In Your Good Books

Got any volumes you find particularly precious?

There are a lot of reasons why I’m not a book nerd. Money, for one thing. To really do the thing right, you have to be willing and able to bid up. But most of my life I’ve been poor, able to have things I wanted only because I could get them cheap, or else rearranging my wants to coincide with my poverty (“Tell them that you know that your shoes are bro…