TheBanyanTree: Reading

[Indiglow]

But the thing with a superior intellect is that one doesn't have to show it
off.

Or just maybe one can't help but "show it off" if that means thinking what you think, knowing what you know, reading what you read, being who you are.
Hugs,
J
 

Or so I'm guessing, were I to have one.


Monique Colver




On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:18 PM, auntiesash <auntiesash at gmail.com> wrote:

> I dunno.  I have a couple of really beautiful old books that I will never
> read and think are lovely, so those are just decorations.  Some end papers
> are stunning, and the embossing or color choices are amazing.  I think
> books
> can be incredibly decorative.  That's not why I buy books and, when you
> have
> heaps and stacks of them, they may lose their decorative advantage, but if
> people wanna buy books cause they are pretty, I don't see anything wrong
> with that.  I bet the books' authors and publishers are ok with it too.
>
> And maybe, if they don't read the books, someone else will wander through
> and read them??
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Laura <wolfljsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Monique Colver <
> monique.colver at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > She told me once that people who "decorated
> > > with books" were . . . I don't remember exactly, but it had something
> to
> > do
> > > with being gauche and unfit for society. This after she'd visited my
> > house,
> > > which had bookshelves in, of all places, the living room. I never
> > > considered
> > > it "decorating with books," I thought it was "having books," and they
> had
> > > to
> > > go somewhere, didn't they?
> > >
> >
> > I must say, I agree with your stepmother.  People who buy books to
> decorate
> > with are gauche.  People who buy bookshelves to store their books are not
> > gauche.  I have ... good grief, I don't even *know* how many shelves full
> > of
> > books I have!  But I don't decorate with them, they are storage units.
>  In
> > fact, I'm pretty sure nobody would accuse my piles of mis-matched,
> > non-colour coordinated, shelved by genre, books, of being decorative.  :)
> >
> > --
> > Laura
> > wolfljsh at gmail.com
> > wolfsinger at insightbb.com
> >
>
>
>