When you move both your boys out of their flat on the SAME day and into a shared flat together and you move two double mattresses and two pianos and two cricket bags and all their furniture and they finally love you for being a Dad with an old Volvo
I love second hand books. They are books that breath, that have lived, in other places & other times. You sometimes find the name or marginalia notes or even laundry receipts of those who owned them before. Who were they? Secondhand books and secondhand bookshops are a special pleasure. They have a past