The book tells you a story before you’ve read a word of it. “Charlie Brown on the cover, the title of the book, the sentiment inside – the fact that it’s been given away.”As the curator of Dedicated To…, a blog bringing together poignant or intriguing inscriptions inside secondhand books, Gooderham can’t help but imagine the past lives implied on their inner leaves. Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Everything about it works’ … Wayne Gooderham’s Charlie Brown book. Photograph: Wayne GooderhamBut though he delights in the “secret histories” of the books he finds, Gooderham does not these days write in those he gives himself. God no.”) When Royle comes across those he has written in secondhand shops, “I like to see that they’ve been well-read.

Source: The Guardian January 21, 2020 10:07 UTC