TheBanyanTree: Reading-old books for decoration

[smack58 at nycap.rr.com]

I do, too.  I found them in a library book sale and they are dated 1920, 1934 and 1939.  One is from the "Colonel's Series".  It was made into a movie that Shirley Temple starred in.  No, I won't read them, but I will pass them down to my daughters and/or granddaughters for their beauty.  Maybe they will read them.

I just sent two atlas's to my grandson dated 1924 and 1919.  He LOVED them and noted that they did not have Israel on them.  I told them because Israel did not exist then as a state/country.  We had a wonderful chat on how Israel came to be and win their place in the world.

You just never know where books will lead you...

Sharon
---- 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
>



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