in the name of "book"

Loyce 2022-04-12 09:01:11

For a bookworm who doesn't read books unless he buys them, this movie definitely belongs to the "healing department": the kind of happiness shared between book buyers and book seekers, like the happiness of meeting a bosom friend. rather than asking for it. Not to mention the warm correspondence between book buyers and bookstores, book-seekers and their families, and the bland and touching mutual care derived from the medium of "book purchase". How many emotions and deep solace in life are given to each other. Looking at it, it is touching, and it is impossible not to be moved or sighed: all this is in the name of "books", it's so good!

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  • Helene Hanff: Being used to the dead white paper and the stiff cardboardy covers of American books, I never knew a book could be such a joy to the touch.

  • Helene Hanff: [typing] WHAT KIND OF A BLACK PROTESTANT BIBLE IS THIS! Kindly inform the Church of England they have loused up the most beautiful prose even written. Who ever taught Dr. Tindall the Vulgate Latin. They'll burn for it, mark my words. It's nothing to me, I'm Jewish myself, but I have a Catholic sister-in-law, a Methodist sister-in-law, a whole raft of Presbyterian cousins, through my late Uncle Abraham who was converted, and an aunt who's a Christian Science healer. And I'd like to think none of them would countenance an Anglican Latin Bible if they knew it existed. As it happens, they don't know Latin existed.