAN TO READ BUT THERE ARE OTHERS YOU MUST READ FIRST, the BOOKS TOO EXPENSIVE NOW AND YOU'LL WAIT TILL THEY'RE REMAINDERED, the BOOKS DITTO WHEN THEY COME OUT IN PAPERBAKC, BOOKS YOU CAN BORROW FROM SOMEBODY, BOOKS THAT EVERYBODY'S READ SO IT'S AS IF YOU HAD READ THEM, TOO." --Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
I think that describes a whole lot of us here!