Postcard: We're in Heaven

Oma in Heaven

"Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are those who need books as wildly as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the book to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to arrange on their shelves, to place by their bedside." —Robertson Davies

Do you like to buy books? There's a wonderful shopping list by the author Italo Calvino— (I'm paraphrasing and editing because it's too long for a blog.) See if you recognize your bookstore habits:

In the shop window you identify the cover with the title you're looking for. You force your way through the shop, past the barricade of Books You Haven't Read, but you're not intimidated. You know that among them are:

1. Books You Needn't Read,
2. Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading,
3. Books You'd Read If You Had More Time. You bypass them, and move into the
   
4. Books You Mean To Read,
   
5. Books You'll Read When They Come Out In Paperback section, and bump into the
   
6. Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You've Read Them,
   
7. Books You Want To Own So They'll Be Handy Just In Case and
   
8. Books You Ought To Get Now So You Can Read Them Next Summer. Suddenly you see
   
9. Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time To Reread and
   
10. Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read And Now It's Time To Really Read Them.
    

Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO

Is there a more pleasant place than a room full of books?"
—Erik Christian Haugaard

Today we'll be at The Tattered Cover in Denver. Wish you were here?

"Some people say life is the thing.
I prefer books."