Tsundoku (積ん読): The act of acquiring books and letting them pile up unread, implies the promise and possibility that each book holds, waiting to be explored.
When I was a kid my Mom worked at a bookstore and for one summer, with no babysitter I went to work with her every shift, so I’d camp out on the floor of some aisle or walk around just looking at and touching book after book - to this day being in a room filled with books comforts and lifts my spirit in a way I can’t describe… never even have to read em!
When I was a kid my Mom worked at a bookstore and for one summer, with no babysitter I went to work with her every shift, so I’d camp out on the floor of some aisle or walk around just looking at and touching book after book - to this day being in a room filled with books comforts and lifts my spirit in a way I can’t describe… never even have to read em!
that kitchen library (with Camus, no less) will live rent-free in my head until I create my own some day