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My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.
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shelves
parents
bookshelves
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Anne Fadiman |
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The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.
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writer
desk
shelves
study
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Alberto Manguel |
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"They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in." Brian nudged the girls until they obeyed.
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chapter-headings
exciting
hawthrone
oliver-wendell-holmes
paul-revere
thick
bookstore
longfellow
book
shelves
notes
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Caroline B. Cooney |