June 2011
93 posts
House collapsing under weight of rescued books →
bibliofeminista:
A Canadian woman’s house is collapsing under the weight of the 350,000 books she rescued from a neighbour who was planning to burn them after her bibliophile husband died.
Shaunna Raycraft, from Pike Lake, Saskatchewan, stepped in when her widowed neighbour began to burn her husband’s collection of books. “There was a house floor-to-ceiling with books. He was the collector;...
“Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean,...”
– Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (via b00kworm77)
I need to re-read A Million Miles In A Thousand Years
