Sponsored by the audiobook edition of Saving Meghan by D. J. Palmer
As soon as you walk in the door, there is a shelf with at least 12 art books: Egon Schiele, Mark Rothko, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Paul Klee. Above that are my most prized books. I have a first-edition signed Toni Morrison “Beloved.” I have Langston Hughes’s “Montage of a Dream Deferred.” I have Claude Brown’s “Manchild in the Promised Land,” first-edition James Baldwins, first-edition Richard Wrights, old black folk-tale books from Julius Lester, Countee Cullen, all kinds of very rare books.
I’m only really careful with the Langston Hughes because it’s so rare and so fragile. Books are to be handled; even though I love them and they are prized possessions, I don’t want to glass-case them. I just can’t see myself hiding things that I consider art.
I love, LOVE, love seeing book lovers shelves. Especially people I admire.
The author took the ending of his final novel to the grave, and to this day, the full plot of The Mystery of Edwin Drood remains mysterious. There was, however, one person he came close to sharing his secret with: Queen Victoria. To the people who knew Dickens, she seemed like the last person he would confide in.
I love stories like this!
Sssso, about that project I’ve been working on… It’s time. 🙂 Welcome to FAR SECTOR. pic.twitter.com/hTFFVELbND
— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) April 10, 2019
I can’t stop looking at this beautiful cover!
Source : Famous Bibliophiles And Their Book Collections! Critical Linking, April 15, 2019
