What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Erurávennë]

I recently read Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It was odd how I kept prefacing it with "The" but there is no "the". Yes there are lots of names of people and places and I found myself referring many times to the maps. I did find some of Lawrence's philosophising passages hard to follow but his strong intention to minimise casualties comes across well and his descriptions of the landscape are quite beautiful. I would have liked my edition to have some modern colour photos of the landscape as well as the rather grainy photos from the period. The book is quite different from the film which is more hyped up and has some important inaccuracies - most of the time they were blowing up the Hejaz railway and its bridges rather than engaging in pitch battles.

Woah, everybody seems to be reading this! 😅

 

[Deimos]

Yes, it cracked me up because it was so spot on! Besides the wording. The picture in my mind of someone (such as myself 🤫) doing it was so vivid.

At my house, there are books coming of our ears. My mom frequently comes home from the library bookstore where all the books are 50 cents to two dollars. She wants a library room!

I love your books there. 😄

Early on so many of my books came from "book fairs" , and way back then (in the 60s and 70s when I was still in grade school and high school) even hardbacks were about 50c to $1.
I still have some of those. But many finally got so battered (and they weren't in great condition to begin with) I had to replace them.
I was employed by then and able to find replacements in pretty good condition at 2nd hand book stores and now on ebay and at sites like ABE and Alibris and [sometimes] Amazon.
I typically do not buy new books... buying new books is like buying a new car... depreciation occurs rapidly in the first year, or maybe two years.
Just wait a bit and you can often find them in very good condition for a song.