Comments on: Book Ghosts

By: filteany

filteany — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:50:01 +0000

i am so glad i came across your site- its is very interesting. I too had experiences with old books (which literally fill up my 1 bedroom apt). The most perplexing was a book I got from Strand Bookstore. Inside it, I found a love letter to a woman whom the owner wrote too. He talked about Pablo Nerdua’s work and hoped that she would like the book. Alas! I think the romance turned sour thus she had to sell the book.:)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:43:27 +0000

What an awesome post! I can tell you don’t get easily swayed from delectable tasks like packing, by reading all the things you’re packing. I’ve been known to take four days to pack a single bookshelf.

My dad and I both share a love of books and have all kinds of conversations on what we’re reading/we’ve read/we’ve liked, etc. For Christmas this year I asked him to send me a listing of a few books he’s read that he’s enjoyed, and I’ll tell him which ones (if any) I’ve read, and ask him to “surprise” me with one of the ones I haven’t read. He surprised me by sending me his own copy of “Travels with Charlie,” a John Steinbeck somewhat autobiographical account. I was honored.

By: Teoh K H

Teoh K H — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:28:08 +0000

Hi,
I hv the same feel like you. Like all the yellow pages books & their smell.
That why i buy most of the used in some centre.
May be you can also set up online used books store.

By: Mom

Mom — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:08:09 +0000

WOW I guess this book stuff runs in Dad’s family. We still have several old books here of Grandma and Great Grandpa’s You can go thru them when you get here.. A special note I found in Your Great Grandfather’s bible was a hand scribbled note with a time and the diagnosis of leukemia, that was given to your Great Grandmother Rose in the late 1940′s. Very sad indeed. It makes me think they told him over the phone and he wrote it down hastily and then placed it in the bible for strength. Unfortunaly your Great Grandmother died with in that year right before Aunt Amie was born. I guess I know who will be taking all the books..someday… and oh yea about collecting stuff…Books…thats a good one!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:08:53 +0000

Beautiful post, Bims. Older books are indeed ghostly and magical and filled with the
essences of all who read them. I was so excited last night when you came across the letters and notes and was hoping that you would blog in detail about them. Actually, I was certain that you would.

Yes, believe it! Your blog-lurking / list-lurking husband has finally surfaced with a post! Surprised? Yeah, me too.

Trust an old book (or an old husband) to surprise you, huh? I know you love surprises. And I love you!

By: Dad

Dad — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:18:02 +0000

Sarah,
If I remember right (not a sure thing so much any more) Mom played Cello in the orchestra.

She always loved to read, and actually got me into reading Robert Ludlum, Clive Cussler(my favorite to this day), Ken Follett, Sidney Sheldon and even Tom Clancy. It wasn’t unusual for me to stop by her house for a quick visit and come home with a shopping bag full of paperbacks that she had read in the previous 2 weeks. She would get a ride up to Ulbrich’s at the Hamburg Plaza with a friend and buy 10 or 12 books at a time, often coming home with 1 or 2 that she had already read.