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While walk­ing through the Wilkin­son Center today on my way to print up some stuff, I caught sight of tables and tables of books in the Garden Court. My wallet is thin as it is, but I couldn’t help myself. And I’m glad I did: for $12, I got John Maxwell Hamilton’s Casanova Was a Book Lover, Ronald B. Shwartz’s For the Love of Books, and a nice hard­cover edi­tion of Tolkien’s The Sil­mar­il­lion. ‘Tis a good day. :) I really like read­ing about books, per­haps more than any other sub­ject. It’s kind of like read­ing about one’s friends and loved ones, in a way. And this Houghton Mif­flin edi­tion of The Sil­mar­il­lion is quite beau­ti­ful. A lot of the books on my shelf are some­what ugly 1960s and 1970s copies I got for 50 cents at the local thrift store, so it’s nice to have some aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing books to make up for it.

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