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Friday Slide Show: Bookshelves
30 August 2024
In My Bookshelf, Myself (gift link), Margaret Renkl observes, "I am what I have read far more surely than I am what I have eaten."
She is reflecting on the problem of finding a place for her husband's books after he has retired from his teaching career. There's no room in the house. Hmmm. She'll make room.
It's a very sweet essay that we'll leave for her to tell and you to enjoy at leisure.
But it resonated with us. She points out bookcases are a sort of geology of one's interior life. You see a volume you read 50 years ago and are right back in that moment. You know what followed it and where that lead you.
If you sat among your books for a while, you could tell the whole story of your life starting with the ones you've had the longest.
This slide show of a few of our books will mean little to you, consequently. But it's a record we don't mind making.
The knickknacks and pictures that obscure a few of the titles only add to the story. Which we could go on and on about. Because, well, it's about us.
But as an inspiration, a suggestion, we thought these images might work.
They may inspire you to revisit a few of your old books, to move them from a small bookcase demurely tucked in the corner of an unvisited room to some more prominent place. You'll find they tell your story and want them out there with the family portraits to remind you where you came from.
A book read is something to be proud of, after all.
