Dear readers,Technically I have a rule that for every book I bring into the house, I must donate one elsewhere. Naturally I have no business frequenting my library’s biannual book sale, but frequent it I do. (A side note: Almost all cookbooks at sales like this are fascinating, especially the kind self-published by church groups and clubs. I leaf through all of them, noting with interest which pages are dog-eared, stiff with dried batter — or, more interestingly, annotated. But the best finds are the tattered paperbacks, the fiction I have never read and didn’t know I needed.

Source: New York Times June 03, 2023 19:22 UTC