Friends old and new

    "If you cannot read all your books...fondle them - peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."

    I've taken those lines of Churchill's from Louise Penny's November newsletter; while "arranged" doesn't really apply to the shelves above, I do know where things are, and the mixture of the eagerly anticipated and the already loved is a comforting one - good old friends and attractive new acquaintances, side by side.

Comments

[callmemadam]

Of course, we're all playing 'spot the book', to see what you've got:-)

I'm struck by how new all those books look. Most of mine are old and look it.

[Fran H-B]

Love the quote; like you I can usually lay my hands on what I am looking for, at the same time often noticing a title or two which makes me think, ' I must get to that soon!'