It was ugly, but then ugly objects as a general rule are the bravest.

“The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who w…”

“I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but…”

“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps w…”

“Die Bücher, die wie auf unserem ersten Bücherregal als Erwachsene stehen haben,…”