I spotted two used volumes of Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization: Volume V The Renaissance and Volume VII The Age of Reason Begins at Harvard Book Store while visiting Janice last November, and only took them out to look for something on a few occasions. (I have checked them out from library many times in the past, though.)
I once got Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson from a book sale in the library, even though I already have had one copy for many years. I have two copies of Churchill’s Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat (The Speeches of Winston Churchill); it was only $1.98, I simply couldn't resist not taking it home, even though I do not need it.
I brought a bag of used books home from library last week, costing $2 a bag, and those books are still in the bag. One of the books was A Planet called Earth by George Gamow; Joy, he was the same Gamow in James Watson’s Genes, Girl, and Gamow (the book you bought me) after the Double Helix; the other was James Michener’s Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections.
Janice, I am hoping you haven’t thrown away May 31 the Wall Street Journal (Weekend Journal) yet. Hopefully you didn’t miss the article “The Book Collection that Devoured My Life”. There was a “Letters to the Editor” on the Journal today (June 9)—Not reading the books I collected, I now proclaim myself as “the elite and unruffled ranks of the truly cultured" as the letter said.
