“«Three dollars » and the scent of Spring”

What could I do with just three dollars? I wondered. Sure, I don’t have a son or a husband, but there’s still a paltry three dollars left.

Through The Mirror

I’d like to get more books from libraries, but I can’t because the book is like a dear friend to me and I can’t put it back on some stranger’s shelf, thinking that maybe they might treat it badly. So I tend to buy them, but the shelves are what they are and sometimes they overflow and while waiting to stock up on new ones I certainly can’t stop reading! Hence, it rarely happens that I borrow titles.

Borrowed books are different from the others, because they carry the past of those who have read them before: whether it is for a crumpled page, or for the slightly deformed paper edges, for a note on the side, for the movie ticket as a bookmark, a coffee stain, a smudge where a crumb has fallen … they reveal something from the previous reader, something intimate …

A loaned book is a…

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“Shameless drama and laughter”

August is one of those months when if you live in the city, you risk going crazy. August is that month so hot that any method is acceptable to cool off: even doing the ice-challenge or a more homemade variant ... Personally, on days too busy to go to the beach and really too hot …

“«Three dollars » and the scent of Spring”

https://youtu.be/JkhX5W7JoWI I'd like to get more books from libraries, but I can't because the book is like a dear friend to me and I can't put it back on some stranger's shelf, thinking that maybe they might treat it badly. So I tend to buy them, but the shelves are what they are and sometimes …