Used to be a bookseller*…

Now I'm a (Little) Librarian.

Initially thin on fiction, I squeezed in Stegner and Updike. More waiting in the wings...

  

• “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles W. Eliot (on his birthday)
• “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." --Carl Sagan, Cosmos: The Persistence of Memory (1980)
• “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”And, “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ― Groucho Marx
• “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
• ~"The person who does not read possesses no advantage over one who cannot." --(probably not) Mark Twain

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*Mills Bookstores, Nashville-Hillsboro Village, Belle Meade, Brentwood, mid-'80s. Davis-Kidd Booksellers, Nashville, early '90s. And before that, the Columbia MO bookstore that used to be in the Mall on Stadium Blvd...