As I had to wait for the second-hand bookshop to open, I whiled away some time looking in a charity shop, where I picked up a copy of WitW, which is a glaring hole in my reading record. I also popped into Action Records, where I found Belle and Sebastian's latest, an old Beck disc of remixes from his Guero album, and a compilation of Courtney Barnett EPs 🐸🐀📗💿
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Ruthiella I also only first encountered TWitW as an adult, and I really loved it. Hope you do too! 1y
Bookwomble @Ruthiella I've seen many of the film and TV adaptations, so I feel I'm on safe ground 😊 Perhaps we can sometimes have a different or deeper appreciation of a classic children's story when we first find it as an adult 😌 1y
dabbe Glaring hole for me, too! Thanks for the reminder! 😊 1y
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TieDyeDude Nice! The Courtney Barnett EP set is great, I love her music! I've never read WitW either. I don't shy away from children's books as an adult, though. If they're good, it should matter what age you read them at ☺️ 1y
LeahBergen That‘s a great little edition of WitW! 1y
Bookwomble @TieDyeDude I've listened to quite a lot of her music online, but didn't have any in my collection until now. This disc is really good 😊 We're agreed on the longevity of the enjoyment of children's literature 🤝 1y
Bookwomble @LeahBergen It's a 1965 Methuen edition, with Shepherd's illustrations. Only £2, which was a bargain as it's a nice clean copy 😊 I love that shade of green on the dust jacket 💚 1y
bibliothecarivs @Ruthiella Same here! 1y
Bookwomble @dabbe I think we'll all have these idiosyncratic ellipses in our reading, which are as interesting in their way as the books we've read. I'm sure it's an idea that'll have been thought before (probably by Borges), but perhaps this is our "anti-library", and will naturally be vastly larger than our "read-library". 1y
dabbe @Bookwomble Interesting thought and one I'll have to ponder. It is fascinating how we choose books and at what particular time we choose them--or not as the case may be. What makes someone finally pick up THAT book and say, “Now's the time.“ Sometimes that never happens, and the book still sits on that shelf or gets sent off to hopefully be chosen by someone else. #tobechosenornot #thatisthequestion 1y
Bookwomble @dabbe I'm such a mood reader that I've got books I bought over 40 years ago I haven't quite felt I want to read yet, but certainly am not ready to let go of! 😄😒📚 1y
dabbe @Bookwomble Agree 100% ❣️ 14mo