the books we keep Walking past the bookcase, you run your fingers along the spines of old-book friends. You pull one off the shelf and page through it slowly — reading a snippet here, pausing over a sentence there, and drinking in the familiar illustrations....
once a book nerd … Reading has always been a private thing. For some people, it still is — something done quietly, without explanation, and without needing to be turned into something useful. It’s simply time spent sitting with words, images, or familiar...
